My 2011 talk at Red Hat EMEA Partner Conference about Continuous Deployment with JBoss AS

1. A Continuous Deployment
Environment for JBoss
Dr. Andreas Wintersteiger
Objectbay Software & Consulting GmbH
June 6, 2011

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About Objectbay
 JBoss Premier Business Partner
 JBoss Partner since 2006
 Red Hat Advanced Partner (2011)
 Located in the center of Europe
What we do:
 Development Services
 Technology Consulting
 Engineering Consulting

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About me
 Developer, Geek, Agilo, Techie,…
 Developer Coach
 Co-Author of “Agile Developer Skills”
What my VC reads:
 Managing Partner, Senior Consultant
 Certified Scrum Trainer and Coach
 Certified JBoss Developer

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Agile Processes promote early feedback

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How do we get an increment of a product?
• The “Walking Skeleton”
• An implementation of the thinnest
possible slice of functionality that can
we can automatically build, deploy and
test end-to-end (Allistair Cockburn).
• Importance of real E2E testing
• Just enough of
• Major components
• Communication mechanisms
• Automation
• Infrastructure

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First, we need Continuous Integration.

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The Commit Stage is about fast feedback!

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Did we just break the build?

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Good so far. Can we go into Production?
Nope, sorry!
$ cp –f artifacts/* /opt/jboss-
eap/server/production/deploy

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So, what is acceptance testing?
• Is the product developed correctly?
• Acceptance criteria (functional)
• Are we done?
• „Outer“ quality
• Fully automated

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Acceptance Tests with FIT/FitNesse

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Still not done!

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Introducing Deployment Pipelines
Source: Jez Humble, David Farley: „Continuous Delivery”, Addison Wesley 2010
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Go! (formerly Cruise)

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This is how we designed it
• A repository for the source
• One for build artifacts
• Another one for system software
• Jenkins
• JBoss ON
• Puppet
• RHEV

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Creating the base with „Puppet“
• Blank VM w/ RHEL 6 as template
• Puppet for system software deployment
• JVM/JDK
• Databases
• User accounts / permissions
• Manually, but „push-button“

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Provisioning
Pictures Source: ControlTier Wiki, published unter CC SA 3.0

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„ControlTier“ for managing the environments
• Nodes
• Packages
• Services
• Processes

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Deploying/Updating with ControlTier
$ ctl -p demo –t Updater –r motoUat
–c BuildAndUpdate -- -buildstamp 1.2.2

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Deploying to a JBAS with ControlTier

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Next Steps
• More about Continuous Deployment
• Jez Humble, David Farley: „Continuous Delivery”, Addison
Wesley 2010
• http://www.puppetlabs.com/
• http://www.controltier.org
• More about agile development
• Andreas Wintersteiger, Christoph Mathis:
„Agile Developer Skills“, entwickler.press 2011

22. A Continuous Deployment
Environment for JBoss