A comparison between Cloud Solutions with focus on DevOps tooling

Abstract

The DevOps philosophy keeps gaining popularity due to its practices that allow companies to quickly deliver software changes to their customers. Along with this advent, Cloud Solutions continue to expand their customer base for InfrastructureAsAService (IaaS) and PlatformAsAService (PaaS) offerings. The amalgamation of these two concepts result in an opportunity to significantly reduce the risks of managing the integration and delivery processes involved in the Software Development Life Cycle, by relying on agile practices and the abstraction of complex infrastructure elements. This study illustrates how a Cloudbased DevOps environment can bring benefits to Enterprise level development teams through the comparison of two Cloud solutions: Google Cloud Platform and IBM Bluemix, by assembling a Deployment Pipeline on each one and exploring additional features that support DevOps tooling.