Part Five: Moving into the Future

In this part, we discuss how DevOps might evolve over the next few years. First, we have been doing research into DevOps for several years, and we describe our research results and directions. Second, we speculate more broadly about how DevOps will evolve.

In Chapter 1, we defined DevOps as a collection of processes specific to the goal of reducing the time between a commit and the code being in normal production. The business process management community had been working on process mining and modelling for many years. Our research has revolved around creating a process model for individual DevOps processes from logs and using that model to drive error detection, diagnosis, and recovery for the processes. We ...

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