--- title: DevOps Practices in Government and the Public Sector description: Government IT faces unique challenges when adopting DevOps: strict compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53), slow procurement cycles, air-gapped... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/devops-practices-in-government-and-the-public-sector-qdrbcu87d twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: DevOps Practices in Government and the Public Sector | daily.dev og:description: Government IT faces unique challenges when adopting DevOps: strict compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53), slow procurement cycles, air-gapped... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/devops-practices-in-government-and-the-public-sector-qdrbcu87d og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/qDRbcU87D.png og:image:alt: DevOps Practices in Government and the Public Sector og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # DevOps Practices in Government and the Public Sector **[Spacelift](https://daily.dev/sources/spacelift)** · 11 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Government IT faces unique challenges when adopting DevOps: strict compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53), slow procurement cycles, air-gapped environments, legacy tech debt, and cultural resistance. The public sector is increasingly moving toward DevSecOps, embedding security throughout the pipeline via infrastructure as code, policy as code, shift-left security scanning, and continuous compliance validation. Key criteria for tooling include FedRAMP authorization, flexible deployment models (SaaS, self-hosted, air-gapped), built-in policy enforcement via OPA, RBAC, and procurement accessibility through government contract vehicles. Spacelift is highlighted as the first IaC orchestration platform to achieve FedRAMP authorization, supporting Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, CloudFormation, and Ansible from a single control plane. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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