DevOps, DevSecOps, and GitOps are pipelines focused on improving efficiency within an organization. Each pipeline focuses on targeted areas and applies specific principles.

Let’s take a closer look at each option.

DevOps

DevOps focuses on combining software development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) with the goal of shortening the systems development life cycle and providing continuous delivery with high software quality. Effective DevOps allows rapid and frequent development cycles, sometimes as short as a single day.

Benefits of DevOps:

• Speed – move at a higher velocity for the development and delivery of solutions
• Reliability – improve the quality of application updates and infrastructure changes
• Scale – operate and manage your development and infrastructure processes at scale

DevSecOps

DevSecOps augments DevOps by integrating security practices directly into DevOps. Commonly, security has been on the perimeter of applications and data, which means that certain aspects are easily overlooked. By incorporating a focus directly on security, organizations are able to think about application and infrastructure security from the start.

Pipeline changes could include:

• Integrating security scanners for containers.
• Automating security testing during the CI process, such as static analysis and vulnerability scanning.
• Adding automated tests, such as input validation tests.
• Automating security updates.

GitOps

At its core, GitOps focuses on managing everything in your environment in a version control system, which in this case is Git. Git serves as the single source of truth and control mechanism for creating, updating, and deleting system architecture by using pull requests to verify and automatically deploy system infrastructure changes.

By leveraging Git, a system’s infrastructure is immediately reproducible based off of the state of a Git repository. As changes are made, a pull request is created to capture the updated state of the system. By utilizing a pull request, all communication and review of the changes are consolidated into a single place.

If you think your organization could benefit from these principles, then feel free to reach out today to discuss your specific needs. Like most things, the needs of each organization will vary and there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. This is where our team will evaluate the current processes of your organization and determine the best approach.