Category Archives: Configuration

All about managing configuration and configuration drift.

5 Ways to Supercharge Your WebSphere Deployments

1) Deploy Applications and Their Configurations Together The simple part of WebSphere deployments is the installation of the application itself. The complexity is in the provision of the application dependencies – container configuration, data-sources, web services connections, JMS resources, etc. … Continue reading

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The Golden Configuration: Right First Time, Every Time

The Current Landscape Most organizations do not have the concept of a golden configuration and middleware technologies are managed and deployed in an uncontrolled manner. During the development lifecycle from dev to prod different teams are involved. Also, different people … Continue reading

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Big Bang or Incremental Migration Towards Automation – People, Process, Tools

You’ve Made Your Choice – Automation No more ad-hoc management of your middleware and database technologies – you’re getting automation Reduced number of technologies doing the same thing in different ways – you’re consolidating Reduced number of Single Points of … Continue reading

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What’s the Truth? IBM WebSphere MQ Deployments

Java guys and other application developers have been doing it for years (decades!) – writing code, storing it in a Source Code Management tool, building it and deploying it through their “route to live”. WebSphere MQ Deployments are a bit of a … Continue reading

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Market Adoption for Application Release Automation

As a developer you have a wealth of commercial and open source tools available to assist in build automation: tools like Hudson, Jenkins or Rational Team Concert for build, Maven or Ivy for dependency management, CheckStyle,  Cobertura, Agitar, etc. for … Continue reading

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Combating Configuration Drift

Even with processes, the most diligent of (human) resources and the best will in the world, computer environments change from their documented (intended) configuration over time. The likelihood of such changes tends to increase with how much the environment is … Continue reading

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DevOps in a Box

DevOps is the word on technologists’ lips right now – everyone is trying to define it, demystify it and solve the challenges that the traditional demarcation of the territories between the development and operations teams create. These challenges are becoming … Continue reading

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Handling Composite Deployments

Increasingly, enterprise applications are made up of many deployable components. Typical application solutions consist of numerous technology components; a database with a specific version of schema and data, some versioned WMQ object definitions, a version of a J2EE application running … Continue reading

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