Leveraging AI and Automation for Successful DevSecOps

As engineering teams try to innovate at a faster pace, being able to maintain the quality, performance and security of the applications become much more important. Organizations have found huge success in improving their overall product quality while ensuring security controls and compliance requirements are met. AI-driven automation solutions have aided engineering teams in automating key processes and leverage predictive analytics, to identify issues before they occur and taking corrective actions, improving the overall product quality. Predictive analytics has helped Operations teams perform real-time application monitoring and identify issues with application security, performance, and infrastructure thus improving overall operational efficiency. Implementing AI-driven DevOps solutions will help organizations accelerate in the present and adapt to changes easily in the future.

The article will provide ten ways in which organizations of any size can leverage the power of AI and automation for their DevSecOps pipeline and continuously improve their implementation as their business evolves.

1. Automate Your Quality Gates

Quality gates or check gates enable the decision making on whether a build can be promoted to higher environments. To achieve faster and continuous releases, automating the quality gates at each stage of the pipeline helps automate the Go-No Go decision of a build into various environments. Automated quality gates can include unit tests, automated code analysis, end-to-end tests based on the pipeline stage.

Why Cloud and DevOps Succeed Together

Businesses are continuously striving to bring high availability to customers with unmatched application performance, little to zero downtime, and seamless multi-channel experience. Moving to the cloud is one way to achieve these goals. However, even moving to the cloud is not a foolproof survival strategy. They still need agility, cost-savings, and better performance for millions of connected devices. The development and cloud operations must go hand-in-hand to make the most of cloud platforms. Companies missing DevOps on cloud operations or development are not reaping the promises of using cloud platforms.

Cloud and DevOps Are Better Off Together

First, using DevOps engineering (developers and QA teams) can work with the operations team employing a cloud platform. Developers can quickly set up new environments without the help of IT operations. Meanwhile, IT operations can investigate other operations of infrastructure costs, enabling security and dynamics. Cloud is the common language here and thus, connects two different teams.