DevOps is an approach that promotes collaboration between development and operations teams. It aims to bridge the gaps between these groups by emphasizing culture, automation, metrics and sharing. The document discusses that DevOps is not just about tools for automation, but also a mindset. It provides examples of problems like different environments for local development vs production. The goals are to have the same environments, enable auto deployment/testing, and auto monitoring. Key aspects of DevOps culture, automation, metrics and sharing are described. The scope of further study is outlined to apply concepts like virtualization, configuration management and monitoring tools to address the identified problems.