Dealing with corporate implementation mandates

DevOps is such a critical business enabler that chief and line of business executives may push the transition via a corporate mandate without taking sufficient time to plan, prepare, and budget the initiative to support an enterprise-scale deployment. When this occurs, the best DevOps implementation strategy is to go with DevSecOps as a Service (DaaS). The IT department does not need to implement DevOps tools and maintain integrated toolchains to get started. And, when driven by corporate mandate, the decision-makers may not be aware of the technical implementation options, tools and toolchain alternatives, configuration and integration requirements, costs, and other issues.

DaaS is a multitenancy implementation concept. The term software multitenancy refers to a software architecture in which the software runs on at least one server, but more often on many virtualized servers and serves multiple tenants (customers). DaaS examples include...