Industry leaders have embraced DevOps as a guiding philosophy for ensuring a fast flow of features to the business. They’ve constructed toolchains that automate everything from continuous integration to configuration management, with teams provisioning infrastructure and code in just minutes. This level of speed and automation has propagated to every other key part of the software development lifecycle—except for data.
This makes mastering DataOps—the alignment of people, process, and technology to enable the rapid and secure provisioning of data—the key realizing the promise of DevOps. The ability to deliver complete application environments, including the right data, fills a key capability gap for DevOps teams and has a transformative effect on software delivery.
In the following pages, you’ll learn how enterprises are adopting DataOps to achieve their goals for quality, security, and speed.