SPECIAL ISSUES

Special Issue on “ Effective Utilization of DevOps in Version Control System Migration: A Holistic CI/CD Process

Dear Colleagues,

DevOps as a Service is a delivery model for a set of tools that facilitates collaboration between an organization's software development team and the operations team. In this delivery model, the DevOps as a Service provider provides disparate tools that cover various aspects of the overall process and connects these tools to work together as one unit. DevOps as a Service is the opposite of an in-house best-of-breed toolchain approach, in which the DevOps team uses a disconnected collection of discrete tools.

A notional objective of bringing a DevOps framework to CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deliveries) Technologies confronts several potential issues and pitfalls in terms of IOT devices’ infrastructure, architecture, interfacing, standardization, protocols, security, reliability, communication, optimization, and sustainable strategies for smart IOT devices. IoT and big data have many overlapping components, and IoT is considered a major source of big data.

This SI aims to present detailed research carried out in the field of information technology and communication systems in smart cities, IoT devices, and large- scale power systems. Different planning, operational, and implementation aspects are fully incorporated. In the current environment, the complex data and information gathered by CI/CD Technologies can be considered a big data set being gathered in real-time.

DevOps as a Service can appeal to organizations that lack internal DevOps expertise, or the budget to obtain or train employees with those skills. This approach also hides the complexities of data and information flow management up and down the toolchain. Various individuals and teams involved with the DevOps process can use intuitive interfaces to call on the aspects of the tooling they require, without having to understand how the entire toolchain works. For example, using the same DevOps as a Service offering, a developer can call upon source code management tools, a tester can check application performance management tools and the IT operations team can make changes with configuration management tools. This allows the team to monitor and report on activities that occur in the toolchain.

By integrating chosen elements of DevOps tooling into a single overarching system, DevOps as a Service aims to improve collaboration, monitoring, management, and reporting. An effective DevOps as a Service strategy enables a business to adopt a more flexible approach to its markets and bring forth new products and services as the market changes. DevOps and DevOps as a Service can coexist with traditional development and deployment processes. It can be used for anything from locating a connected device to understanding how that device is used by customers, to identifying anomalies.Data visualization is an important aspect of IoT analysis, aiding in the ability to identify key trends. Data visualization is needed to properly identify and convey the best data insights that can be used to drive business decisions. The final results generated by CI/CD Technologies areversatile, meaning they come in a variety of formats: structured, unstructured, and semi-structured.

This Special Issue aims at publishing high-quality manuscripts covering new research on topics related to the Integration of DevOps and cloud computing so that a holistic CI/CD process can be established to produce reliable business products. We invite research articles from all domains but not limited to the following:-

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