Architectural Support for DevOps in a Neo-Metropolis BDaaS Platform

Designing Software Architecture to Support Continuous Delivery and DevOps: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Shahin et al, 2016;Elberzhager et al, 2017;Villamizar et al, 2015;Schermann et al, 2018;Stahl andBosch, 2018 RQ2. Characteristics Stutevant, 2017;Chen, 2015b;Shahin et al, 2016;Pahl et al, 2018;Berger et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2015RQ3. Styles Shahin et al, 2016Elberzhager et al, 2017;Villamizar et al, 2015;Schermann et al, 2018;Pahl et al, 2018;Berger et al, 2017;Chen et al2015;Bass, 2017 As indicated in Table 1, there are papers that discuss potential software architectural issues of implementing CD/DevOps on existing systems in a meaningful way.…”

“…We observe in five out of the 14 papers make explicit statements on this. Chen et al (2015) describe the importance of software architecture with regard to DevOps as follows: "one cannot realize DevOps in a scalable way without building this into the architecture". These authors also state that architectural tactics must be implemented systemwide to support DevOps objectives (Chen et al, 2015).…”

“…As these literature sources (Erich et al, 2017;Ghantous and Gill, 2017;Senapathi et al, 2018;Chen, 2015) suggest, there are many potential benefits reported so far, and many of those are in fact indicated by multiple authors. In what follows, we aggregated and categorized the benefits reported by these sources in three categories: (1) benefits pertaining to culture, (2) to product quality, and (3) to development and operations processes.…”

“…After the second selection round, there were 13 papers left, these finally represent the body of literature to be used in the final stage of Kitchenham's SLR method (2007): data extraction and monitoring, and data synthesis. The papers are: Stutevant, 2017; Chen, 2015b;Erder and Pureur, 2015;Woods, 2016;Shahin et al, 2016;Elberzhager et al, 2017;Villamizar et al, 2015;Schermann et al, 2018;Stahl and Bosch, 2018;Pahl et al, 2018;Berger et al, 2017;Chen et al, 2015;Bass, 2017.…”

“…For clarity, before elaborating on the subject of this SLR, we present the definitions of the concepts that we will address: Software architecture of a system is the set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both (Humble and Farley, 2010). Continuous Delivery (CD) is a software engineering discipline in which teams keep producing valuable software incrementally in short cycles and ensure that the software can be reliably released at any time (Chen, 2015;Humble and Farley, 2010). DevOps is a set of practices intended to reduce the time between committing a change to a system and the change being placed into normal production, while ensuring high quality (Bass et al, 2015).…”