DevOps Lifecycle
🌐 Overview
The DevOps lifecycle integrates software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) to
shorten the development lifecycle while delivering high-quality software continuously.
Below are the 8 key phases with popular tools and documentation links.
✅ 1. Plan
**Goal:** Define project scope, requirements, tasks, and sprints.
**Popular Tools:**
- Jira: Agile project management and issue tracking.
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- Trello: Visual Kanban boards for small projects.
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- Confluence: Team documentation and planning wiki.
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- GitHub Projects: Kanban-style task boards within GitHub.
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✅ 2. Develop
**Goal:** Write, review, and version-control the code.
**Popular Tools:**
- VS Code: Lightweight code editor with extensions.
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- IntelliJ / Eclipse: IDEs for Java and other languages.
- Git: Version control system.
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- GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket: Code hosting and collaboration.
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✅ 3. Build
**Goal:** Compile source code into executable artifacts.
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- Maven: Java build automation tool.
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- Gradle: Flexible build automation for Java/Groovy.
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- npm / Webpack: JavaScript package and build managers.
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✅ 4. Test
**Goal:** Ensure quality through automated testing.
**Popular Tools:**
- JUnit / TestNG: Java unit testing frameworks.
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- Selenium / Cypress: Browser UI automation.
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- Postman: API testing.
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- PyTest: Python unit testing.
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- SonarQube: Static code analysis and quality check.
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✅ 5. Release
**Goal:** Automate integration and delivery.
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- Jenkins: Open-source CI/CD tool.
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- GitLab CI/CD: Built-in pipelines in GitLab.
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- CircleCI / Travis CI / Azure Pipelines: CI/CD as a service.
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✅ 6. Deploy
**Goal:** Deliver applications to staging/production.
**Popular Tools:**
- Docker: Package and deploy apps in containers.
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- Kubernetes: Container orchestration.
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- Helm: Kubernetes package manager.
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- Terraform: Infrastructure as Code.
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- AWS CodeDeploy / Azure Release Pipelines
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✅ 7. Operate
**Goal:** Ensure smooth runtime operations.
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- Docker / Kubernetes
- Ansible / Chef / Puppet: Configuration management.
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- AWS ECS / EKS, Azure AKS: Managed container services.
✅ 8. Monitor
**Goal:** Track health, performance, errors, and alerts.
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- Prometheus: Time-series metrics collection.
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- Grafana: Dashboards and visualizations.
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- ELK Stack: Logging and search.
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- Datadog / New Relic / Splunk / Nagios: Full-stack monitoring platforms.
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