The document introduces DevOps and discusses its goals of simplicity, no code, and minimal jargon. DevOps is defined as the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and tools that increases an organization's ability to deliver applications and services at high velocity. A simple example shows the journey of code from development to operations and the limitations of scaling, reliability, speed, and security when these functions are separated. DevOps addresses these limitations through automation, tools for continuous integration, monitoring, and configuration management. While DevOps helps with complexity from multiple teams and environments, additional challenges arise from microservices, containers, and redundancy across critical services.