Critical Challenges and Solutions for an Ultra-Large-Scale Enterprise DevOps Platform

As the enterprise IT systems continuously migrate to cloud, conventional waterfall development process model undermines system flexibility and brings some unacceptable disadvantages, such as slow delivery of business requirements, long release cycles and high risk of manual deployment. However, adopting the DevOps methodology can solve these problems as it helps enterprise develop and deliver IT systems and software products efficiently. Based on the widely adopted processes and toolchains, we have developed a novel ultra-large-scale enterprise application development platform, YunDao. Although it has achieved many successes and wide applications, some critical challenges still exist with the promotion and extensive use of this advanced platform. In this study, a preliminary analysis was conducted on the critical challenges during the operation and maintenance process. Some solutions were proposed and discussed to grapple with these issues to further optimize the platform. This work can contribute to the understanding the DevOps concept, yielding new insights into developing and optimizing other ultra-large-scale platforms.