Sistema de apoio ao projeto e implantação de infraestrutura em nuvem

Abstract

The demand for technology professionals in various fields has increased sharply in recent years and is projected to continue to grow. In contrast, the training of professionals to occupy these positions is insufficient. As a result, companies resort to hiring people with little or no training in the area and overload senior professionals. Another point that permeates this situation is the poor communication between multidisciplinary teams, as a result of the lack of knowledge of the processes of other areas or the lack of experience of the team members. To assist in the optimization of cloud infrastructure provisioning processes, one of the technological areas lacking professionals, this work develops a platform to simplify communication between different teams with professionals at different levels of expertise, reducing the number of steps necessary for the completion of the process. From an external point of view, these two problems – poor communication and lack of professionals in the market – do not appear to be connected, but together they lead to rework within companies, non-compliance with deadlines, and, above all, high project costs. A visual, intuitive, and automation-based approach is defined to mitigate this scenario and presented in this work. Model Driven Architecture concepts are used to take attention away from the tooling and put it on the problem that the team has to solve. The process is divided into steps that go from a higher and abstract level, where the problem is situated in the real world, to steps belonging to a lower and concrete level, where the problem is transposed to the infrastructure. The entire process is performed by manipulating diagrams for each type of professional or process step and managed by a Domain-Specific Visual Language. The processes that require final artifacts such as documentation or code are automated using the languages built for each purpose.