What Drives Changan Auto’s Success in Dual ITU DevOps Certification?

On May 29, 2024, China’s Central Cyberspace Administration, State Administration for Market Regulation, and Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly issued the Information Standard Construction Action Plan (2024‑2027) , emphasizing the promotion of internationalization of information standards, deep participation in ISO, IEC, ITU, and other bodies, and alignment of national and international standards.

The China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) launched a synchronized assessment based on both the ITU DevOps international standard and the domestic DevOps standard, upgrading evaluation scope, certificates, and reports to support the plan’s goals.

At the 24th GOPS Global Operations Conference in Shanghai on October 18, 2024, CAICT announced the dual certification results for Changan Automobile’s Digital Base Gaia Platform , which passed the ITU DevOps international assessment and the domestic DevOps Continuous Delivery Level‑3 and System & Tool Excellent‑Level evaluations, demonstrating leading domestic capabilities.

Assessment Unit: China Academy of Information and Communications Technology

Interview Highlights

Ren Zhe, General Manager of Changan Data Center introduced the company’s history, global R&D network, and the strategic shift toward intelligent, low‑carbon mobility since 2017.

The Gaia platform is described as a unified workbench for software personnel, offering one‑stop digital software development management, integrating standards, tools, and services to halve the requirement‑to‑delivery cycle and double innovation speed.

Why join the DevOps assessment? Ren explained four key motivations: improving R&D efficiency and quality, maintaining industry competitiveness, optimizing team collaboration, and enhancing risk management and compliance.

Liu Liang, Senior Digital Engineer highlighted the assessment’s impact: accelerated delivery, higher product quality, adoption of cutting‑edge tools, reduced operational costs, and stronger security and compliance.

Mu Xiyu, Senior Manager detailed challenges such as insufficient automated test coverage and CI pipeline inefficiencies, and described solutions including expanded test cases, custom data‑generation tools, parallel test execution, stricter dependency management, and enhanced CI/CD pipelines with containerization.

Future plans focus on integrating security as code, improving monitoring and feedback mechanisms, and leveraging AI‑driven automation within DevOps workflows.

Industry Participation

As of October 18, 2024, the automotive sector has completed numerous DevOps domestic standard assessments, with detailed statistics available from the official evaluation website.

Background on ITU DevOps Standards

The ITU‑DevOps international standard originated from a 2018 project led by CAICT at the ITU‑T conference in Geneva, involving representatives from over 20 countries.

The domestic DevOps standard, Research‑Development‑Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model , was jointly developed by CAICT, the Cloud Computing Open Source Industry Alliance, the Efficient Operations Community, and major internet companies, and has been adopted by many enterprises across finance, telecom, and internet sectors.

Both standards cover agile development management, continuous delivery, technical operations, security, system tools, business value management, collaborative development, continuous testing, performance metrics, platform engineering, and reliability engineering.