I don’t quite understand how devops is different from software development. They’re closely related, but I’m just kinda stupid. Please explain it to me
In: Engineering
Software engineering is at the core of a Devops engineer’s responsibilities but are not limited to strictly pushing code and innovating / releasing products, although this is typically viewed as the highest revenue generating function.
DevOps engineers work on code with developer team, oversee tests / releases and manages the deployment and operation processes across production. Often Devops engineers even manage and integrating security into the development lifecycle and become DevSecOps engineers.
In theory a Devops engineer would be leading the software development program as a core responsibility, but in a smaller organization they likely also are managing their cloud deployment, security and compliance controls, owning access / admin rights for automation tools, monitoring site reliability with SRE, and ultimately working to improve a frictionless development process.
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