Devops architecture involves three main categories of infrastructure: IT infrastructure (version control, issue tracking, etc.), build infrastructure (build servers with access to source code), and test infrastructure (deployment, acceptance, and functional testing). Continuous integration involves automating the integration of code changes, while continuous delivery ensures code is always releasable but actual deployment is manual. Continuous deployment automates deployment so that any code passing tests is immediately deployed to production. The document discusses infrastructure hosting options, automation approaches, common CI/CD workflows, and provides examples of low and medium-cost devops tooling setups using open source and proprietary software.