This chapter is going to cover various topics related to the DevOps world. We are going to look at DevOps in the context of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), as automation and DevOps play an important role in this area. We will be integrating our system with monitoring solutions to collect various metrics to improve our services. This chapter will cover recent trends in this domain and give an idea about the expanding market of DaaS providers. We will also provide a brief introduction to various topics related to DaaS.

We are going to cover the following topics in this chapter. This should give us an idea about what exactly DevOps means to the agile world:

• What is DaaS?
• One-click deployments and rollback
• Configuring automated alerts
• Centralized log management
• Infrastructure security
• Continuous process and infrastructure development
• Continuous integration and continuous development
• Collaboration with development and QA teams