The two very popular software development methodologies are DevOps and Agile. They both work for a similar aim that is getting the end-product as quickly and efficiently as possible. Currently, many organizations are aligning to these practices, but there is often some confusion between both methodologies.

What does each methodology enclose? Where do they overlap? Can they work together, or should one be chosen over the other?

Let us take a glance at DevOps and Agile.

What is DevOps?

DevOps, as we read above in the DevOps tutorial, is a combination of two words, one is Software Development, and the second is Operations. DevOps enables a single team to handle the entire application lifecycle, from development to testing, deployment, and operations. The development team and operations team work in close collaboration to reduce the disconnection between software developers, quality assurance (QA) engineers, and system administrators.

It enables and accelerates the deployment of code to production faster in an automated & repeatable way.

DevOps accelerates organization speed to deliver applications and services allowing organizations to serve their customers better and compete more strongly in the market.

Currently, DevOps has become one of the most valuable and reliable business disciplines for enterprises or organizations. The principles of DevOps enables, quality, and speed of the application delivery has improved to a great extent.

What is Agile?

Agile is a process that involves a continuous iteration of development and testing. In the waterfall model first, the development is finished and after that test activities are picked up, unlike that in agile both development and testing activities run simultaneously. This methodology emphasizes incremental, iterative, and evolutionary development.

The product requirements are broken into small user stories and all are then integrated for final testing. Kanban, XP, Scrum, etc are few ways in which Agile can be implemented.