Summary

This chapter described DevOps in general. Its purpose and what differences it might bring to an SDDC. The general meaning and purpose of DevOps was discussed in order to understand that this way of creating applications requires different approaches. It also listed several approaches to run cloud-native applications and listed ways to further automate their release and tests. Also, it listed tools to integrate in vRA in order to be able to provide the best of both worlds for DevOps as well for the classic legacy IT application. Finally, it highlighted a way of applying the DevOps principle to the SDDC service development, in order to leverage its agility and flexibility for the creation and distribution of infrastructure blueprints.

In the next chapter, the focus will be on capacity management in an SDDC. It will highlight why it is important to do predictive capacity planning as well as which tool in the VMware family can be used to further provide this functionality. Also, it will...