A DevOps pipeline is a set of automated processes and tools that allows developers and operations professionals to collaborate on building and deploying code to a production environment. It is a set of practices and tools that allows for greater cohesiveness between developers and IT Operations personnel in working together to build and deploy code onto a production environment. The DevOps pipeline typically includes build automation/continuous integration, automation testing, validation, and reporting. It may also include one or more manual gates that require human intervention before code is allowed to proceed. The pipeline is composed of several components, including establishing a CI/CD tool, source control, build automation, testing, deployment, and monitoring. The DevOps pipeline works like an assembly line, starting with writing the code and then running tests to find bugs, errors, typos, and redundancies. DevOps teams then put fixes and patches to address the issues, test them some more, and finally release the working product to users. Although each company or organization has its unique take on DevOps with its particular needs, there are five universally recognized steps to create a DevOps pipeline. The output of a DevOps pipeline is a collection of variables with assigned values used to build and deploy code.