108 E Y E B ROW Robert Ericksen talks about the advantages of a DevOps approach, and how Kyndryl can help organisations to implement its processes at scale Bridging the gap Traditionally, the relationship between developers and operators has been a fractious one. While a development team is always looking to push forward new capabilities and releases to meet the demands of the market quickly, the operations department is aiming to ensure that solutions remain stable and available. While one side wants to ensure constant change, the other wants to stay the same. This natural conflict is what DevOps, a combination of practices and tools accompanied by a mindset shift, is designed to resolve. By bringing together the two sides of development and operations, a DevOps team aims to avoid bottlenecks that can reduce a client’s agility and responsiveness. “What we’re trying to do is to streamline that relationship,” says Robert Erickson, director of managed multi-cloud platform at Kyndryl. “DevOps is a culture of collaboration and communication that is applied consistently. Teams have the right tools and the right understanding of the process from the beginning, and the key is to make sure there’s visibility and traceability through the production pipeline.” As Eriksen explains, this mindset can be expanded even further to encompass the ever-pressing need to ensure organisation-wide security in what is known as DevSecOps. “DevSecOps takes the approach one step further by adding security” says Eriksen. “It’s about a change in mindset, infusing a security I NT E V I EW BY A L E X SM I TH
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