Common industry practices for deployment

After almost 2 months of DevOps enablement, the DevOps and SRE teams were ready to implement the different continuous practices. However, migrating to the new process would not be an easy task for their developers. Getting the users to adopt a new practice as well as a new platform would be difficult. The best way to enforce standards and prevent requirements overload would be to build a highly configurable solution. The goal would be to have the developers only provide artifact and environment configurations. The rest of the requirements would be enforced by the solution itself.

One of the recent industry trends has been to leverage declarative language files to provide configuration requirements. A declarative language, such as YAML, JSON, or XML, leverage a key:value style, often in a nesting layout for easy data storage, access, and readability. During their research, the teams discovered that most tools that were cloud native would use...