Devops is an approach that aims to increase an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity by combining cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that align development and operations teams. Under a DevOps model, development and operations teams work closely together across the entire application lifecycle from development through deployment to operations. They use automation, monitoring, and collaboration tools to accelerate delivery while improving quality and security. Popular DevOps tools include Git, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Docker, and Nagios.