Many organizations have begun to embrace DevOps without more ado in order to capitalize on the wide variety of actual, measurable benefits it provides. However, numerous businesses believe that implementing DevOps will raise compliance and regulatory difficulties. This is mostly due to the fact that every person in a DevOps organization has access to all infrastructure and data in the organization’s environment. However, DevOps offers a method to cope with compliance and access issues as well.
Let’s take a closer look at the compliance strategies that make use of DevOps.
Early incorporation
Compliance-related tasks, like testing, should be integrated early in the software lifecycle by DevOps teams. The same way that everyone is speaking of shifting left for testing, the same lays to compliances. Automation will help to a certain extent with this. In brief, organizations cannot postpone security and compliance problems until later in the release cycle. Implementing this will not only successfully remove the compliance-related roadblocks, but will also improve the software’s quality, security, agility, and stability.
Use DevOps automation to ensure compliance
Another key benefit of DevOps is that it automates some processes and improves the overall efficiency of an organization’s operations.
Specific time-consuming and tiresome operations such as monitoring and analyzing pull requests, failovers, access restrictions, code reviews, and code coverage can all be optimized through automation with the medley of DevOps.
Organizations can also use DevOps automation to assure that compliance rules are followed simply by streamlining procedures like failover/recovery. It is also important to note that if these procedures are not optimized through a unified automated system, an organization’s compliance initiative may be lost.
Examine the entire CI/CD pipeline
Traditionally, software auditing occurs during the production stage. However, with DevOps compliance, audits must be performed across all phases of the CI/CD pipeline to ensure that each stage meets compliance criteria. This strategy aids in determining the source of the problem and promptly finding a solution. In DevOps, the optimal practice is to log and report only compliance-related data.
