SASE DevOps

DevOps plays a significant role in SASE as a doctrinal practice to ensure security throughout the software development life cycle. The primary differences between legacy software development practice and DevOps are a focus on Continuous Integration/Continual Delivery (CI/CD) and the integration of the operations component. Instead of developing software and handing it off to someone else to operate it, the DevOps team develops with the operations team as their key customer. It is more common today for a software support team and the software development team to be one comprehensive team. That one team performs all processes from cradle to grave for the application that they are responsible for.

SASE DevOps is realized when purchasing SASE services from a service provider that is also the developer and the operator of those services. Occasionally, the model involves all contributors being from one company or organization. More commonly, the contributors to the DevOps...