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Continuous deployment with Atlassian Bamboo and XebiaLabs Deployit
Over the past five to ten years, continuous integration has become a no-brainer for every medium to large scale software development project. It’s hard to imagine going back to not having every commit...
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Taking Application Release Automation to the Next Level
Whether the driver is Agile, Cloud or DevOps1, or a “plain old” efficiency drive or process improvement initiative, forward-thinking organisations are currently looking for ways to improve their...
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Why Application Release Automation needs a Release and an Operations view
As the interface between Development and Operations, Application Release Management1 handles information that is highly relevant to your Release and Operations teams. Selecting an Application Release...
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Come on, vagrant up! Saving Vagrant images that don’t get a NAT address
As part of testing and demonstrating our advanced deployment automation1 platform Deployit, we at XebiaLabs use a lot of cloud and Devops tooling to be able to handle all the different types of...
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Deployit Cookbook: Setup Security Roles
Deployit provides fine-grained security settings based on roles and permissions and allows them to be configured through the CLI and in the GUI. In this example, we’ll be setting up security roles...
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Deployit Cookbook: Executing a command during deployment
For a deployment, Deployit calculates the step list based on your model. But what if you want to add an extra step? There are several ways to do this. This cookbook entry will explain a simple case:...
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Cost Effective, Fast and Scalable: Is It Time You Considered Automated App...
Our approach to software development has changed in the last few years. IT professionals and software developers are working more closely together than ever before. The DevOps trend also extends to an...
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Scaling the hybrid cloud horizontally
After being derided as “unpure” by cloud enthusiast when the idea was first presented, we can now safely say that the hybrid cloud is here to stay. The mix of dynamic requirements within the enterprise...
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Connecting Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery
At XebiaLabs, many of the questions we get about our enterprise deployment automation solution Deployit are from users looking for automated deployment as a prerequisite for Continuous Delivery. Often,...
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Take the Application Release Market Survey
We’re conducting a survey to take the pulse of the Application Release market. We will reveal the top challenges and key initiatives effecting you, your business and the Application Release market in...
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Fast and Easy integration testing with Docker and Overcast
Challenges with integration testing Suppose that you are writing a MongoDB driver for java. To verify if all the implemented functionality works correctly, you ideally want to test it against a REAL...
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Deployment is the new build (part 1)
Earlier this year, I was invited to present a talk at Devopsdays Boston about deployment as the new build: how deployments are carried out now, how they will need to adapt in a more virtualized,...
View ArticleDeployit integrated with WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance for applications on...
At XebiaLabs, we have recently been working on an exciting new integration for Deployit, our deployment automation product. We've created a Deployit plugin that allows you to deploy EAR files directly...
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Deployment is the new build (part 2)
Earlier this year, I was invited to present a talk at Devopsdays Boston about deployment as the new build: how deployments are carried out now, how they will need to adapt in a more virtualized,...
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Deployment is the new build (part 3)
Earlier this year, I was invited to present a talk at Devopsdays Boston about deployment as the new build: how deployments are carried out now, how they will need to adapt in a more virtualized,...
View ArticleDeployit integrated with DPAdmin for heterogeneous deployments to IBM...
In a previous blog I talked about the integration we've achieved between XebiaLabs' Deployit and IBM's Workload Deployer (still called WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance at the time) to allow users to...
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jar-with-deps don't like META-INF/services
Recently, I was preparing a connection checker for Deployit's powerful remote execution framework Overthere. To make the checker, as compact as possible, I put together a jar-with-deps1 for...
View ArticleRelease Automation: The Missing Step in Release Management
Across all industries, the services delivered by business applications have become an essential part of an enterprise's customer offering. Bringing new features to market quickly is thus a critical...
View ArticleLeveraging the IBM Workload Deployer CLI to automate WebSphere application...
A few months ago I blogged about the integration between Deployit and IBM WebSphere CloudBurst (since renamed to IBM Workload Deployer). While that article gave an overview of the integration and...
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Continuous deployment with Atlassian Bamboo and XebiaLabs Deployit
Over the past five to ten years, continuous integration has become a no-brainer for every medium to large scale software development project. It's hard to imagine going back to not having every commit...
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