Innovation at the 'Speed of Cloud' - Why are DevOps and CI/CD Critical for Cloud-Native Networks?
RCRWirelessNews, Thursday, April 10th, 2025
DevOps is the strategy of bringing together development and operations teams to collaborate to automate the network lifecycle; CI/CD is the execution of this strategy
Vertically integrated, monolithic systems are reliable, but slow to evolve. By decomposing functions into microservices, deployable across distributed environments, cloud-native architecture introduces a modularity that demands an automated, iterative approach to development and operations, which is where continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) and DevOps come in.
DevOps refers to a set of practices, cultural philosophies and tooling that bring software development (Dev) and IT/network operations (Ops) teams together to enable rapid, reliable and scalable delivery of telecom services. It's about reshaping how networks are built, deployed and operated in a dynamic, software-defined and service-centric environment.