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Automation – IBM uDeploy

Automation Overview

This is a multi-part series where we will look at the various DevOps tools that are available and explore the features on how it can help improve the efficiency by automation.

The Rational Suite family blends marketplace-leading developer solutions with an integrated set of lifecycle tools, called the IBM Rational Team Unifying Platform™ solution.

IBM Rational Tools
IBM Rational Tools

uDeploy Overview

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a continuous process in which the planning, development, integration, testing, and operation of your company’s applications are jointly monitored and controlled. IBM ALM itself is guided by business demands and delivers a measurable added value to your business. This process controls the applications of a business over their entire software development lifecycle.

IBM uDeploy
IBM uDeploy

 

Functional Capabilities of uDeploy

  • Automated, consistent deployments and rollbacks of applications
  • Orchestration of changes across servers, tiers and components
  • Configuration and security differences across environments
  • Clarity of changes made based on user
  • Integrated with middleware, provisioning and service virtualization
  • UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns delivers applications to the cloud, at scale, with speed and provides
  • Rich web-based designer to create fullstack application blueprints for your cloud
  • Continuous delivery pipeline environments for new applications
  • Short-lived testing sandboxes for specific infrastructure combinations
  • Infrastructure changes through environments just like application changes
  • Consistency across environments, from testing to production even when using multiple clouds

Sample Process Modeling

Here is a sample process model which can give you insight on how you can model your deployment model.

The use case here covers the n-tier application architecture and how uDeploy can help run the deployment process on the application tier by pushing the code and configurations through the agents.

The process model involves various steps of creating a template which can be reused further across the environment.

Please refer to the fig shown here which depicts the high level actions of what needs to be configured, when you create a uDeploy job.

Process Model for application tier
Process Model for application tier
Deployment model
Deployment model

 

 

 

 

 

 

Closing thoughts

With this model we have reduced multi-step manual based process to one step fully automated deployment which can result in huge improvement in reduction of time and errors.

Key benefits:

Template driven approach, highly reusable processes and artifacts – dramatically reduce failures caused by people. The simple, graphical process designer, with built-in actions to quickly create deployment automation, helps in visualizing the actions and process.

The one push button deployment processes helps in release automation, from manual and script based to zero touch operations, with very high application deployment success rates.

Deployment parity across the environments which is a big challenge in most of the enterprises which has too many number of deployments and complexity increases, with these kind of approached we clearly see huge savings on time and cost

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