An agile-devops reference architecture for teaching enterprise agile

©2019 The authors and IJLTER.ORG. All rights reserved. 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

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

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 reference architecture for multi-cloud IOT applications

© 2018 IEEE. There is a growing interest among organizations in adopting DevOps approach for IoT (Internet of Things) applications. However, the challenge is: how to apply DevOps when a multi-cloud heterogeneous environment is required for IoT application. This paper aims to addresses this important challenge and proposes a DevOps Reference Architecture (DRA) to deploy IoT-applications on multi-cloud. The proposed architecture is evaluated by the means of a case study, which involves deploying an IoT application on the chosen set of clouds. The results of this initial evaluation indicate that the proposed architecture would help practitioners and researchers to understand the usefulness and applicability of DevOps approach on multi-cloud platform for automating IoT application deployment