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Towards a Full-Stack DevOps Environment (Platform-as-a-Service) for Cloud-Hosted Applications

Zhenhua Li, Yun Zhang, Yunhao Liu( )
School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
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Abstract

If every programmer of cloud-hosted apps possessed exceptional technical capability and endless patience, the DevOps environment (also known as Platform-as-a-Service, or PaaS) would perhaps become irrelevant. However, the reality is almost always the opposite case. Hence, IT engineers dream of a reliable and usable DevOps environment that can substantially facilitate their developments and simplify their operations. Current DevOps environments include Google App Engine, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, and so forth. In other words, PaaS bridges the gap between vivid IT engineers and stiff cloud systems. In this paper, we comprehensively examine state-of-the-art PaaS solutions across various tiers of the cloud-computing DevOps stack. On this basis, we identify areas of consensus and diversity in their philosophies and methodologies. In addition, we explore cutting-edge solutions towards realizing a more fine-grained, full-stack DevOps environment. From this paper, readers are expected to quickly grasp the essence, current status, and future prospects of PaaS.

Keywords

cloud computingPlatform-as-a-Service (PaaS)DevOpsdevelopmentoperationenvironment

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Tsinghua Science and Technology
Volume 22 Issue 1,
February 2017
Pages 1-9
DOI: 10.1109/TST.2017.7830891
Cite this article:
Li Z, Zhang Y, Liu Y. Towards a Full-Stack DevOps Environment (Platform-as-a-Service) for Cloud-Hosted Applications. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2017, 22(1): 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1109/TST.2017.7830891

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Received: 13 November 2016
Revised: 07 December 2016
Accepted: 08 December 2016
Published: 26 January 2017
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