Deployit overview for JUG-Italy meeting; deployment automation

1. Application
Deployment Automation
Deployit. Optimizing your Deployment Process
Benoit Moussaud / Technical Director (bmoussaud@xebialabs.com)
Richard Mathis / Country Manager (rmathis@xebialabs.com)

2. XebiaLabs in a nutshell
2001 ~ 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 and beyond
Xebia founded XebiaLabs spin off Release of International Expanding
KLM as 1st customer
(200p) founded Deployit v.1 expansion customer base
Netherlands
Germany
France
USA
India

3. Our mission
Help our customers to industrialize their application
deployments to:
 reduce costs
 ensure availability of business applications
 accelerate time to market

4. What is Deployit?
First application deployment automation solution to be used
across the whole Application Lifecycle:
 Development Teams
 Integration/Acceptance/QA Departments
 IT Operations

5. Limitations of current solutions
 Home made scripts
 Difficult & costly to create and maintain
 Tightly coupled to target middewares and given applications
 Never end to end automated solutions
 Manual deployments
 Heavyweight /difficult to update operation manuals
 Error-prone

6. Frequent issues
 Organizational impacts
 Impredictable deployments
 Repetitive low added value tasks
 Development expertise needed to deploy
 Technical impacts
 Impossible roll backs
 Incidents difficult to reproduce
 Business impacts
 Longer time-to-market
 Costs
 Availability of business applications

7. What is application deployment really?
MyApp
Prod 1, 2 & 3
v 1.x
v 2.x
v 3.x
… QA 1 & 2
Dev 1

8. Deployments are end-to-end processes
A deployment is a complicated, context-dependent process:
 Installing applications
 Configuring resources
 Configuring middleware components
 Starting/stopping components
 Configuring the installed application for the
target environment
And all of these in the right order …

9. Deployit : ecosystem

10. The Deployit “Unified Deployment Model”

11. The 3 concepts of Deployit: the Deployment Package
Deployment Package…
o New application or new version of an
existing application
o Contains all the necessary resources :
o archives (WAR, EAR, JAR…)
o static content
o images
o SQL scripts
o configurations files...
o Structure can be adapted to existing
deployment procedures

12. The 3 concepts of Deployit: the environment
Target Environment…
o Machine or group of machines running
middleware (appservers, ESB, web
servers, portals….)
o Example:
o Development
o Test
o Acceptance
o Production…
o Can exist in several versions (like
applications)

13. The 3 concepts of Deployit: the Deployment
Deployment…
o Consists in installing a package
(version N of an application X)
on an environment Y
o Via a series of steps done in a
specific order
o In Deployit : link between a
package and an environment

14. Deployit: Capabilities
Deployit: a single deployment platform for Development & IT Operations
 Support for reliable ‘self-service’ deployments
 Automatic discovery of servers, clusters and nodes
 Enables reliable composition of deployment packages
 Synchronizes and compares target environments
 Promotes applications from one environment to another
 Out-of-box support for all major middleware stacks
 Support for clouds and virtualized environments
 Traceable processes with audit trails and reporting
 Both CLI and task-based UI based on Flex
 Secure, role-based solution

15. Deployit: Architecture
 Agentless, scalable architecture based
on a Unified Deployment Model
 Easy to extend and customize via PluginAPI
 Integrates with CMDBs and build systems
 Integrates with Eclipse and Maven
 Works with all leading middleware:
 IBM, Oracle, JBoss, Tomcat etc

16. Deployit strenghts
 Intelligent resolution and deployment solution allowing to
deploy the same app to:
 different topologies
 different middlewares
 Extensibility via open API allowing to:
 Extend or finetune a deployment procedure
 Add the option of a specific parameter for a given middleware
 Create the support for a new middleware

17. List of supported middlewares
 IBM WebSphere Application Server 5, 6 and 7
 IBM WebSphere Portal Server 6
 IBM WebSphere MQ
 Oracle WebLogic Server 9, 10 and 11g
 Oracle Service Bus (anciennement AquaLogic)
 JBoss Application Server 4 and 5
 Tomcat server
 Liferay Portal (in progress)
 Maven
 Hudson (via Maven)
 Bamboo (via Maven)
 CruiseControl (via Maven)
 Eclipse (in progress)
 DB : MySQL, Oracle DB, MS SQL Server, IBM DB2
 …still growing

18. Deployit in the Application Lifecycle

19. ITIL metrics and process improvement
ITIL : Release Management Process
ITIL : Metrics and KPIs
 Number of releases per period
 Duration of major deployments
 Number of post deployment problems
 % of automated deployments
 Number of releases respecting deadlines
Lean IT / Agile Methodologies
 « Done » concept
 Waste elimination
 Deliver as soon as possible
 « See the whole »
Transparence and audit
 Traceability
 Governance on environments

20. Waste elimination

21. Demo