Imagine that you and your friend (Iva) are going to a baking competition.

During the competition, You both are given multiple needed products to make a cake. With the given products You and Iva started making a cake.

After trying 3 to 4 times, you got up with a perfect cake.🍰

This is what a group of Developers do, They develop an application or software. This comes under the process of SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (Dev).💻

Developing software involves gathering ingredients (code, resources), following a recipe (software requirements), and iterating (doing it again and again) until you get it right.

Later, Another team joins you and Iva. They both introduce themselves as Alex and Max.

They join the team to perform design operations to ensure processes such as

🪄 Keeping an eye on the oven temperature, baking time, and overall progress.

🪄 They’ll arrange the cake on a platter, add decorations, and ensure it’s presented beautifully for judging or serving to guests.

🪄 They ensure that everything is running smoothly and make adjustments if necessary to avoid any mishaps or burning the cake.

This is what the Operations team does, They perform a few IT operations (Ops) and manage certain things that are necessary to build a fully functional software or an application.

Alex and Max’s role in ensuring smooth operations during the baking process corresponds to operations teams in software development. They monitor the environment (oven temperature), ensure everything runs smoothly (baking time), and present the final product beautifully (deployment and presentation of the software).

Suddenly, while preparing the cake few mistakes may happen. To solve this you and your team make some adjustments to the recipe, so your cake still turns out delicious.

Similarly, The Development team and Operations team can make adjustments to the software.

This is where the integration of development and operations comes into play.

In the baking analogy, this is like adjusting the recipe or making changes to the baking process if something goes wrong. DevOps in software development involves using tools like version control systems (e.g. Git) to manage changes and ensure collaboration between development and operations teams seamlessly.

🎯Dev + Ops = DevOps 👨🏽‍💻

Hope The above example helps you to understand “What is DevOps?”

This is one of the easiest examples I came across.

Wishing You a fantastic day ahead! 🌟