CI/CD is a key technical practice within the broader DevOps movement — which is fundamentally about culture, collaboration, and breaking down silos between development and operations to deliver software faster and more reliably. Understanding this context shows that CI/CD is a means to broader goals.
What DevOps is
DEVOPS is a culture/movement uniting DEVELOPMENT and OPERATIONS:
→ break down SILOS between dev (build features) and ops (run systems) — shared
ownership and collaboration instead of "throw it over the wall"
→ CULTURE + practices + tools to deliver software faster and more reliably
→ "you build it, you run it" — teams own their software end-to-end
→ CI/CD is a core TECHNICAL ENABLER of DevOps (but DevOps is broader than tools).
