DevOps aims to bridge the gap between development and operations by fostering collaboration. Key aspects of DevOps include establishing a collaborative culture through open communication and engagement between teams, automating processes like builds, deployments, testing and system configuration, and implementing monitoring of applications and infrastructure through metrics and logging to ensure stability and enable issues to be quickly identified and addressed. Tools like Puppet, Munin, Graphite, Logstash and Graylog can help operationalize these aspects of DevOps.