Compliance as code is an important form of applied DevOps. This idea resonates with enterprises, who often use DevOps to deploy applications that have a specific purpose. For example, banks use DevOps to deploy applications to help improve compliance and insurance companies want applications that they can derive insights from.
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It is this use of DevOps to automate the delivery of purpose-driven applications that we call applied DevOps. As enterprises picked up velocity in software delivery with faster development and faster deployments, compliance was left behind and waiting too long to incorporate compliance can undo many of the benefits of a faster delivery process. Organizations have started introducing security and compliance earlier in the software delivery process, making it part of the story from the very beginning rather than bolting it on as an afterthought at great cost.