Tag Archives: application release automation
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
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
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
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
Agent vs Agentless Deployments Part 3 – You Decide
In the previous two posts we looked at the pros and cons of SSH and Agent based deployment scenarios. Both solutions have advantages and disadvantages and everyone will have an opinion of which they prefer. If you’d asked me this … Continue reading
Agent vs Agentless Deployments Part 2: SSH Based Deployments
Agentless deployments usually rely on some native process running on the target server that can be leveraged to provide access for performing deployment type operations. In this post we’ll look at the very popular and widely used Ssh protocol for … Continue reading
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
Agent vs Agentless Deployments Part 1: Agent Based Deployments
Agent based deployments rely on the presence of a running process and associated connection port(s) on the target infrastructure as a means to transport files and/or execute actions or commands. Agents can also be used to discover configurations on target … Continue reading
