Microservice Deployment

Modern software development requires agile methods to deploy and scale increasingly demanded distributed systems. Practitioners have adopted the microservices architecture to cope with the challenges posed by modern software demands.  However, the adoption and deployment of this architecture also creates technical and organizational challenges, potentially slowing down the development and operation teams, which require more time and effort to implement a quality deployment process that allows them to constantly release new features to production. The adoption of a DevOps culture, along with its practices and tools, alleviates some of these new challenges. In this paper we propose a guide for the deployment of systems with a microservices architecture, considering the practices of a DevOps culture, providing practitioners with a base path to start implementing the necessary platform for this architecture. We conducted this work following the Design Science Research Methodology for Information Systems (DSRM). In this way, we identified the problem, and also defined the solution objectives through the execution of a Systematic Literature Mapping and a Gray Literature Review, having as a result the proposed guide.  This work can be summarized as follows: (I) Identification of practices and technologies that support the deployment of microservices. (II) Identification of recommendations, challenges, and best practices for the deployment process. (III) Modeling of the microservices deployment process using SPEM. (IV) Integration of the knowledge in a guide to deploy microservices by adopting DevOps practices.

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