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title: "DevOps"
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# DevOps

DevOps is the term for the union of the development team and the IT operations
team, through the use of a specific set of practices and toolchains. Rather than
having the development and operations team handle their own specific
responsibilities independently of one another, the two teams should work
together. This is both a cultural change and a technology change, with the
ultimate goal of drastically shortening the amount of time it takes the team to
deliver software. The result is more frequent software deployments, deploying
bad updates less frequently, and being able to recover from bad updates faster.
CI/CD is a core concept of DevOps.