The document discusses the challenges and high costs associated with enterprise JEE deployment, highlighting that enterprises spend an average of $852,187 annually on deployments. It emphasizes the importance of automating the deployment process to reduce costs, manage complexity, and improve predictability. The document suggests starting with automation incrementally and utilizing separate configuration files for different environments to streamline the deployment process.

1. Automating JEE Deployment Process
Vikas Hazrati
www.xebiaindia.com

2. Challenges Of Deployment Are Getting Tough
Everyday

3. Enterprises and System Administrators are
Juggling with Deployment Challenges

4. On Average Enterprise is Spending
$852,187 Per Year for Deployments

5. Bringing Down This Cost is an Achievable
Goal

6. Automating the Deployment Process is
the Key

7. ===== Act II, Scene 1

8. Earlier
Those were
the days

9. Enterprise JEE Deployment is a Complex
Task

10. For Each Application There are Multiple
Deployment Categories

11. Configuring the Deployment Categories is
an Involved Process
Installing the Application
Configuring Resources
Configuring Middleware Repeating the same
Components Steps across
environments
Starting / Stopping
Components
Maintaining the Order

12. Support for Multiple Deployment Categories
Report on the status of each category

13. Amount of Infrastructure Increases as
Business Grows

14. Data Centers are Around the World

15. Manual Deployment or Home Grown Scripts
Often Fall Short

16. Suggest Deployment steps based on different
Easy to write / plugin deployment scripts
Deployment categories
Suggest Deployment steps based on different
Deployment categories
Standard deployment steps should be overridable

17. Workload Associated with Managing
Applications is Growing

18. Reasons for Increase in Workload
Complexity is
Little or no Tooling is
Often
Automation limited
ignored

19. ===== Act II, Scene 2

20. Enterprise JEE Deployment is Expensive

21. Large Number of Specialized Staff Required
for Deployment and Script Writing

22. AD Can Help by Reducing the Cost

23. Time Spent on Configuration Issues is High

24. Should have the capability to use separate configuration
files for DTAP environments

25. Downtime Leads to Lost Money

26. ===== Act II, Scene 3

27. Enterprise JEE Deployment is Unpredictable

28. Too Much Dependent on People

29. Configuration Drift

30. Should show the current state of the deployment
Preview of changes
Should maintain a history of deployment changes
Log all changes

31. Should show the current state of the deployment
Version the configuration changes in source control
Transaction Boundries and Rollback ???

32. Possible Solution

42. ===== Act III

43. Enterprise Deployments are Marred With
Challenges and High Costs

44. Deployment Automation is the Key to IT's
Future

45. Start With One of the Products and Take
One Bite at a Time

46. Automating Deployment – Makes You Feel
Better

47. References & Credits

48. For More Details
vhazrati@xebia.com
http://blog.xebia.com
http://xebee.xebia.in