Multi-Project Multi-Environment Approach—An Enhancement to Existing DevOps and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Tools
Baasanjargal Erdenebat, Bayarjargal Bud, Temuulen Batsuren, Tamás Kozsik · Computers · 2023
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.