DevOps practices

Historically, software engineers would delegate management, coordination, and execution of releases to operators. The practice of DevOps brought those practices together, primarily through continuous learning and the use of automation. Summarizing DevOps can be challenging, given it spans a set of practices and technologies that enable that practice. At a high level, it manages operations in code through configuration and scripts. Both development and operations teams can perpetually learn from issues that arise and update code based on that knowledge. This philosophy promotes consistency, given the same code is used repeatedly to perform the same actions on repeat.

Drupal best practices have evolved as DevOps has become more emergent. DevOps for Drupal applications closely align with events found in GitOps, practices tied to continuous integration, and the desire to have repeatable and frequent code deployments. Developer workflows often create new branches, review...