Devops is primarily associated with the collaboration between developers and operations to improve the delivery and reliability of applications in production. The most common best practices aim to replace manual, error-prone procedures managed at the boundaries between dev and ops teams with more robust automations. These include automating the delivery pipeline with CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery), standardizing configurations with containers, and configuring infrastructure as code. On the ops side, devops best practices to improve application reliability include improving apps’ observability, increasing monitoring, and automating cloud and infrastructure operations.
