With the development and breakthrough of cloud computing technology in all walks of life, as well as the unremitting efforts to "turn cloud into rain" in all links of the ecological chain of production, learning and research, the application and value mining of cloud computing have fully penetrated into all aspects of enterprise digital transformation and transformation.

Various industries and enterprises continue to deepen the degree of enterprise it cloud based on their own business status, competition situation and the degree of information transformation, and move from one milestone to the next. Over the past year, people have seen more and more cases of enterprises accelerating their digital transformation. McKinsey, a world-renowned consulting firm, said that enterprises have reached a critical point where they need to adjust their business operations.

The use of multi cloud environment and cloud native architecture based on microservices, containers and kubernetes will be the core of digital transformation. While these approaches undoubtedly help the Devops team drive digital agility and faster delivery, they also pose new security challenges for applications.

The demand for cloud computing automation highlights that Devops will become the mainstream in the next decade

Cloud computing services make it easier for enterprises to access resources on demand, but they do not manage them better.

Imagine that an enterprise must configure virtual machines, create virtual machine clusters, set up virtual networks, and manage availability and performance. Automation technology will easily complete all these tasks. Cloud computing automation is a set of processes and tools that can reduce the energy and time spent by the enterprise's IT team in configuring and managing cloud computing workloads and services, and can apply cloud computing automation to private cloud, public cloud or hybrid cloud.

In addition, manual cloud deployment may produce some security vulnerabilities, which puts the enterprise's business at risk. The adoption of cloud computing automation helps to reduce the variability and complexity of infrastructure and technology stack. According to IDC's latest market research on Devops, by 2022, the market scale of Devops is expected to increase from US $2.9 billion to US $8 billion, which will bring more benefits to developers and users, so as to become the mainstream technology in the next decade.

Relying on the development and creation of automated servers and the loading of operating systems, cloud computing automation can enable enterprises to improve their expansion capabilities faster by using code management infrastructure.

Combining infrastructure, i.e. code, with deployment automation, enterprises can quickly start different versions of applications on a separate infrastructure.

At the same time, with cloud computing automation, enterprises can use predefined identity access templates, scripts and pipelines to reduce management overhead and improve efficiency.

In addition, using pipelines and scripts, application deployment automation provides enterprises with the ability to build, test, and deploy applications at the push of a button.

In addition, using cloud computing automation combined with monitoring, alerting and repair, enterprises can define automated workflows that trigger once a specific event or threshold is reached. When cloud computing automation helps to simplify the above processes, it operators are free to focus on configuration and other high-value tasks, and developers can immediately streamline and deploy software.

This eliminates the tension between developers and operators, and eliminates the need for enterprises to invest a lot of money in training employees.

The new level of self-service and control enables the two teams to collaborate quickly and effectively to deploy new solutions.

Traditional tools have security blind spots, and devsecops escort cloud computing automation

With the development of micro services, containers, kubernetes, multi cloud environment and Devops, how to ensure business security has become the biggest problem for the security department.

Because traditional cloud computing technology is designed for different times and is characterized by static infrastructure and single application, it has been unable to keep up with the rapid development of cloud computing, and it is stretched in terms of security. For the security governance in the field of cloud computing automation, Gartner proposed the concept of devsecops.

In short, devsecops is a new method to embed security into every part of the Devops chain. It helps to identify security problems early in the development process rather than after product release. The goal is to make everyone responsible for information security, not just the security department.

The emergence of devsecops takes security as an attribute of the management object and carries out the security management of the whole life cycle from the early stage of software supply chain development, marking that the security of software supply chain has entered a new era.

According to an authoritative survey, more than 60% of developers and operation experts believe that integrating security into Devops has become a top priority. RSA 2020 release trend shows that devsecops has once again become one of the focuses of attention inside and outside the industry.

The chief information security officer (CISO) of many enterprises expressed the hope that Devops and application teams would take more direct responsibility for vulnerability management. In fact, many people believe that devsecops and security "left shift" are the best and most cost-effective ways to reduce risk.

However, existing tools and processes will disappoint these teams because they do not have time for manual scanning, usually lack the skills required to assume security responsibilities, and do not have the ability to detect critical vulnerabilities quickly enough.

Some Devops teams even completely bypass security controls, while others refuse to work with the security team because they are worried that taking these steps will slow down delivery time. To overcome these challenges and eliminate the burden on team members, enterprises need to be able to automatically identify vulnerabilities in applications.

If they can automate tests at run time, they don't have to add extra work to the Devops team.

By combining the vulnerability data with the knowledge of the runtime environment (such as whether the relevant code is exposed on the Internet), the devsecops team can obtain all the scenarios they need to understand the cause, nature and impact of the problem in real time, so that the team can effectively reduce risks and accelerate business development and innovation. The only way for enterprises to keep up with the modern cloud native application environment is to replace manual deployment, configuration and management with this more automated method.

This not only helps enterprises avoid the threat of cloud native, but also enables them to promote more sustainable business growth in the post epidemic era.