What Is the Difference between DevOps and Agile?
Agile and DevOps
methodology has transformed the way how a business develops and delivers a quality
product to end-user. These methodologies have brought developers and testers
together and have brought a major cultural shift in organizations. Not only
these practices have improved the culture of organizations but also have helped
teams to deliver high-quality product faster to end-users. In this article, we
will see what exactly is DevOps and agile, and how these methodologies are
different from each other.
Body:
What
is agile methodology?
It is a practice that promotes continuous
iteration of development and testing throughout the software development
lifecycle. In this methodology, both development and testing activities occur
concurrently unlike waterfall methodology where testing is done only after the
development is complete.
It is an evolution from agile methodology
and is an enterprise software development approach that emphasizes
collaboration and communication between cross-functional teams. This
methodology aims to break traditional silos that existed earlier between
cross-functional teams in the waterfall model. This methodology involves
continuous development, continuous integration, continuous testing, and
continuous delivery of software.
What is the difference between DevOps and
Agile?
|
Point of
difference |
DevOps |
Agile |
|
Definition |
It is a cultural shift that
brings developers and IT operations teams together to improve the SDLC
process. It uses CI/CD tools to ensure frequent integration, testing, and
delivery of the software
|
It is a software development approach that emphasizes
concurrent development and testing of software. It focuses on customer
feedbacks, iterations or changes, small and rapid releases |
|
Primary Purpose |
Its primary purpose is to break
traditional silos that existed earlier between cross-functional teams and to encourage them to work in close
collaboration with each other by enabling continuous integration and continuous delivery
|
Its primary purpose is to help teams to manage complex projects easily by involving
customer in the SDLC process so that they can give feedback and suggestion to
developers and testers |
|
Lifecycle Phases /process flow |
The agile process flow includes
– Concept, Inception, Iteration/construction, Release, Production, Retirement |
DevOps lifecycle phases include- Continuous Development, Continuous
Integration, Continuous Testing, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Monitoring |
|
Teams |
Agile focuses on keeping small
teams with minimum people in one team to speed up the process
|
In DevOps, team size is
relatively big as it combines cross-functional teams into one team
|
|
Tools |
Jira, Kanboard, Bugzilla are
some of the commonly used agile tools
|
Git, Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, are
some of the commonly used DevOps tools |
|
Feedback |
In Agile, feedback comes from
customers directly
|
In DevOps, feedback comes from
internal teams |
Conclusion: Agile and
DevOps methodology has helped teams all across the globe to deliver value to
end-user. Agile methodology focuses on keeping teams small and making rapid changes to roll
out products that deliver maximum value to customers whereas on other hand DevOps aims at breaking barriers between the team and allows them to work in
close collaboration with each other to deliver products quickly without
compromising on its quality. Many organizations have benefited by adopting
these methodologies.
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