Defining the DevOps SDLC
With this chapter, we have officially entered the second phase of defining our DevOps 360° operating model, which is capabilities evolution and enablement. This chapter is dedicated to the heart of evolving and enabling the model – the DevOps 360° SDLC evolution and engineering. Before we continue, I would like to take you back to the DevOps definition that we specified for this book:
A set of practices, frameworks, and technologies that enable flows, continuity, and collaboration across the SDLC, toward materializing common objectives, while achieving an equilibrium of time to market, reliability, and compliance of services.
As you can see, the SDLC is at the heart of our definition. This is not a coincidence, as the SDLC is the main backbone through which the DevOps objectives and equilibrium of value delivery materialize. But let us define what we mean by SDLC in our book’s context. We define the SDLC as the composition of processes...
