Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts is a Senior Technical Consultant for XebiaLabs. He has worked on both sides of DevOps, as a web software engineer and as a WAS/DB2 administrator.
Dave Roberts's Latest Posts
Best Practices for Custom Deployments with the XebiaLabs DevOps Platform
Whenever I give a demo of, or a training class on, the XebiaLabs DevOps Platform, I mention that all actions in deploying an application can […]
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Creating a Deployment Model for Scripted DB Updates
It is common for enterprises to work with hundreds of applications, each of those calling for a number of database scripts to be executed […]
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5 Reasons to Deploy Daily
Gary Gruver recently released his new book: Starting and Scaling DevOps in the Enterprise. In it he promotes the practice of releasing software on a daily […]
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DevOps and the DBA: Best Practices in XL Deploy
As Agile practices and the DevOps movement transform delivery pipelines throughout the world, let’s take a moment to reflect on the database administrator’s role in […]
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Dropping Artifacts into XL Deploy with Dropbox
As of version 5.0.0, XL Deploy supports maven-style repositories like Artifactory and Nexus. Find the configuration instructions here. XL Deploy can also support referencing a […]
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Tracking the Dev/QA Cycle with XL Release
Let’s take some inspiration from this diagram from Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project, and consider how DevOps tooling can help you automate […]
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A Tale of Two Build Tools: Integrating XL Release with Jenkins and Bamboo
I discovered that XL Release does not have built-in support to integrate with the Bamboo build tool as it does for Jenkins. But I […]
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Continuous Delivery With Bamboo And XL Deploy
One of the best things about the current generation of continuous delivery tools is their ease of integration and interoperability. Each tool offers a […]
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Updating WAS Applications In XL Deploy
Some users of WebSphere Application Server prefer to upgrade their EAR/WAR applications using WAS’s “update-in-place” option instead of uninstalling it and then re-installing. The […]
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Using Deployment Tags in XL Deploy
XL Deploy’s tagging mechanism provides a handy way to control the automated mapping of deployable object to their containers. When your environment has multiple […]
