The DevOps Reference Architecture Evaluation : A Design Science Research Case Study

Abstract

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 phases across Software Development Lifecycle

“…Logging needs to be used effectively to monitor application logs. Logging mechanism works at multiple levels and should be configured to analyse the logs by drilling down when needed [18].…”

On the design of enterprise ontology-driven software development

“…On the other hand, if the processes are there, but the product is not easily adaptable, changing the product will still take a lot of time. For example, a closet with fixed shelves is harder to change, if possible at all, than a closet with a flexible shelf system in case you need to make space for a book that is taller than the current shelf height [45] (see Figure 1 For agility in software development, SCRUM 5 and DevOps 6 are well-adopted (best) practices [302,235,78,422,64,100,172,283]. At the same time there seem to be many issues with their adoption [6,235].…”