# Developer tools ## DevOps * DevOps is A set of practices that combine software development and IT operations to shorten the development lifecycle and provide high-quality software * IBM Cloud DevOps services provide a set of tools that support development, deployment, delivery, and operations tasks. IBM Cloud Toolchains are assembled by combining tasks. * The DevOps service has support for IBM Cloud deployment platforms and other third-party providers such as GitHub, Bitbucket, Slack, Jira, any many more. #### **DevOps** DevOps is an increasingly common approach to agile software development that developers and operations teams use to build, test, deploy, and monitor applications with speed, quality, and control. DevOps is relevant to any kind of software project regardless of architecture, platform, or purpose. IBM Cloud DevOps services provide an integrated set of solutions or a "toolchain" to remove manual steps, reduce errors, increase team agility, and scale beyond small, isolated teams. To read more about this topic check out “[DevOps](https://www.ibm.com/cloud/devops)” on IBM Cloud. {% hint style="info" %} DevOps is a set of practices that combine software development dev and it operations ops. It aims to shorten the development lifecycle by providing continuous deployment with high software quality via automated tests and delivery governance. {% endhint %} --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://dailyjournal.gitbook.io/cloud-computing/cloud-computing-platforms/introduction/developer-tools.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.