Automated DevOps Pipeline Generation for Code Repositories using Large Language Models

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Automating software development processes through the orchestration of GitHub Action workflows has revolutionized the efficiency and agility of software delivery pipelines.

• This paper presents a detailed investigation into the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) specifically, GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 to generate and evaluate GitHub Action workflows for DevOps tasks.
• Our methodology involves data collection from public GitHub repositories, prompt engineering for LLM utilization, and evaluation metrics encompassing exact match scores, BLEU scores, and a novel DevOps Aware score.
• The research scrutinizes the proficiency of GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 in generating GitHub workflows, while assessing the influence of various prompt elements in constructing the most efficient pipeline.