DevOps Toolchains and Associated Regulations

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DevOps TOOLCHAINS AND ASSOCIATED REGULATIONS
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1DevOps TOOLCHAINS AND ASSOCIATED REGULATIONS
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Overview....................................................................................................................................2
Analysis......................................................................................................................................2
Key Findings..............................................................................................................................5
Recommendations......................................................................................................................6

2DevOps TOOLCHAINS AND ASSOCIATED REGULATIONS
Overview
The DevOps toolchains have been effective in changing the methodology of work in
case of the software developers, IT operations professionals and QA. DevOps is being
adopted as the modern approach by the businesses owing to its capability of eliminating
organizational silos (Callanan and Spillane, 2016). DevOps improve collaboration and
communication but the concern as of now is what could be done in order to ensure that
DevOps toolchains are in accordance with the regulations. Compliance is considered to be the
most vital component in the IT domain having a negative inference associated with it. It is
necessary for an organization to ensure that the regulatory compliance is met with the
DevOps toolchains.
Analysis
With the ongoing trend of implementing DevOps in the IT organizations, it is required
to analyze its impact on the security and the compliance controls. The controls in this case are
the primary enablers of the activities related to software development. It is a vital aspect that
before implementing DevOps the organizations needs to think about the regulatory
compliance that possibly applies for the cultural and organizational shift required (Punjabi
and Bajaj, 2016). The DevOps’ approach creates vicinity that constitutes of continuous
integration and latest software is deployed along with integrated application lifecycle
management that leads to reliable delivery services. A business organization adopting
DevOps model experiences increase in their agility enabling the organization to provide
quick response to the rapid changes in the customer demands and the competitive pressures
(Stahl, Martensson and Bosch, 2017). The organizations aspiring to embrace DevOps need a
flexible infrastructure. The disadvantage of adopting DevOps is that implementing this makes
the IT infrastructure of the organization complex. As per the research done by Alonso et al.,