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Defining DevOps

Defining DevOps

- How do you define DevOps and what does DevOps mean to you? - This may be one of the earlier questions you get in your interview because it sets the tone for the rest of the discussion. Your understanding of DevOps and its core ties into the parts that make up DevOps as a whole. The best approach to answering this question is to use the definition method. Fortunately, the forefathers of DevOps gave us a great acronym to use when defining DevOps CAMS or cams, which stands for Culture, Automation, Measurement, and Sharing. Try to remember this acronym and use the parts that make it up to round out your answer. Culture is a result of the way that teams interact. In DevOps culture, the aim is to have development and operations teams interact in a way that breaks down barriers between the teams and with a clear focus on the roles and responsibilities of each. With both teams working towards a common goal, everyone wins.…

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