Controlling deployment of software applications based on evaluating dependencies of the software applications

1. An apparatus comprising:

at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory;

the at least one processing device being configured to perform steps of:

monitoring development of a plurality of software applications, wherein monitoring the development of the plurality of software applications comprises tracking a plurality of work items, each of the plurality of work items being associated with development of at least one version of at least one of the plurality of software applications, and wherein tracking the plurality of work items comprises analyzing one or more source code repositories utilized by the plurality of software applications to identify a sequence of commits of software code in two or more different branches of one or more branching models utilized by the one or more source code repositories;

identifying, based at least in part on the monitoring, a first one of the plurality of software applications that has a given version ready for deployment to a production environment of an information technology infrastructure;

generating, based at least in part on the monitoring, in one or more data structures of the memory, a dependency graph comprising a plurality of nodes representing the plurality of work items and edges connecting the nodes representing dependency relationships between the plurality of work items, wherein a first subset of the plurality of nodes represent software code of different ones of the plurality of work items and a second subset of the plurality of nodes represent natural language descriptions of software application features of different ones of the plurality of work items;

determining, based at least in part on processing by the processor of the one or more data structures comprising the generated dependency graph, at least one dependency between at least a first one of the plurality of work items associated with the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications and at least a second one of the plurality of work items associated with a given version of at least a second one of the plurality of software applications, the at least one dependency being determined at least in part by identifying at least one of the edges of the dependency graph that connects (i) a given one of the nodes in the first subset of the plurality of nodes representing software code of the first work item for the given version of the first application and (ii) a given one of the nodes in the second subset of the plurality of nodes representing a natural language description of software application features of the second work item for the given version of the second application;

evaluating a deployment status of the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications; and

controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure based at least in part on (i) the determined dependency between the first one of the plurality of work items associated with the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications and the second one of the plurality of work items associated with the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications, (ii) the evaluated deployment status of the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications and (iii) a commit status of the first and second ones of the plurality of work items;

wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure comprises preventing deployment of at least a portion of one or more features of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications that have dependencies with the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the first one of the plurality of software applications is developed by a first software vendor and the second one of the plurality of software applications is developed by a second software vendor different than the first software vendor.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein evaluating the deployment status of the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications comprises determining whether the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications has been deployed in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure comprises, responsive to determining that the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications has been deployed in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure, allowing deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure.

5. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure comprises, responsive to determining that the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications has not been deployed in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure, identifying the one or more features of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications that have dependencies with the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications.

6. The apparatus of claim 5 wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure further comprises determining whether the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications has available feature toggles for the identified one or more features.

7. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure further comprises, responsive to determining that the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications has available feature toggles for the identified one or more features, utilizing the available feature toggles to disable the identified one or more features and allowing deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure with the identified one or more features disabled.

8. The apparatus of claim 7 wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure further comprises, responsive to determining that the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications has been deployed in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure subsequent to deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure with the identified one or more features disabled, utilizing the available feature toggles to enable the identified one or more features.

9. The apparatus of claim 6 wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure further comprises, responsive to determining that the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications does not have available feature toggles for the identified one or more features, blocking deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure further comprises, responsive to determining that the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications has been deployed in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure subsequent to blocking the deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure, allowing deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the two or more different branches of the one or more branching models utilized by the one or more source code repositories comprise at least two of a feature branch, a develop branch and a master branch.

12. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein identifying the sequence of commits of the software code in the two or more different branches of the one or more branching models utilized by the one or more source code repositories comprises identifying commits that have changes merged from at least a first one of the two or more different branches associated with a non-production environment to at least a second one of the two or more different branches associated with the production environment.

13. A computer program product comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored therein program code of one or more software programs, wherein the program code when executed by at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory causes the at least one processing device to perform steps of:

monitoring development of a plurality of software applications, wherein monitoring the development of the plurality of software applications comprises tracking a plurality of work items, each of the plurality of work items being associated with development of at least one version of at least one of the plurality of software applications, and wherein tracking the plurality of work items comprises analyzing one or more source code repositories utilized by the plurality of software applications to identify a sequence of commits of software code in two or more different branches of one or more branching models utilized by the one or more source code repositories;

identifying, based at least in part on the monitoring, a first one of the plurality of software applications that has a given version ready for deployment to a production environment of an information technology infrastructure;

generating, based at least in part on the monitoring, in one or more data structures of the memory, a dependency graph comprising a plurality of nodes representing the plurality of work items and edges connecting the nodes representing dependency relationships between the plurality of work items, wherein a first subset of the plurality of nodes represent software code of different ones of the plurality of work items and a second subset of the plurality of nodes represent natural language descriptions of software application features of different ones of the plurality of work items;

