Unified DevOps Pipeline Platform for Containerized Application Deployment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current DevOps tools face challenges in managing multiple cloud deployments due to disparate interfaces and the need for manual steps to adhere to organizational processes and controls, leading to increased lead time for product delivery and resource requirements for upskilling.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for developing containerized applications using a pipeline platform with dynamically generated stages and associated development tools, where a configuration file is used to embed insert code, provision an opinionated pipeline, set up control gates, and package the application for deployment, ensuring compliance with organizational policies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple DevOps tools are used to enable automation of code integration and deployment, then rapid delivery is achieved, but teams face challenges in accessing, understanding, managing, and maintaining multiple complex and disparate systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple DevOps tools and functions into a single unified platform that provides automated code integration, deployment pipelines, and control gate enforcement. This consolidation maintains rapid delivery capabilities while eliminating the complexity of managing multiple disparate systems by providing a single integrated interface for all DevOps operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified DevOps platform performs multiple functions including code integration, automated testing, deployment orchestration, and compliance enforcement through control gates. This multi-functional approach replaces the need for separate specialized tools while maintaining comprehensive automation capabilities across the entire software delivery lifecycle.
2Reliability
If manual steps are performed to adhere to organizational business processes and controls, then compliance is ensured, but significant manual effort is required increasing lead time
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures control gates with organizational policies and compliance rules before the deployment process begins. These control gates are automatically enforced at each stage of the deployment pipeline, ensuring compliance requirements are met without requiring manual intervention during the actual deployment execution, thus maintaining reliability while reducing lead time.
Solution Approach 2:
The automated control gate system self-enforces compliance policies by automatically evaluating deployment requests against predefined organizational rules. The system performs self-validation and self-regulation without requiring manual compliance checks, thereby ensuring reliable compliance adherence while eliminating the time-consuming manual steps previously required.
3Reliability
If quality and security testing are performed in later stages, then comprehensive testing is achieved, but individual teams encounter redundant audit and compliance work requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the testing and compliance verification process into distinct control gates distributed across multiple deployment stages. Each control gate performs specific quality and security checks at the appropriate point in the pipeline, eliminating redundant auditing by ensuring each test is performed only once at the optimal stage rather than repeating checks across multiple teams and processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The control gate system implements continuous feedback loops where test results and compliance status are automatically communicated back to the deployment pipeline. This enables real-time quality assurance and security validation, allowing teams to address issues immediately rather than performing redundant checks later, thereby maintaining comprehensive testing while eliminating wasted time on duplicate audit work.
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AI summary
A method for developing a containerized application using a pipeline platform consisting of a plurality of stages with associated development tools, the method comprising the steps of: receiving application parameters and a check-in code for the containerized application; generating a configuration file based on the application parameters, the configuration file containing configuration content including insert code; embedding the insert code into the check-in code; dynamically provisioning an opinionated pipeline based on contents of the configuration file, the opinionated pipeline including the plurality of stages with the associated development tools; setting up one or more control gates in one or more of the plurality of stages; receiving customized code for the containerized application, the customized code representing modifications of the insert code; and packaging the containerized application to include code contents of the check-in code, the customized code, and the insert code; wherein the containerized application is submitted for deployment to one or more environment platforms upon satisfying the one or more control gates or the containerized application is restricted from the subsequent deployment based on failure of the one or more control gates.