DECIDE: An extended DevOps framework for multi-cloud applications

DevOps represents a model for application development that enables close collaboration between software developers and IT operations with the objective of implementing continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous development of software applications. This paper proposes an approach for extending the DevOps philosophy with the objective of supporting the development and operation of multi-cloud native applications deployed over heterogeneous cloud resources. The authors present the extended DECIDE DevOps framework and the supporting tool suite developed in the context of the DECIDE H2020 action.