Advancing Government With a ‘Digital Twin’ DevOps Strategy

More and more organizations in both the public and private sectors are adopting DevOps approaches to business culture, technology development, implementation and testing practices. However, some remain hesitant, slow to accept the risk and uncertainty that a new approach can bring. One concept that leaders in DevOps have adopted that underpins the success of the approach is a digital twin, the idea of replicating (or modeling) the data, code and technology so multiple teams can work on it simultaneously, accelerating authority to operate (ATO) and development pipelines.

“DevOps thrives on the concept of a digital twin,” said Kurt Steege, CTO for ThunderCat Technology. “The idea of the concept is to duplicate conditions and technologies in order to optimize usage of a design … a duplicated production environment in Dev and Staging order to understand how code will work ultimately when deployed.”