A DevOps Approach for Cyber-Physical System-of-Systems Engineering through Arrowhead

The stakeholders in the Cyber-Physical System-of-Systems (CPS, SoS, CPSoS) domains need to adopt current methodologies that enable reliable but also flexible and timely completion of development, integration, deployment, operation, and even maintenance-related tasks. The so-called DevOps (Development & Operations) approach has been proven in various other domains of IT-related service completion and operation. Both the technology set and the management approaches of CPS and SoS practitioners can benefit the adoption of the DevOps toolchain success stories - the everyday life of software, cloud and IT-service development, and operations-focused companies. This paper proposes an expansion of the application area of the DevOps models, toolchains, and even utilities to the CPS and SoS domains. It proposes to create an abstraction of CPS devices as reusable infrastructure resources, which can be then automatically re-purposed for new workflow tasks, as well as to fill the remaining DevOps tooling gaps with actual Systems of the Arrowhead Framework.