Soeldner JH, Ajouaoui L, Fritzsche A, Soeldner G (2023)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2023
Conference Proceedings Title: 5th International Conference Business Meets Technology
DOI: 10.4995/bmt2023.2023.16741
Cloud Computing allows companies to scale seamlessly, providing a broad range of state-of-the-art services. Another promise is to free users from the operational and adminis- trative burdens. However, with the advent of cloud-native applications, this promise becomes questionable - especially when DevOps principles are used during development. Experience in practice shows that teams often struggle dealing with both the infrastructure, finding the right architecture, and implementing business logic. When working in decentralized teams, things are even worse, as standardization across teams cannot be assumed. To tackle those issues, automation by means of techniques such as Infrastructure-as-code help to ease to cope with infrastructural concerns. However, when working with several teams in a decentralized manner, operational overhead is still there. Organizations struggle with standardization of infrastruc- ture code and there is no clear centralized visibility for security-related concerns within the development lifecycle. To address these issues, we propose two things: First, building up a Platform Team, which serves as an organizational structure for continuous delivery. A Platform Teams can be the size of a typical small DevOps Team and support the whole organization with standardized security-hardened modules. Second, an Ops-Platform is needed that is operated by the Platform Team to centrally provide and maintain those modules. Other Dev-Teams can then consume those modules. In this paper, we report insights from the implementation of this approach in practice. We find out that developers are 75% less focused on operations by using such a platform and name specific success factors.
APA:
Soeldner, J.-H., Ajouaoui, L., Fritzsche, A., & Soeldner, G. (2023). Platform Engineering for cloud-native organizations. In 5th International Conference Business Meets Technology. Valencia, ES.
MLA:
Soeldner, Jens-Henrik, et al. "Platform Engineering for cloud-native organizations." Proceedings of the 5th International Conference Business Meets Technology, Valencia 2023.
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