This article is based on a report originally published by dev-insider.de in November 2018.
Overview
Infosys, the multinational IT services and consulting company, released an open-source DevOps platform made available on GitHub as a community edition. The platform is positioned as an integrated solution to help enterprises adopt agile and DevOps-oriented software delivery practices without building foundational tooling from the ground up.
Pre-Built Pipelines and Scripts
One of the platform’s headline features is the volume of ready-to-use automation it ships with:
- 2,000+ predefined scripts covering common DevOps tasks across the software delivery lifecycle.
- 150+ pre-configured DevOps pipelines designed to accelerate the implementation of continuous integration (CI), continuous testing, and continuous delivery (CD).
The goal is to significantly reduce the time it takes to get a new application or service from initial development to a production-ready state, by eliminating the need to author pipeline logic from scratch for common scenarios.
Broad Tool and Technology Coverage
A recurring challenge with DevOps platforms is tool lock-in. Infosys addressed this by making the platform as tool-agnostic as possible. According to the original report, the preconfigured pipelines integrate with:
- 25+ technologies
- 70+ tools
This breadth is intended to cover the full spectrum of application types that large enterprises typically manage, including:
- Custom-built and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software
- Big data applications
- Mobile applications
- Legacy systems
- Cloud-native applications
Full Lifecycle Automation and Visibility
The platform is designed to automate the entire software artifact lifecycle—from the initial development phase through to production deployment. Beyond automation, Infosys emphasized real-time visibility as a core platform capability:
- Stakeholders can monitor active pipeline steps and code status in real time.
- All project participants—developers, testers, operations teams, and business stakeholders—can track delivery progress without needing to query individual tools.
- Feedback loops from end users can be surfaced within the same platform view.
Security and Compliance Features
The platform includes several built-in mechanisms aimed at making secure software delivery the default rather than an afterthought:
- Role-based DevOps workflows to enforce separation of duties and limit access to sensitive pipeline stages.
- Encrypted job execution to protect sensitive configuration data and credentials in transit and at rest within the platform.
- Integrated security scanning designed to identify vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle—consistent with the shift-left security philosophy.
- Compliance and data protection guardrails built into the pipeline configuration layer.
Availability
The community edition of the Infosys DevOps platform was made available on GitHub. Teams looking to evaluate the platform should search for the current Infosys repository directly on GitHub, as repository locations and names may have changed since the original 2018 announcement.
Summary
For DevOps teams at large enterprises dealing with heterogeneous application portfolios and tool sprawl, a platform with pre-built pipelines and broad tool integration can substantially reduce the time spent on pipeline engineering. The Infosys open-source DevOps platform is worth evaluating if your team needs a structured starting point that covers CI, CD, security scanning, and stakeholder visibility out of the box—particularly if you are managing a mix of cloud, legacy, and mobile workloads.