White Paper
How Operational Challenges Can Disrupt Your Shift to DevOps
OpenText examines the operational barriers that can undermine DevOps adoption, particularly as teams embrace Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to develop applications and infrastructure together. While IaC accelerates innovation and automation, it can also create resource sprawl, uncontrolled costs, compliance risks, poor visibility, and challenges managing credentials and development environments. The paper recommends balancing developer autonomy with IT governance through real-time visibility into deployments, lifecycle controls and automated cleanup, centralized secrets management, policy-based IaC guardrails, and API-enabled service catalogs. These practices help organizations scale DevOps while maintaining security, compliance, cost control, and operational stability.
