Abstract By adopting agile and lean practices, DevOps aims to achieve rapid value delivery by speeding up development and deployment cycles, which however lead to more security concerns that cannot be fully addressed by an isolated security role only in the final stage of development. DevSecOps promotes security as a shared responsibility integrated into the DevOps process that seamlessly intertwines development, operations, and security from the start throughout to the end of cycles. While some companies have already begun to embrace this new strategy, both industry and academia are still seeking a common understanding of the DevSecOps movement. The goal of this study is to report the state‐of‐the‐practice of DevSecOps, including the impact of DevOps on security, practitioners' understanding of DevSecOps, and the practices associated with DevSecOps as well as the challenges of implementing DevSecOps. The authors used a mixed‐methods approach for this research. The authors carried out a grey literature review on DevSecOps, and surveyed the practitioners of DevSecOps in industry of China. The status quo of DevSecOps in industry is summarized. Three major software security risks are identified with DevOps, where the establishment of DevOps pipeline provides opportunities for security‐related activities. The authors classify the interpretations of DevSecOps into three core aspects of DevSecOps capabilities, cultural enablers, and technological enablers. To materialise the interpretations into daily software production activities, the recommended DevSecOps practices from three perspectives—people, process, and technology. Although a preliminary consensus is that DevSecOps is regarded as an extension of DevOps, there is a debate on whether DevSecOps is a superfluous term. While DevSecOps is attracting an increasing attention by industry, it is still in its infancy and more effort needs to be invested to promote it in both research and industry communities.

Context: Emerging from the agile culture, DevOps particularly emphasizes development and deployment speed to achieve rapid value delivery, which however brings some security risks to the software development process. DevSecOps is an extension of DevOps, which is considered as a means to intertwine development, operation and security. Some companies with security concerns begin to take DevSecOps into consideration when it comes to the application of DevOps. Objective: The goal of this study is to report the state-of-the-practice of DevSecOps as well as calling for academia to pay more attention to DevSecOps. Method: Using Google search engine to collect articles on DevSecOps, we conducted a Grey Literature Review (GLR) on the selected articles. Results: Whilst there exists three major software security risks in DevOps, the establishment of DevOps pipeline provides opportunities for software security activities. Based on the preliminary consensus that DevSecOps is an extension of DevOps, it is observed that the interpretations of DevSecOps can be classified into three core aspects, which are: DevSecOps capabilities, cultural enablers, and technological enablers. Furthermore, to materialize the interpretations into daily software production activities, the recommended DevSecOps practices we obtain from Grey Literature (GL) can be categorized in terms of process, infrastructure and collaboration. Conclusion: Although DevSecOps is getting increasing attention by industry, it is still in its infancy and needs to be promoted by both academia and industry.