determining, based at least in part on processing by the processor of the one or more data structures comprising the generated dependency graph, at least one dependency between at least a first one of the plurality of work items associated with the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications and at least a second one of the plurality of work items associated with a given version of at least a second one of the plurality of software applications, the at least one dependency being determined at least in part by identifying at least one of the edges of the dependency graph that connects (i) a given one of the nodes in the first subset of the plurality of nodes representing software code of the first work item for the given version of the first application and (ii) a given one of the nodes in the second subset of the plurality of nodes representing a natural language description of software application features of the second work item for the given version of the second application;

evaluating a deployment status of the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications; and

controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure based at least in part on (i) the determined dependency between the first one of the plurality of work items associated with the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications and the second one of the plurality of work items associated with the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications, (ii) the evaluated deployment status of the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications and (iii) a commit status of the first and second ones of the plurality of work items;

wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure comprises preventing deployment of at least a portion of one or more features of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications that have dependencies with the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 wherein evaluating the deployment status of the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications comprises determining whether the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications has been deployed in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure, and wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure comprises, responsive to determining that the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications has not been deployed in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure:

identifying the one or more features of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications that have dependencies with the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications; and

determining whether the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications has available feature toggles for the identified one or more features.

15. The computer program product of claim 14 wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure further comprises:

responsive to determining that the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications has available feature toggles for the identified one or more features, utilizing the available feature toggles to disable the identified one or more features and allowing deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure with the identified one or more features disabled; and

responsive to determining that the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications does not have available feature toggles for the identified one or more features, blocking deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure.

16. A method performed by at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory, the method comprising:

monitoring development of a plurality of software applications, wherein monitoring the development of the plurality of software applications comprises tracking a plurality of work items, each of the plurality of work items being associated with development of at least one version of at least one of the plurality of software applications, and wherein tracking the plurality of work items comprises analyzing one or more source code repositories utilized by the plurality of software applications to identify a sequence of commits of software code in two or more different branches of one or more branching models utilized by the one or more source code repositories;

identifying, based at least in part on the monitoring, a first one of the plurality of software applications that has a given version ready for deployment to a production environment of an information technology infrastructure;

generating, based at least in part on the monitoring, in one or more data structures of the memory, a dependency graph comprising a plurality of nodes representing the plurality of work items and edges connecting the nodes representing dependency relationships between the plurality of work items, wherein a first subset of the plurality of nodes represent software code of different ones of the plurality of work items and a second subset of the plurality of nodes represent natural language descriptions of software application features of different ones of the plurality of work items;

determining, based at least in part on processing by the processor of the one or more data structures comprising the generated dependency graph, at least one dependency between at least a first one of the plurality of work items associated with the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications and at least a second one of the plurality of work items associated with a given version of at least a second one of the plurality of software applications, the at least one dependency being determined at least in part by identifying at least one of the edges of the dependency graph that connects (i) a given one of the nodes in the first subset of the plurality of nodes representing software code of the first work item for the given version of the first application and (ii) a given one of the nodes in the second subset of the plurality of nodes representing a natural language description of software application features of the second work item for the given version of the second application;

evaluating a deployment status of the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications; and

controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure based at least in part on (i) the determined dependency between the first one of the plurality of work items associated with the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications and the second one of the plurality of work items associated with the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications, (ii) the evaluated deployment status of the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications and (iii) a commit status of the first and second ones of the plurality of work items;

wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure comprises preventing deployment of at least a portion of one or more features of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications that have dependencies with the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein evaluating the deployment status of the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications comprises determining whether the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications has been deployed in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure, and wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure comprises, responsive to determining that the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications has not been deployed in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure:

identifying the one or more features of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications that have dependencies with the given version of the second one of the plurality of software applications; and

determining whether the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications has available feature toggles for the identified one or more features.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein controlling deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure further comprises:

responsive to determining that the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications has available feature toggles for the identified one or more features, utilizing the available feature toggles to disable the identified one or more features and allowing deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure with the identified one or more features disabled; and

responsive to determining that the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications does not have available feature toggles for the identified one or more features, blocking deployment of the given version of the first one of the plurality of software applications in the production environment of the information technology infrastructure.

19. The method of claim 16 wherein the two or more different branches of the one or more branching models utilized by the one or more source code repositories comprise at least two of a feature branch, a develop branch and a master branch.

20. The method of claim 16 wherein identifying the sequence of commits of the software code in the two or more different branches of the one or more branching models utilized by the one or more source code repositories comprises identifying commits that have changes merged from at least a first one of the two or more different branches associated with a non-production environment to at least a second one of the two or more different branches associated with the production environment.