Continuous Delivery with Deployit, Puppet, JBoss and VMware

It all started with a simple customer question: “How can we cut down our deployment time so we can deploy a bigger volume of applications, more often"?  Charl Vermeer, Project Manager.

In this guest post, Mark van Holsteijn, Principal Consultant with one of XebiaLabs’ implementation partners, explains how integrating Deployit with enterprise open source middleware and provisioning solutions including JBoss and Puppet delivers a fully automated on-demand Java Application Platform.

The government customer was looking to quickly move away from an expensive, hard-to-manage monolithic stack to a cost-efficient virtual platform based on proven technologies and support reliable, automated configuration, provisioning, deployment and monitoring.

the application release component and thus interface to continuous delivery, plays a central role in the new platform’s automation chain, reducing the number of experts supporting deployments and preventing configuration errors.
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Why Application Release Automation needs a Release and an Operations view

As the interface between Development and Operations, Application Release Management1 handles information that is highly relevant to your Release and Operations teams. Selecting an Application Release Automation solution that provides insight and analytics from both perspectives is thus a key component of an effective DevOps strategy.

Here, we explain how Deployit's Infrastructure and new Release Overview features help you achieve this goal.
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Taking Application Release Automation to the Next Level

Whether the driver is Agile, Cloud or DevOps1, or a "plain old" efficiency drive or process improvement initiative, forward-thinking organisations are currently looking for ways to improve their application release processes through automation. In an area where manual activities are still all too common, it's unsurprising that the initial focus has been on automating the deployment execution - moving all the bits to the right places.

What early adopters have learnt is that, at the enterprise scale, automating release execution quickly introduces a new bottleneck in today's dynamic IT environments: continuous management of the deployment plan definition. A new generation of application release automation (ARA) tooling avoids this pitfall by leveraging intelligence to automate deployment planning as well as execution.
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Leading Real Estate and Financial Services Entity chooses Deployit

Kadaster choose Deployit because of its user friendly UI, unique acceleration capabilities and comprehensive reporting.

Kadaster is a major real estate and financial services entity in the Netherlands and their online presence drives their business. As a government agency Kadaster acts as a trusted source for important data, including the Geo data for the entire country. “We rely on the internet to reach our public. Pushing our online applications out to the public faster is critical for both our business and IT strategy for 2012 and 2013", says Kadaster.

JBoss is the preferred middleware for Kardaster deployments and the IT team attempted to optimize delivery to JBoss with the JBoss Operations Network. However, Kadaster needed more than just an automation tool, they needed an automation platform that offered a User Friendly UI, optimized reporting and features focused on specifically accelerating the deployment process. "We were impressed with Deployit's slick UI, robust reporting and algorithm-based acceleration features. Also, very important to our team was the confidence that we could easily plug in and plug out this solution and potentially let it evolve with our longterm strategy. Deployit met each one of our needs", continues Kadaster.

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Make Deployit Part of Your 2012 Release Team

Deployit is the choice solution for Enterprises with growing release teams. The product is rich in features that enable Enterprise Release Teams to drive applications out quickly and efficiently. Deployit is the perfect compliment to your hand selected application release team, for 2012. With online business becoming increasingly critical, your application release team are assuming increased relevance. Enable them with the best tooling.

Powered by Deployit, your Release team can automatically deploy applications across one comprehensive deployment platform. The team can stay aligned with the lifecycle of each release with access to robust release reporting that reports across all major middleware and cloud environments. The team can enjoy critical release lifecycle transparency with slick role-based user access to the platform. All Deployit features are built on a robust platform that automatically calculates deployment steps, increasing speed and efficiency and the a platform boasts a user-friendly UI.   An excellent team, backed by a cutting edge release automation tool can guarantee that you release applications on time, every time for 2012.

Highlighted Feature: Release Authorization

Among the most influential features in Deployit’s newest release is the Release Authorization feature. It is now possible to declare conditions that must be met before a deployment package is deployed to a particular environment. This adds another element of control for the Deployit user and ensures accurate and auditable activity at every stage of the deployment cycle.

