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Operations Capabilities

Operations are at the heart of every organization. Operating in the cloud allows IT teams to focus on business outcomes, optimizing IT processes while accelerating software development and innovation. The capabilities within this area enable you to build, deploy, and operate, workloads with ease in the cloud with developer experience and tools capabilities.

  • The Developer Experience and Tools capability enables you to provide the tools and processes required for developers to build and deploy workloads. This capability includes managing code, building workflows, and promoting workloads into production environments.

    Scenarios

    • CF22 – S1: Code storage and maintenance
    • CF22 – S2: Dev & Test Environments
    • CF22 – S3: SDLC Pipelines
    • CF22 – S4: Pipeline reporting & monitoring
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  • The Observability capability enables you to gather and analyze operational data about system and application activities. This includes the analysis of data to identify anomalies, indicators of compromise, performance, and configuration changes.

    Scenarios

    • CF15 – S1: Log analysis
    • CF15 – S2: Log centralization
    • CF15 – S3: Metrics and alarms
    • CF15 – S4: Log lifecycle management
    • CF15 – S5: Dashboard and visualizations
    • CF15 – S6: Traceability  
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  • Patching is the ability to deploy sets of changes to update, fix, and/or enhance the operation and security properties of workloads. The Patch Management capability includes addressing security vulnerabilities, bug fixes, and other related work. The scope of patching includes operating systems, applications, and any relevant software systems.

    Scenarios

    • CF5 – S1: Patch assessment and prioritization
    • CF5 – S2: Patch testing
    • CF5 – S3: Patch deployment
    • CF5 – S4: Patch monitoring and reporting
    • CF5 – S5: Patch rollback and recovery
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  • The Image Management capability enables you to manage compute images throughout their entire lifecycle. This can involve the creation, acquisition, distribution, and storage of the images.

    Scenarios

    • CF31 – S1: Image development
    • CF31 – S2: Image storage and distribution
    • CF31 – S3: Image lifecycle management

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