Investigate the benefits and challenges of adopting the DevOps culture

Companies follow different approaches in the life cycle of software, but usually, activities are divided into different teams, the most important teams are the development team and the operations team. Often the goals of the operations team and the development team are different, which results in an escalating relationship between the two teams, and a conflict occurs between teams due to the blame of responsibility on each other, which in turn leads to long delivery periods and ineffective delivery methods. To solve these problems, the DevOps approach emerged, which is an acronym for the two words development and operations. This approach aims to align both the development team and the operations team and break the barriers between them by working as one team toward a single goal that shares everyone the responsibility. Thus, the speed of the program delivery process increases and the company provides better services to its customers. Since DevOps is a new approach and many companies tend to adopt this approach, this study aims to investigate the benefits of the DevOps approach and the challenges involved in adopting this approach. This study summarized that the adoption of DevOps approach has an impact on the companies in several aspects. The research presents the most important challenges that the DevOps attempts to overcome, DevOps tools that helps to achieve the value of DevOps, and the benefits of the DevOps approach.