Expanding DevSecOps Practices and Clarifying the Concepts within Kubernetes Ecosystem

DevSecOps principles and practices come with promising futures, which are related to integrating security by design within organizational processes. These include development, deployment, and operational management. For example, DevSecOps practices help securely speed up the processes of application delivery; resilience; elasticity; availability, and re-liability. Despite the promising future of DevSecOps, it comes with several challenges, and one of these is about establishing robust mechanisms for integrating security by design within the existing DevOps practices. This paper unifies and redefines DevSecOps practices, and then provides several real-life examples clarifying what it means to integrate security by design within each practice. Finally, it clarifies the concepts by illustrating the roles of DevSecOps practices in securing the Kubernetes ecosystem.