Sustaining integrations

There are many use cases for continuous testing, continuous quality, continuous security, and continuous feedback for DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE. Implementing and achieving working solutions for all of these use cases requires a considerable investment to transform practices for people (including culture), processes, and technologies, as illustrated in Figure 9.5.

Figure 9.5 – Sustaining integrations

However, after a successful transformation, the practices may erode and the gains may be impacted if practices are not put in place to sustain the people, processes, and tools for each of the use cases. This section describes recommended practices that will sustain the gains while allowing for ongoing improvements to the practices.

Sustaining the gains achieved through the transformation of DevOps, DevSecOps, and SRE practices into continuous methodologies for testing, quality, security, and feedback requires an ongoing commitment...