Agile, secure and efficient development.
The DevSecOps wave is due to the spread of the 'DevOps' development culture already incorporating secure software development. The practice involves having development and testing teams working integrated in a highly automated environment with proactive and integrated actions to the IT operations team.
To ensure the reliability of the software developed, tasks from conception to delivery are instrumented with quality gates. This way, the detection of functional, performance or security failures is performed throughout the development cycle, not at the final delivery when the application is almost ready and it is much more expensive and difficult to resolve any problems.
Adopting the DevSecOps culture assumes integrated teams acting with the conception that the performance, security and reliability of the digital product is everyone's problem. This change of mentality suggests that developers take into account the most reliable code principles and standards from the first line of code.
Count on VERICODE for building development pipelines to support the adoption of the DevSecOps culture.
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Deployment in the DevOps model deals with the automation of Configuration Management, Release Management, and Deployment processes so that every time a change is approved in the testing cycle, it is automatically released and deployed in the production environment.
Vericode uses the Atlassian platform as the basis for the continuous Release & Deployment process. Our consultants work with the client to assess the types of applications and systems that are candidates for this type of automation, taking into account policies, features, business requirements, and regulatory requirements. Our approach covers the processes:
Configuration Management
Understanding the current situation and recommendations on which configuration items need to be under version and change control (including scripts, forms, reports, dashboards, source codes, documents, etc.) to support automation and rollback of baselines.
Continuous Planning
The pace at which users and customers expect changes and value-driven deliveries has resulted in a change in the application and system development and delivery model, requiring the implementation of continuous delivery pipelines. Agile alone is not enough to generate better business results; the concept of continuous delivery connects business strategy with business results through a management model where planning is continuous (Continuous Planning).
Vericode implements a Continuous Planning solution within the DevOps culture that aligns IT deliveries with business objectives in a transparent, collaborative, and controlled model using Atlassian tools for the integration of processes between IT and business areas, establishing a management platform that enables:
Collaborative decision-making. Generation of a delivery roadmap. Understanding of capacity. Control of the status of each business delivery. Control of the status of each business need/feature. Reduces delivery cycles through end-to-end integration. Define operational releases for each business delivery. Allocate development environments for specific releases. Orchestrate changes across multiple applications and systems. Control quality milestones and deployment statuses.
Continuous Integration
Within the DevOps implementation, Continuous Integration emerged as a good development practice to avoid these problems and requires that developers' code be merged with the team's shared version continuously.
The main objective of Continuous Integration is to integrate and test the System with every change in order to minimize the time between the introduction of a defect and its correction, reducing development deadlines and reducing the cost of rework and testing.
Vericode implements a continuous, automated, and consistent development pipeline within the DevOps culture, covering everything from the conception of Configuration Management and Release Management processes with powerful tools.
Changes are delivered and accepted by the development team members, ensuring that any technical debt resulting from the changes is resolved as soon as it occurs.
Developers deliver changes, performing builds and unit tests before making their changes available to the rest of the team. This allows for quick integration problems to be identified and corrected while the change is still "fresh" in the developer's mind.
Sets of changes from all developers are integrated into the team workspace and then built and tested unitarily, daily or whenever a change is made available. In this way, changes from a developer that are introduced to the team have a minimum level of validation before a new code is made available.
Continuous Testing
Vericode implements the practice of Continuous Testing within the DevOps culture by defining a testing process and environment with continuous and automated feedbacks supported by tools and strategies that ensure quality, agility, and cost reduction.
Continuous Release and Deployment
Assessment of current situation and recommendations on Release Management models (e.g. Top-Down, Bottom-up) at the granularity level that best suits the client's methodology, defining a model that ensures the integrity of each release (or change set), and its components are easily identified and managed. Ensuring a Deployment process that ensures that all changes implemented in production can be tracked, installed, tested, verified and/or rolled back if necessary in a consistent and repeatable manner.
Benefits of DevSecOps Culture
- Adopt a DevOps culture to anticipate error detection and get earlier feedback in the lifecycle.
- Decrease the number of parallel changes that need to be merged and tested and the amount of errors found during system testing.
- Automate unit testing to reduce delivery validation times.
- Reduce technical and development risk as well as costs.
- Enhance collaboration among team members.
SAFe
With the growth of Agile as a delivery model, it has become apparent that isolated approaches do not guarantee corporate success. The Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) emerged as a process orchestration model for complex and large-scale Agile software development environments with the goal of ensuring coordination among all teams to deliver software products with quality and consistency of deliveries.
As main values of this model are alignment, quality, transparency, and continuous execution/improvement.
Atlassian
Vericode supports Agile transformation through the implementation of SAFe 3.0 framework using the Continuous Collaboration model and the Atlassian tool suite to provide visibility, communication, transparency and management of interdependent teams in the software development process across all domains of the framework.