Use DevOps principles to manage the SDDC

Besides the pure developers view of DevOps to run application in the SDDC, there is another point of view worthwhile to cover. The SDDC itself consists of blueprints, which will deploy services. These blueprints are basically software or at least code definitions of infrastructure. In a production environment, it is very common to have a development SDDC and a production SDDC. Once new services pass all test and quality assurance criteria in the development SDDC, they can be transformed to the production environment. However, this task had to be done manually in the past or by the use of complex command-line tools without the ability to version control or roll back in case of an error.

This is quite close to what developers do in software and why DevOps is so popular. They simply want to be able to quickly reapply an updated version of their software. The same principle comes true for blueprints; it would be very handy to develop a simple blueprint...