Along with Cloud Native Computing and Agile Development, DevOps has been a driving force for increasing the velocity and pace if IT delivery. DevOps is a critical link between your Agile development capabilities and your new Cloud computing capabilities. Without DevOps, the goals of Agile and Cloud computing cannot be fully realized.
Along with the rapid adoption of DevOps comes a larger challenge: governing the code delivery pipeline. DevOps governance focuses on the processes, tooling and organizational design that enables DevOps to operate transparently within the context of IT Governance and Cloud Governance – with oversight for security, data privacy, testing, and change management/release management. DevOps cannot be a black box.
DevOps Governance is new, and necessarily requires new thinking and new tools to operationalize it. Google Grafeas and Git Hygieia (originally devloped at Capital One) are interesting approaches to creating visibility into DevOps and your code pipeline. LGS will bring Lean Governance principles and frameworks along with DevOps tooling to enable true DevOps governance.