> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://blog.kloudops.pro/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # What is DevOps? - URL: https://blog.kloudops.pro/what-is-devops/ - Published: 2025-09-25T10:32:34.000Z - Updated: 2026-03-15T13:07:52.000Z - Author: Kloudops Pro - Tags: DevOps, #Import 2026-10-20 16:39 DevOps is actually not a role, but a practice. By adhering DevOps practices, a team can achieve many benefits. Increasing the velocity of deployments, in other words reduce the time taking to deploy changes to production is the main benefit. And also it bridge the gap between traditional development teams and operational teams. ## So.. What was the issue with traditional teams? ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/d2/5f/d25fda85-4ca3-41fe-a9ba-d6a6b8e486a4/content/images/2025/09/Dev-and-Ops.jpeg) Well.. The issue with the traditional development and operations teams was the goal. While developers want to push frequent changes to production, Operations team want the reliability of the system. No one can blame each other as both teams are correct from their goals perspective. Development team's main goal is to add new features to the app while operations team's goal is to run the app smoothly without any interruptions to the users. ## Then what is the solution for this issue? As a solution for this issue a new concept called "**DevOps"** was introduced a long time ago. Teams which follows the DevOps principles include members from both the Dev and Ops teams. Basically ops team members attend the sprint planning, stand-ups of the Dev team so everyone aligned with the same goal. There are many approaches, agile is one of them. Everyone's goal is to perform smooth delivery of software systems to production. To achieve this, automating the processes is a key point. And it's the core of the DevOps practice. So keep in mind, DevOps is not a tool, It's a concept or a practice. You need some tools to implement it across the team. ## What are the common tools that teams use? There are different areas that should consider when it comes to tools. You need to have a good understanding about **Software Development Life cycle** or **SDLC**. These tools are basically introduced to automate the each steps. With enhancing these steps, a new life cycle is introduced called "DevOps Life cycle". No big deal. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/d2/5f/d25fda85-4ca3-41fe-a9ba-d6a6b8e486a4/content/images/2025/09/image-3.png) [Image from](https://www.ryadel.com/en/devops-methodology-lifecycle-best-practices-explained/?ref=blog.kloudops.pro) **Plan:** This phase you gather the requirements, having meetings, finalize the features. **Code:** Developers get the requirements and start work on actual development work. code editors such as VS code and version control systems like Git are common tool use in this phase. **Build:** Code is packaged with necessary dependencies and libraries. in this phase code is tested in order to integrate with main code base. Gradle, Maven are common tools used in this phase. **Test**: Code is tested to make sure it's reliable and secure. Selenium, SonarQube are test utilities that are commonly used in this phase. **Release**: Once the code is tested and passed, it will be integrated with the main code base, and packaged (Build) in order to deploy in an environment. Jenkins, TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket are common tools that used in this phase. **Deploy**: Tested package is delivered to each environment by this phase. Which starting from lower environment to Prod environment. Docker, Helm, Ansible, Puppet are common tools widely use in this phase. **Operate**: Code is available for the users in the live environment. There is a dedicated team to manage the operations. Common tools are Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS **Monitor**: Live environments are monitored. If there is issue, operational team acts proactively to remediate the issue or if it is related to code contact Dev team. Monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios, Cloudwatch, Elastic are common examples. ## Okay.. What DevOps professionals actually need to learn? Actually there are many tools available in the market which helps to enable DevOps practices in a team. Tech-stack is completely depends on the organization goal. Based on the experience, below things are the common skills/knowledge that a "DevOps Engineer"should have. 1. **Basic Linux and networking:** This is the foundation for almost everything in the DevOps. So before moving with other tools, You MUST get familiar with linux and basic networking. 2. **CI/CD pipelines**: DevOps is built around automation. So learning a CI/CD tool is a MUST. 3. **Containerization**: Most of the modern applications are deployed as containers. You need to have a solid understanding on containerization technologies. 4. **Cloud/Infrastructure**: All these tools are nothing without a infrastructure. Modern trend is to deploy apps in cloud because of many reasons such as low operational cost, pay-as-you-go model etc. 5. **Container orchestration**: Since most modern applications are container based, it is important to understand about container orchestration tools. 6. **Infrastructure as Code (IaC)**: You can't always create infrastructure resources manually. It's not recommended. So you need to learn a IaC tool. 7. **Monitoring and Observability**: It's very important to continuously monitor the live environments. Hence having a knowledge in monitoring is a MUST. 8. **Scripting**: As a DevOps engineer you may need to automate your day-to-day tasks. Hence having a knowledge in scripting language is an added advantage. 9. **Version control**: Version control plays a major role in DevOps life cycle. Hence it is a important knowledge. There are many, but at least having knowledge in above areas helps you to get in to a DevOps job or excel in the job. Don't get frustrated with all these tools and technologies. Start small. There is nothing succeeded overnight. It takes time to be an expert. And also don't rely on tools, try to understand the concepts behind tools. What problems that tools use to resolve. Always try to have a strong foundation with basics. Cheers!