Audition: a DevOps-oriented quality control and testing framework for cloud environments

Abstract

The primary goal of this thesis is to discover a new method to quality ensure, test and select the ideal virtual machine based on performance quality and price for arbitrarily large setups, modeled into a concept that is simple to understand and convey. This thesis demonstrates how theater production processes can be used to reduce conceptual complexity in automated release management for web environments. The prototype was demonstrated on two cases, one wordpress blog comprising of a database and server and one of a multi-tiered web-based application with five separated layers of operation. A fully operational extendiable framework, with a focus on simplicity is presented as a solution.