By embracing DevOps, you will reap many benefits, the first one being that Dev and Ops are brought closer together. Busting silos inside your company can free you from the daily squabbles between Dev and Ops, and help everyone be more effective. With DevOps also come several other benefits, such as traceability of deployments, reliability, and speed.

Usually, adopters of DevOps want to continuously release their services, applications, or infrastructure from development through user acceptance testing and quality assurance, and into production. This is also known as continuous delivery or continuous deployment, which we will have a look at later on.