Continuous integration is one of the primary DevOps practices seen commonly in creating software and agile development. A process that sees various contributors' code changes and activities be tested automatically while being added to a software project.

The software development and operations field has seen the concepts of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code gain significant popularity over recent years.

They are two closely related concepts and are widely recognized for their benefits to the software development cycle. IaC, or Infrastructure as Code, refers to the process through which infrastructure resources are managed and provisioned, such as networks, servers, and storage, by using machine-readable definition files instead of manual processes.

DevOps, in its entirety, is a cross-disciplinary practice: A software development approach that puts software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) together so that the team can continue to deliver top-level software products.