How must the IT Operations team be integrated with DevOps practices into an existing organization?

While organizational restructuring might occur, DevOps emphasizes collaboration and shared responsibility over mandating a single combined team structure, which may not be practical for all existing organizations.

Operations acting as a gatekeeper by simply approving documentation and deployments is a traditional approach that DevOps seeks to move beyond, favoring continuous collaboration and automation over manual approval bottlenecks.

Enforcing formal peer reviews is a valuable practice for quality assurance, but it is a specific process step rather than the overarching strategy for fully integrating operations into the entire project lifecycle as advocated by DevOps principles.

A fundamental principle of DevOps is breaking down silos between development and operations teams and promoting early, continuous collaboration. By involving the IT Operations team from the beginning of each project, they can contribute their expertise on operational requirements, infrastructure, monitoring, and deployment strategies, preventing issues later in the lifecycle and ensuring that operational concerns are built-in from the start.