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XebiaLabs teams up with Cachet Software Solutions

XebiaLabs teams up with Cachet Software Solutions to bring excellence in Deployment Automation to the UK and Irish markets.  Cachet Software Solutions focuses on delivering “Best of Breed” ITIL/ITSM solutions to mid to large UK businesses.

“We at Cachet Software have been combing the market for a leading Application Release Automation (ARA) solution for some time now. Our customers often ask us for such a solution. We are delighted to have discovered XebiaLabs and we find Deployit a truly unique approach with its intelligent algorithmic approach to deployment. Most everything else we looked at used workflows and that is not what our customers want. The fact that Deployit was chosen by a such a large organisation such as AirFrance-KLM also gives us full confidence that we are bringing the right ARA solution to the UK and Irish marketplace,” says Stuart Kenely, Managing Director of Cachet Solutions.

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Continuously Deploy with Bamboo and Deployit

This is a guest blog post by Vincent Partington, CTO and Co-founder of XebiaLabs. Vincent saw a need to standardize deployment automation that gave way to a the startup – XebiaLabs – makers of Deployit.

Over the past five to ten years, continuous integration has become a no-brainer for every medium to large scale software development project. It’s hard to imagine going back to not having every commit (or push) automatically trigger a build and a test run of the code. That test run would have surely included unit tests, but setting it up to also run integration tests used to be difficult. You would have needed to automatically deploy the application to the target middleware environment and then run the integration tests against that environment.

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Auto-map to all major middleware environments with Deployit, by XebiaLabs

XebiaLabs announce the addition of three features that will further enhance the scalability of the Deployit platform.

  • Tag-based Deployments: Deployit now automatically maps configuration items in your deployment packages to middleware in your environment.
  • Control Tasks: Deployit is equipped with Control Tasks, allowing privileged users to troubleshoot middleware problems by starting, stopping or restarting middleware, directly from the Deployit UI.
  • Webserver plugin: Deployit allows static content to be deployed to directly to webservers.

Deployit offers the Enterprise one deployment automation platform to optimize the release of applications to all major middleware environments (IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Liferay) and to cloud environments (VMware, Red Hat & IBM).

Deployit is the proven fastest and most reliable way to deliver online applications.

Don't forget that you can cross reference your deployment paths to multiple environments with Deployit's builtin reporting. This feature enables accurate auditing and comprehensive deployment planning and analysis in hetrogeneous eco-systems.

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“Gartner Research Cites Application Release Automation Tools as Key to DevOps” – Sign up for Webinar and Learn how ARA Powers DevOps

Webinar Details:
Date and Time: Nov 10th, 12pm (EST)

Join this webinar and learn how to accelerate your application delivery to middleware and cloud environments, with a turn-key application release automation platform, Deployit 3.5.

Understand why application release automation is an essential part of a comprehensive DevOps strategy and hear how large enterprises have approached the implementation of application release automation tooling in their environments.

Attend & learn:

6 ways to support your DevOps Strategy.
The advantages of algorithm-based Application Release Automation, as part of a leading DevOps Strategy.
How AirFrance-KLM saved $1million, per annum, in OPEX with their automation efforts.
How your business can save up to 75% in application Time to Market.
5 ways you can cut costs by implementing application release automation tooling.
and more.....

There will be a full demo of Deployit 3.5 and a deep dive discussion on Deployit 3.5 features.

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Government agency achieves 75% improvement in Deployment Speeds, with Deployit 3.5

The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce chooses Deployit to maximize productivity and reduce time to market for applications

BOSTON, MA--(October 27th, 2011) - XebiaLabs, the leading provider of enterprise-class application release automation solutions today announces that Deployit was selected by The Netherlands Chamber to enable their deployment team with an automated platform for speedy and efficient deployments.

The government agency had previously run an automation platform in their environment but the existing platform was not producing the deployment speeds that would be necessary for the Chamber to reach its aggressive deployment plans for 2012 - 2017. The decision to rip and replace came just before a planned boost in deployments for the company as they prepared for a 20% increase in the number of applications, a month. The Chamber has already reported a 75% increase in speed to market for applications.

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