Tag Archives: automated deployment

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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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

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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

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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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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

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