Infrastructure as Code and deployment strategies
DevOps practices focus on automating and streamlining the software development lifecycle. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) involves managing infrastructure through code rather than manual processes, using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation. Deployment strategies include blue-green deployments (maintaining two identical environments and switching between them), canary releases (gradually rolling out changes to a subset of users), and rolling deployments (updating instances gradually). Monitoring and logging are crucial for understanding application behavior in production. Configuration management ensures consistent environments across development, testing, and production. DevOps emphasizes collaboration between development and operations teams, automation of repetitive tasks, and continuous feedback through monitoring. Understanding these practices helps create reliable, scalable, and maintainable deployment processes for Python applications.