  This report presents a first sketch of the Service Provider DevOps concept
including four major management processes to support the roles of both service
and VNF developers as well as the operator in a more agile manner. The sketch
is based on lessons learned from a study of management and operational
practices in the industry and recent related work with respect to management of
SDN and cloud. Finally, the report identifies requirements for realizing
SP-DevOps within an combined cloud and transport network environment as
outlined by the UNIFY NFV architecture.
