Multi-Project Multi-Environment Approach—An Enhancement to Existing DevOps and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Tools

Abstract

DevOps methodology and tools, which provide standardized ways for continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD), are invaluable for efficient software development. Current DevOps solutions, however, lack a useful functionality: they do not support simultaneous project developments and deployment on the same operating infrastructure (e.g., a cluster of Docker containers). In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address this shortcoming by defining a multi-project, multi-environment (MPME) approach. With this approach, a large company can organize many microservice-based projects operating simultaneously on a common code base, using self-hosted Kubernetes clusters, which helps developers and businesses to better focus on the product they are developing, and to reduce efforts on the management of their DevOps infrastructure.