DevOPS is not only a term, it’s a principle, it’s a way of working, interacting with other people, implementing stuff.
A wonderful inspiration implementing a good build/deployment pipeline was this book available at amazon: Continuous Delivery – Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation. The principles described in this book can apply on all sorts of software. We applied it at Cegeka to automatically deliver puppet code through all available environments.
How to define a cloud compatible application?
In the modern era, software is commonly delivered as a service: called web apps, or software-as-a-service. The twelve-factor app is a methodology for building software-as-a-service apps. The twelve-factor app is designed for continuous deployment by keeping the gap between development and production small.
https://12factor.net/12factor.epub
Who should read this document? Any developer building applications which run as a service. Ops engineers who deploy or manage such applications.