EveryDay DevOps

As a DevOps Engineer, you are measured by your team’s ability to deliver software to users. To accomplish this, you must provide a working environment that makes your team as efficient as possible. This combination of processes and tooling removes barriers to creating, deploying, and debugging the software. This allows your team to deliver new features to users, gather their feedback, and fix bugs.

DevOps Loop: All the Steps

The DevOps loop—commonly visualized as an infinity loop—represents the continuous and iterative cycle of software development and IT operations. It emphasizes collaboration, automation, and feedback. Here are the key steps involved:

Development Side

1. Plan

Define business requirements, user stories, and tasks. Common tools: Jira, Azure Boards.

2. Develop

Write and manage code collaboratively using version control tools like Git.

3. Build

Compile the code and create build artifacts using CI tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.

4. Test

Run automated tests (unit, integration, etc.) to ensure quality and correctness.

Operations Side

5. Release

Approve and promote builds to staging or production environments using release pipelines.

6. Deploy

Roll out updates to users using tools like Kubernetes, AWS ECS, or serverless platforms.

7. Operate

Ensure performance, availability, and reliability of applications. Maintain and manage infrastructure.

8. Monitor

Collect logs, metrics, and traces. Analyze user behavior and system health using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.

Continuous Feedback

Feedback from monitoring, users, and tests flows back into the planning phase, enabling continuous improvement and rapid iteration.