There’s no arguing with the fact that Agile and DevOps are two distinct methodologies. Agile involves continuous iteration to achieve better quality products, whereas DevOps focuses on continuous and rapid delivery using automation.
Both methodologies are important for an efficient, fast and high-quality development process. While they may have a fair share of similarities, they have different methods of working and use different tools.
Here’s a list of some major differences between the two methodologies:
Aaron Cure is the Principal Security Consultant at Cypress Data Defense and an instructor and contributing author for the Dev544 Secure Coding in .NET course.
After 10 years in the U.S. Army, I decided to switch my focus to developing security tools and performing secure code reviews, penetration testing, static source code analysis, and security research.