How the four key metrics from the State of DevOps Report apply to highly secure, critical mission environments? Many Federal system owners will claim that they “cannot do DevOps” because they believe that CI/CD will lead to an increase rate of change failure in production. While mission critical systems may have a lower error tolerance rate than others, the lead time required to resolve zero day vulnerabilities can be an entry point for a conversation on bringing in DevOps concepts and culture into traditional systems and environments.