Time to read: 3 minutes, 30 seconds | Published: October 28, 2025
DevOps What is DevOps?
DevOps is an IT best practices methodology that brings developers and operations together to rapidly develop and deliver new software features and services. The DevOps approach enables teams to collaborate and accelerate the development-to-deployment process while continuing to improve quality, security and reliability.
What are the benefits of DevOps?
What are the benefits of DevOps?
Organizations implementing DevOps methodology can expect these benefits:
- Higher customer satisfaction, value, and ROI
- Decreased costs for development and operation
- Better quality and more time to innovate on delivered products and services. According to the 2017 State of DevOps Report, high-performing organizations spent 21% less time on unplanned work and rework, and as a result, were able to spend 44% more time on new work, such as developing new features or code.
- Shorter development (with automation) and feedback cycles leading to a quicker time-to-market
- Increased communication and collaboration, creating a performance-oriented culture
Security, DevOps, and the future
Today, security must be ingrained everywhere—in the protocols, systems, elements, and in the business surrounding the network. Just securing the network perimeter with firewalls no longer provides adequate network protection. Companies must consider building security earlier into coding, architecture, and pre-production systems. With DevSecOps (security merged with DevOps), automation can seamlessly build and embed security throughout the DevOps lifecycle without slowing down speed or agility.
According to the 2017 State of DevOps Report, the percentage of people working on DevOps teams has been increasing each year. In 2014, 16% of respondents worked on DevOps teams, and by 2017, the percentage grew to 27%. DevOps is a multifaceted and constantly evolving methodology. In hybrid and multicloud environments, DevOps will be crucial for data centers underpinning the cloud, transport, IoT (Internet of Things), mobile, and other secure networks. As you consider how to implement DevOps and automation, HPE Juniper Networking can assist you with joining network security, tooling, and policy across the multicloud.
FAQs
What is the main goal of DevOps?
DevOps primarily removes the barriers between traditionally siloed development and operations teams. DevOps promotes collaboration and integration between these groups throughout the entire software lifecycle, increasing the speed and quality of software development.
What problems does DevOps solve?
Organizations that practice DevOps achieve higher efficiency, quicker time to market, and better mean time to recovery with their software development efforts. They ship software faster and with higher quality and stability, which leads to improvements in customer satisfaction, value, and ROI.
What are DevOps best practices?
Among DevOps best practices are building a collaborative culture, implementing continuous integration and development, adopting agile methodologies, using suitable automation tools, switching to a microservices architecture, and continuous performance monitoring.
Is DevOps an agile methodology?
DevOps can be considered a descendant of agile methodology as it incorporates its principles and practices. However, agile stops short of operations, placing emphasis on collaboration between developers and product management. DevOps, on the other hand, focuses on the integration of developers and the operations team. DevOps and agile methodologies aren’t mutually exclusive, though, as they both promote the speed and quality of software development.
What DevOps products does HPE Juniper Networking offer?
Juniper Cloud-Native Contrail Networking (CN2) is a software-defined networking (SDN) platform that automates the creation and management of virtual networks. It delivers infrastructure as code, a DevOps tenet, to achieve software quality at hyperscaler efficiency and speed. It's tested, qualified, and deployed using project Argo-based CN2 with Pipelines, a GitOps and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) model for NetOps to deliver reliability engineering at hyperscaler speed.