Test, governance, deploy, verify, and restore as code

When the DevOps team was documenting the different stages of their desired delivery pipeline design, they wanted to include significantly more than just the deployment process. There was a desire to include QA testing, change management, verification of the production environment, and failure remediation. But shortly after those original design meetings, the team experienced an accelerated timeline and scope change. If they wanted to revisit the idea of automating the delivery process, especially with verified GitOps, they would need internal support.

The team found that it was better to start with a specific platform, build out the delivery pipeline for that platform, and then expand to the other platform support afterward. And because of the native execution capabilities of Kubernetes, it would be less of a lift for the team to build out the delivery pipeline for the containerized applications.

Initially, the team would...