The adoption of DevOps suits organizations' need to release applications faster, minimizing the bugs and risks associated with delivering software to production. As part of this process, we need to increase the number of automated processes for testing an application, and it's highly recommended that we remove manual processes to avoid human interaction, which can lead us to create errors.

A couple of such processes that could be automated are the environment configuration and deployment processes. Let's look at the improvements to the SDLC:

However, there are several problems that we must handle in order to deliver software faster. First of all, we need to embrace a culture of automation. A culture of automation forces us to use many tools that we are going to introduce in the next section, and we need to understand that DevOps has become an essential part of our process because of the rise of microservices with more complex and distributed systems. However, don't forget that the main goal of DevOps is collaboration, not just automation.