From the course: Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) v1.1 (200-301) Cert Prep

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The DevOps lifecycle

The DevOps lifecycle

(ethereal electronic music) - [Instructor] Cisco tells us that, for the CCNA exam, they want us to know about two different configuration management tools: Ansible and Terraform. Before getting into those specific tools, though, I wanted to set the context by describing something called the DevOps lifecycle. And we'll see where those specific tools fit in to this lifecycle. Let's go back in time just a bit. We traditionally in large enterprise networks had one group that did software development and another group that did IT operations. They often essentially operated in silos. There was not a great deal of interaction between the groups. They were in different departments under different management structures. And when something did not go well or broke, there might've been some finger-pointing and blaming going on between the groups. But under this new structured called DevOps, a combination of software development and IT operations, we have the development and the operations…

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