DevOps: A Historical Review and Future Works

DevOps is an emerging practice to be followed in the Software Development life cycle. The name DevOps indicates that it's an integration of the Development and Operations team. It is followed to integrate the various stages of the development lifecycle. DevOps is an extended version of the existing Agile method. DevOps aims at Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Improvement, faster Feedback and Security. This paper reviews the building blocks of DevOps, challenges in adopting DevOps, Models to improve DevOps practices and Future works on DevOps.