Describe devops culture and how it relates to MDC3.

• A. DevOps is a separate siloed practice; no relation.
• B. DevOps is a culture of collaboration between development and operations with automation, CI/CD, and monitoring; in MDC3 it enables reliable, rapid delivery.
• C. DevOps is only about continuous deployment to production with no testing.
• D. DevOps is about hardware provisioning only.

Answer: (B)

DevOps culture centers on collaboration between development and operations, with a strong emphasis on automation, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and ongoing monitoring. This approach treats software delivery as a shared responsibility and uses repeatable processes to move changes from code to production quickly and safely. In MDC3, adopting this mindset enables reliable, rapid delivery by standardizing workflows, building automated pipelines for building, testing, and deploying, and continuously collecting feedback from monitoring to improve the system. It reduces handoffs and silos, increases visibility, and supports small, frequent releases that improve quality and resilience.

Silos and rigid handoffs aren’t the point of DevOps, which is why that view doesn’t fit. It’s not solely about deploying to production or about testing in isolation, and it isn’t just about hardware provisioning. The strength lies in integration, automation, and feedback across the whole delivery lifecycle.