Understanding CI/CD governance

Implementing governance in DevOps release management requires establishing an assortment of procedures aimed at creating oversight mechanisms within CI/CD infrastructure. This paradigm frequently incorporates a blend of access control management, compliance policies, automated testing, and manual review checkpoints. The principal focus of DevOps governance necessitates advancing the objectives of operational security and establishing a comprehensive framework for monitoring, approving, and documenting all modifications to ensure traceability.

To be comfortable with CI/CD governance, you must have a comprehensive understanding of how CI/CD pipelines function. As you learned in the previous chapter, CI/CD pipelines encompass a sequence of automated workflows, systems, and methods that are specifically devised to facilitate the swift and dependable delivery of new code, starting from a developer’s workstation to the production environment. This...