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DevOps benefits: A systematic literature review

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A Systematic Literature Review on DevOps Capabilities and Areas

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Businesses today need to respond to customer needs at an unprecedented speed. Driven by this need for speed, many companies are rushing to the DevOps movement. DevOps, the combination of Development and Operations, is a new way of thinking in the software engineering domain that recently received much attention. Since DevOps has recently been introduced as a new term and novel concept, no common understanding of what it means has yet been achieved. Therefore, the definitions of DevOps often are only partly relevant to the concept. This research presents a systematic literature review to identify the determining factors contributing to the implementation of DevOps, including the main capabilities and areas with which it evolves.

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DevOps, a game-changing methodology that unites software development and IT operations, is now fundamental to the state of the art in software engineering. The backbone of this approach is something called a "DevOps pipeline," which consists of automated operations coordinating code integration, testing, deployment, and monitoring. The purpose of this research is to improve our knowledge of DevOps pipelines and make their deployment more efficient. The study begins out with a deep dive into DevOps's background, illuminating its relevance in boosting software delivery speeds and final product quality. Best practices and frequent issues related with DevOps pipelines are identified via a thorough examination of current literature and real-world case studies. Strategies for addressing security flaws, integration difficulties, and scalability problems are discussed, providing significant insights for developers and academics alike. The study also looks at how containerization, microservices design, and serverless computing are affecting the future of DevOps. It offers a prospective look at the development of DevOps principles by assessing their effect on pipeline productivity, resource use, and scalability. An improved DevOps pipeline is provided in practice to corroborate the theoretical conclusions.

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DevOps bridges the gap between software development and operations to provide rapid deliveries and integrated collaboration. However, DevOps entails lots of factors and challenges involved in its implementation including technical, organizational and personnel aspects. Focusing on the last set of aspects, this paper identifies current DevOps job roles, an aspect that is crucial to implement and to support DevOps practices in organizations. It also highlights collaboration between different actors under different automation levels in DevOps to deliver software at high speed.

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ABSTRACT: The present review aims to identify the benefits, challenges, and guidelines associated with DevOps adoption. We argued that guidelines across multiple platforms are needed to succeed in DevOps implementation. Due to a lack of guidelines and precise methods, the benefits are not clear and not known in the research community. In this paper, a systematic literature review is carried out while adhering to its guidelines. The search spanned over ten (10) digital libraries most commonly used in similar studies: ACM Digital Library, ScienceDirect, EBSCOhost, SAGE Journals, Wiley Online Library, ProQuest, Ebsco Discovery Service, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Springer Link. The review also included a keyword to search the relevant study “DevOps guidelines, DevOps and guidelines, DevOps benefits, DevOps and benefits, DevOps challenges, DevOps and challenges”. Papers written in English and published from 2011 through July 2020 were considered. Thirty-three studies passed the two-step quality assessment. Finally, the data were extracted and analysed using an excel data sheet based on the themes and research questions, revealing the benefits and challenges of DevOps adoption guidelines.   This review shows that improved software delivery speed increases code quality and application quality with frequent releases. It also shows that there was no transparent scientific approach to determining the DevOps capabilities regarding the process, practice, tools, and implementations, cost implications, and insufficient knowledge of the automation process. Finally, the reviewed studies indicated that the software quality increases whenever DevOps best practices are adopted.   DevOps is about continuous software delivery. Previous studies have not considered the guidelines for scientifically adopting DevOps for organisations that want to migrate. The present review identified the DevOps adoption guideline model represented in a cyclic format that indicates an infinite process representing continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment, with an understanding of benefits and challenges.

Keywords: DevOps guidelines, challenges, benefits, automation, systematic literature review (SLR)