Citation:

Dharmendra Ahuja, 2022. "Principles and Practices of DevOps for Scalable Software Delivery and Automation", ESP Journal of Engineering & Technology Advancements 2(2): 192-201.

Abstract:

DevOps has developed into a game changer in the context of software delivery with automatic, scalable, and reliable delivery practices through the combination of development, operations, and security. This work provides a review of the main principles and tools of DevOps and the practices applicable to continuously integrating, continually delivering, and automating the infrastructure. It explores the automation, measurement, and sharing concepts as the foundational ones, as well as such enablers as CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and containerization. The study also examines how it has progressed to DevSecOps with the need to consider security controls as part of automated pipelines in order to ensure that vulnerabilities are identified in early stages and addressed. Also, the cloud-native DevOps to the attainment of scalability, high availability, auto-scaling, load balancing, and fault tolerance is discussed. AIs and ML-based DevOps automation are also mentioned, with a focus on intelligent pipeline optimization and predictive monitoring. In general, the review summarizes the advantages, issues, and best practices, which is an important contribution to organizations that embrace DevOps as a means of contemporary and cloud-native software systems.

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Keywords:

Continuous Delivery, Intelligent Automation, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud Computing, DevSecOps, CI/CD Pipelines.