DevOps and DevSecOps

DevOps represents a change in the way that organizations have traditionally approached application development and deployment. Traditionally, developers and operations staff were managed as separate disciplines that rarely worked together. Developers would write code to specifications and when they wanted to deploy it, they “threw it over the fence” to the operations team. Sometimes, the operations team encountered issues deploying the application, so they would send it back to the development team with the issues that were preventing successful deployment. Developers and operations would iterate on this process, typically at a slow and frustrating pace. Because these groups only communicated with each other periodically, the developers often lacked the operational and environmental context that would help them develop applications that could be deployed and operated in a real IT environment. Similarly, the operations teams often didn’t have...