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VP of Product Management

Recap: Continuous Integration to Continuous Deployment with Jenkins and Deployit webinar

Posted on September 17, 2012 by Andrew Phillips

Together with Jenkins Enterprise magicians CloudBees, we recently hosted a joint webinar Jumping from Continuous Integration to Continuous Deployment with Jenkins Enterprise (slides) to help Jenkins users get started with enterprise continuous delivery. We had great time working with the … read more >>

Tags: cloudbees, Continuous Deployment, Continuous Integration, deployment automation, jenkins
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Connecting Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Andrew Phillips

At XebiaLabs, many of the questions we get about our enterprise deployment automation solution Deployit are from users looking for automated deployment as a prerequisite for Continuous Delivery. Often, this the result of initiatives to extend existing Continuous Integration tooling … read more >>

Tags: Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, release management
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Come on, vagrant up! Saving Vagrant images that don’t get a NAT address

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Andrew Phillips

As part of testing and demonstrating our advanced deployment automation1 platform Deployit, we at XebiaLabs use a lot of cloud and Devops tooling to be able to handle all the different types of middleware we support and build, CI and … read more >>

Tags: Deployit, devops, Puppet, vagrant, virtual box
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Continuous Delivery with Deployit, Puppet, JBoss and VMware

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Andrew Phillips

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 … read more >>

Tags: Application Release Automation, Continuous Delivery, devops, PaaS, Puppet, VMware
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Why Application Release Automation needs a Release and an Operations view

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Andrew Phillips

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 … read more >>

Tags: Application Release Automation, ARA, Continuous Delivery, deployment automation, devops
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Taking Application Release Automation to the Next Level

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Andrew Phillips

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 … read more >>

Tags: Application Release Automation, continuous value, deployment automation
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Release Automation: The Missing Step in Release Management

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Andrew Phillips

Across all industries, the services delivered by business applications have become an essential part of an enterprise’s customer offering. Bringing new features to market quickly is thus a critical factor in determining a company’s success. In this post (an extended … read more >>

Tags: Agile, alm, release automation, release management
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