In this series of articles, we will explore the convergence happening between the IT and Telecom industries, which is referred to as “Telco Softwarisation”. Nowadays numerous companies are shipping software in minutes following a DevOps concept, called Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD). It uses automation for building, testing, and delivering software components to development and production environments with swiftness, safety, and reliability, validating in a continuous way the value streams of an organization. A list of common tools and use cases will be discussed along the way of these articles.

The DevOps mentality

Building a software project requires good coordination and communication within teams. However, there is a big probability for human errors, which is exactly the reason a lot of focus has been given to automation as a concept in the last fifteen years. A well-known concept is DevOps, which comes from the convergence of Development and Operations. It is a term coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, who also became one of its gurus.

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