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What are the Differences Between DevOps and Agile?

People are often confused by DevOps and Agile in the software development industry.

You may have a lot of questions such as:

How are DevOps and Agile methodologies different?
Is one more secure?

Which one should I use? (Just one or both)?
This infographic will break it down and simplify it for you.
Let’s start by understanding each one separately.

What is Agile?

This methodology takes an iterative and incremental approach to development.

Involves producing release cycles on a continuous basis.

Breaks the software down into small functional deliverables for customer approval
Addresses the gaps in communication between customer and developer.

Small and rapid releases, customer feedback, and collaboration are the focus of this model.

Aims to bring agility to development.

What is DevOps?

This approach to operations focuses on communication, collaboration, integration, and deployment.

Promotes collaboration between operations and development to deploy releases to various environments.

Automation, continuous feedback, discipline, and process development are the highlights of this model.

Development teams make small but frequent updates to the production software which are often automatically deployed to environments

Aims to bring agility to operations and deployments.

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