SDDC and DevOps: A mixed world
The SDDC is perhaps one of the biggest enabler for DevOps as well as for running legacy applications more agile and dynamic. However, for most organizations, the SDDC is a way of running and deploying their well-established and often still required legacy applications.
Given all the changes a DevOps environment introduces, it will collide with established and required policies and processes in an enterprise environment. The classic approaches will not work since they possibly slow down DevOps operations and also create unnecessary overhead to such an environment.
An example for this will be an IPAM and CMDB solution. Given the short and temporary life of a development environment, it might not be necessary to track the hostname and IP address from all the VMs in the environment. Also, it might not be required to add all OS and software configuration items to the CMDB since they can change on a day-by-day basis. Therefore, all these processes have to be ignored...
