DevOps emerged as an important extension to support the Agile development for frequent and continuous software delivery. The adoption of Agile-DevOps for large scale enterprise agility depends on the most important human capability such as people competency and experience. Hence, academic education and professional training is key to the successful adoption of Agile-DevOps approach. Thus, education and training providers need to teach Agile-DevOps. However, the challenge is: how to establish and simulate an effective Agile-DevOps technology environment for teaching Enterprise Agile? This paper introduces the integrated Adaptive Enterprise Project Management (AEPM) and DevOps Reference Architecture (DRA) approach for adopting and teaching the Agile-DevOps with the help of a teaching case study from the University of Technology -Sydney (UTS), Australia. These learnings can be utilised by educators to develop and teach practice-oriented Agile-DevOps for software engineering courses. Furthermore, the experience and observations can be employed by researchers and practitioners aiming to integrate Agile-DevOps at the large enterprise scale.
There is a growing interest to adopt vendor-driven DevOps tools in organizations. However, it is not clear which tools to use in a reference architecture which enables the deployment of the emerging IoT applications to multi-cloud environments. A research-based and vendor-neutral DevOps reference architecture (DRA) framework has been developed to address this critical challenge. The DRA framework can be utilized to architect and implement the DevOps environment that enables automation and continuous integration of software applications deployment to multi-cloud. This paper confers and discusses the evaluation outcomes of the DRA framework at the DigiSAS research Lab. The evaluation outcomes present practical evidence about the applicability of the DRA framework. The evaluation results also indicate that the DRA framework provides general knowledge-base to researchers and practitioners about the adoption DevOps approach in reference architecture design for deploying IoT-applications to multi-cloud environments.
DevOps originated in the context of the agile development aims to enable the continuous deployment of software applications in small releases. Most recently, organizations are taking a significant interest in adopting DevOps for automatically deploying IoT applications to multi-cloud. The interest is there; however, the challenge is how to achieve this. A new DevOps reference architecture (DRA) framework has been iteratively developed to address this challenge. This paper presents the updated DRA framework and its empirical evaluation results. The empirical evaluation is composed of two phases: (1) industry case study evaluation conducted in an IT organization, and (2) industry field survey with a cohort of experts in software engineering. The evaluation aims to determine the applicability and novelty of the DRA framework. The evaluation results indicate that the DRA is fit for its intended purpose and is expected to help both researchers and practitioners. The DRA uses can architect complex design models for the purpose of supporting the automated development stage of software applications. Software engineers can implement the DRA models for deploying complex IoT application to the multi-cloud environment in the current organization development parameters.
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