The document provides an introduction to DevOps, which promotes collaboration between development and operations teams. It discusses models used before DevOps, including the waterfall model and agile methodology. While agile methodology improved on waterfall by allowing for continuous development and testing, a lack of collaboration between teams remained an issue. DevOps aims to address this by having development and operations engineers work together throughout the entire lifecycle from design to deployment. This is intended to result in faster delivery of features to customers while also improving stability. The document outlines the DevOps lifecycle from continuous development to continuous monitoring.