A DevOps Introduction Process for Legacy Systems

Abstract

Legacy systems are a challenge for the operations of modern organizations as they limit the growth of business and their changing ability. However, they are often systems suited to their purpose, they deliver the expected value and investment in them is justifiable. The concept of DevOps has come to reduce the separation between development and operations teams in software development companies, decreasing the product lifecycle. With this concept comes the practice of continuous delivery, allowing teams to deliver and deploy any version of their software in any computing environment at any time through a fully automated process. This practice improves the feedback of the development process, so problems could be identified and resolved as early as possible. In this paper, we present an experience of deploying DevOps, and propose a structured process for deploying DevOps and its modifications necessary to adapt to legacy systems in order to the delivery process of the legacy systems has a short and high quality lifecycle, delivering frequent versions in an automated way.