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DevOps — A Booster or A Brake for Your Business?

Here's what to consider in your DevOps adoption.
Every company has to remain competitive in order to survive and succeed. This means your business must innovate and constantly improve your products and internal workflows. Whether you sell physical merchandise, provide some online services, or deliver values through a web-based application, your business definitely has to build some code, run it in production and manage some IT infrastructure at an ever-growing rate. But how do you achieve this?

Growing the numbers of software engineers can only get you so far. If all of the internal processes and workflows are manual, the numbers of software developers or Ops engineers become irrelevant, if their productivity is capped by some performance bottleneck or roadblock in form of approval from some executive. This is why many businesses, startups and global enterprises alike decide to undergo a DevOps transformation.

What is DevOps And What Is It Based On?

The DevOps culture of IT operations is a practical implementation of the Agile methodology of software development and infrastructure operations. It is centered on the automation of routine operations to free up the resources and time needed to innovate and improve your business performance. Let’s take a closer look at what DevOps is and what it can do.

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Is it DevSecOps or SecDevOps?

There's no doubt that DevOps and security are top-of-mind for software organizations, and the result of integrating security into DevOps has been the introduction of the terms SecDevOps and DevSecOps. Although used interchangeably, the order of words is important. Why? Because in most cases, security is still being "tacked on" at the end of the deployment process. In this post I'll discuss how delivering secure software is easier to achieve when security is an integral part of development, from the start of the software development process rather than as a gate at the end of the delivery pipeline.

What Security Looks Like in DevSecOps

Despite the increased focus on security, it's challenging for software teams to build security into a process and pipeline. The pressure to complete projects on time and within budgets often overrules other considerations. As a result, we tend to see security added as the last gating step for a release candidate, as illustrated below: