The DevOps movement was born of the need to improve IT service delivery agility and found initial traction within many large public cloud services providers. Underpinning DevOps is the philosophy found in the Agile Manifesto, which emphasizes people (and culture) and seeks to improve collaboration between operations and development teams. DevOps implementers also attempt to better utilize technology—especially automation tools that can leverage an increasingly programmable and dynamic infrastructure from a life cycle perspective.