It wasn’t long ago when engineers configured systems manually. In those days, developers drafted procedural documents for administrators to follow when deploying applications. Devops tools and practices, including deploying with CI/CD, configuring infrastructure as code, and managing containerized systems, all enabled IT teams to improve systems reliability, security, and performance.The result is that more devops teams could deploy application changes and scale cloud infrastructure faster. Devops teams went from quarterly release cycles to more continuous deployment practices, and cloud engineers developed automations to scale cloud infrastructure based on computing demands.