Chapter 6. Wrapping Up
Moving to DevOps or DevSecOps can be a considerable cultural shift. Moving to the cloud can be an enormous change as well, especially if you are trying to adopt cloud native approaches rather than just a lift and shift, where you outsource your existing infrastructure and systems to a cloud provider. Following are some considerations as you are thinking about migrating to DevOps/DevSecOps:
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Make sure you have the right team members in place. This is especially true if you are going to a cloud native design using virtualized applications rather than virtualized systems. The deployment is very different.
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Select the right tools. If you are going to virtualized applications rather than systems, make sure you have a solid orchestration and management platform in place. This may be something like Kubernetes, which can manage the entire life cycle of virtualized applications.
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Automate as much as possible. Automation is testable, which helps ensure you are using the right process. This can also help you scale your application in case of surges in requests.
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Verify everything. Attackers will go after the source code and even the toolchains. Automation is great for most things, but you also need humans to validate that the right things are happening (e.g., the right source code has been checked in) and the right tools are in place. The SolarWinds compromise has shown that tools are just as capable of introducing malicious source code into the build as replacing ...
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