Enabling Digital Transformation Using DRA

Digital transformation is about adapting to change using emerging digital technologies such as IoT. The dynamic nature of IoT drives forward the objectives of organizations to enable real-time interconnection between end-users and software products. Real-time interaction is achieved using IoT-applications deployed to multi-cloud. The multi-cloud coherent system provides a broad ecosystem of platform and infrastructure services to support the automated fast delivery of software applications. This article presents the DevOps reference architecture (DRA) for automating the IoT application deployment to multi-cloud in the overall context of digital transformation. The DRA design models are comprehensive blueprints that integrate the contexts of DevOps, multi-cloud, and Internet of Things (IoT). The aim of this paper is to explain how the DRA design models assist in digital transformation by adopting the DevOps approach to support IoT-applications interactions with edge IoT-devices. This paper introduces DRA-DT reference architecture as a holistic approach founded on DRA design models. The DRA-DT provides comprehensive integrated concepts, practices and tools-template that assist Digital Transformation (DT) in organizations. The DRA-DT offers reference models to support the digitization of Agile requirements and can be used by researchers and practitioners as a first-cut platform for support Digital Transformation.