The document introduces the key features of XL Deploy version 4.5. It highlights new capabilities in the Rules DSL for combining deployment steps, UI Extensions for extending the user interface, and Configuration Compare for comparing environments. Additional improvements include support for new middleware versions and integrations. The webinar provides overviews and demonstrations of these new features.

1. Introducing XL Deploy 4.5
Andrew Phillips, VP Products | 23 July 2014

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Housekeeping
▪ This webinar is being recorded
▪ Links to the slides and the recording will be made
available after the presentation
▪ You can post questions via the GoToWebinar Control
Panel

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Agenda
▪ XL Deploy in 1min
▪ Key Features in 4.5
▪ Spotlight: Rules DSL
▪ Spotlight: UI Extensions
▪ Spotlight: Configuration Compare
▪ Additional Features & Improvements

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XL Deploy in 1min
▪ Multi-platform Agentless Application Release Automation
▪ The only deployment automation solution that does not
require you to design and maintain scripts or workflows
▪ Reduce cost, eliminate errors and accelerate time-to-
market through Continuous Delivery and DevOps

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We’ve been busy…
▪ The “IT Manager’s Guide to Continuous Delivery”
▪ Events, Webinars and Thought Leadership
▪ Updates to XL Deploy and XL Release
▪ Ongoing R&D and improvements to XL Deploy, XL
Release, XL Scale and XL Test

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Key Features in 4.5
Drivers
▪ Provide an even easier mechanism to configure XL Deploy
and integrate Cool Tech
▪ Add modularity and extensibility to the UI
▪ Manage complex configurations and tackle configuration drift
4.5

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Key Features in 4.5
▪ Rules DSL
4.5

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Key Features in 4.5
▪ Rules DSL
▪ UI Extensions
4.5

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Key Features in 4.5
▪ Rules DSL
▪ UI Extensions
▪ Configuration Compare 4.5

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Key Features in 4.5
▪ Rules DSL
▪ UI Extensions
▪ Configuration Compare
▪ …and plenty more
4.5

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Spotlight: Rules DSL
▪ Next step in XL Deploy’s configuration mechanism
▪ Easily combine multiple step types in a single action
▪ Additional support for conditional execution
▪ Existing plugins are fully backwards-compatible

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Spotlight: Rules DSL

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Spotlight: Rules DSL

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Spotlight: Rules DSL
▪ See http://blog.xebialabs.com/2014/07/08/deploying-dockerized-application-xl-
deploy/ for more information about this plugin!

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Spotlight: UI Extensions
▪ Modular extension capability for the UI
▪ Add new menu items to create your own screens
and dashboards
▪ Fully HTML 5 based
▪ Also define additional HTTP endpoints to easily
add functionality

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Spotlight: UI Extensions

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Spotlight: Configuration Compare
▪ Configuration drift is one of the biggest challenges in
environment management
▪ New configuration comparison option based on XL
Deploy’s extensible discovery mechanism
▪ Compare multiple live environments, as well as existing
items in XL Deploy’s repository with the live state

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Spotlight: Configuration Compare
▪ TODO

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Spotlight: Configuration Compare
▪ TODO

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Spotlight: Configuration Compare
▪ TODO

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Spotlight: Configuration Compare

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Additional Features & Improvements
▪ Additions to many middleware plugins, including
WebSphere, JBoss/WildFly, Glassfish and BigIP, to
support new versions and features
▪ New versions of integration plugins, including support for
TFS 2013 and Bamboo 5 deployment plans
▪ Requested UI improvements
▪ …and more
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Next Steps
▪ Get started today!
go.xebialabs.com/XL-Platform-Trial.html
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http://www.xebialabs.com/products/xl-deploy
http://docs.xebialabs.com/releases/latest/xl-deploy
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24. Thank You!