DevOps is an approach to speed up application delivery through automation. It involves continuous integration, deployment automation, and test automation. Continuous integration involves frequent builds and automated unit testing. Deployment automation enables fast, reliable, and continuous deployment to servers. Test automation includes unit, smoke, integration, UI, static code analysis, and security testing. DevOps principles include fast failure, continuous delivery, automated and repeatable processes, building once, keeping deployed binaries and versioning, and separating development and operations duties. The DevOps toolchain manages software configuration, application deployment, builds, packaging, delta deployment, zero-downtime deployment, rollbacks, cleanups, and is maintained by operations.