In most large enterprises, tightly-coupled applications have dependencies across multiple release trains. Read this guide to learn what you can do to update your test environment management, redefine traditional roles, and remain relevant in the age of automation.

1. Balance Change
and Control of
Continuous Delivery
at Scale
DevOps is the journey.
Continuous Delivery is its successful culmination.

2. What’s happening
in the enterprise?
Why is that a problem?
In most large enterprises, tightly-coupled applications have dependencies
across multiple release trains. Even if deployment pipelines are running in
parallel initially, they eventually converge as test environments become
increasingly complex to reflect the final production state.
If a single pipeline faces delays, the flow of the entire release is jeopardized.
But coordinating these complex release trains and implementing CD at
enterprise scale requires balancing the pace of change with the controls
needed for application stability. Although developers may have established
Continuous Integration workflows that rapidly create testable builds, test
teams are often stuck waiting for a properly configured test environment, or
aren’t sure what changes new code contains. And everyone needs visibility
to help stop issues from progressing down the pipeline, however the
specialized tools used by dev and test teams are not accessible to all
stakeholders, making it difficult to identify problems or assess schedule
DevOps bridges the gap between
dev and ops, allowing release
trains to operate as a Continuous
Delivery (CD) pipeline. As a result,
delivery teams can:
Break down domain silos that inhibit
communication and process flow.
Establish a culture of shared
responsibility.
Deliver innovation faster and more
frequently.

3. Plutora Environments gives release teams a single command center
to schedule, manage, and configure test environments to expedite the
handoff of new code from dev to test, and maintain visibility of
fast-moving CD pipelines at scale. Here’s how…
How can you solve it?

4. Expedite the Handoff of
New Code from Dev to Test
“No one person understands what needs to happen all the way down
the deployment pipeline. Therefore, managing environments for
complex systems requires close collaboration from every group
between dev and ops.”
Gary Gruver in ‘Starting and Scaling DevOps’

5. 2
1 Inefficient handoffs from dev to test impede progress.
Reduce dev/test cycle time.
Plutora highlights when dev has a new build available, increasing test
team responsiveness and eliminating the delay in finding out when
new code is ready for testing.
Test environment configurations continually change as
new code becomes available, and test teams run the
risk of executing tests on incorrect configurations.
Automatically fetch version-controlled development
artifacts.
Whether running tests on-prem, in the cloud, or in hybrid
architectures, Plutora automatically pulls version numbers from the
Jenkins build server, creating a single source to track and update
configuration settings for all test environments across the portfolio.
CHALLENGE
SOLUTION
CHALLENGE
SOLUTION

6. 3
4
Test teams often get stuck waiting for a properly
configured test environment to become available.
On-demand deployment to test environments.
Plutora links Jenkins jobs to test environments, where a build is
triggered on-demand to expedite the handoff of new code from dev
into test environments.
Hard to identify what changes new code contains to
properly assign test cases.
Ensure test coverage with the CD Pipeline functionality
in Plutora.
With Plutora’s Continuous Delivery Pipeline functionality, test teams
can link to change ID’s to quickly associate new code commits with
appropriate tests.
CHALLENGE
SOLUTION
CHALLENGE
SOLUTION

7. 5
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Lack of visibility into specialized
tools across the CD pipeline.
Maintain visibility of fast-moving CD pipelines at scale.
With Plutora, stakeholders can quickly view test status in real time to
continually monitor product quality and evaluate schedule risk at each
phase of the CD pipeline.
Tracking release artifacts within and across projects.
Establish traceability from inception to production.
Plutora tracks CD workflows and change requests to ensure
compliance. Release audit history is automatically updated to include
Jenkins build numbers deployed to each test environment over the
course of a release.
CHALLENGE
CHALLENGE
SOLUTION
SOLUTION

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Speed progression of code
along the delivery pipeline.
Identify when new code is available for testing.
Understand what changes new code contains.
Facilitate test environments on-demand.
7 Difficult to assess and reduce risk of scheduling across
interdependent pipelines.
Enforce code quality gates.
With Plutora, release teams can create a well-structured deployment
plan that enforces code quality gates designed to limit multifaceted
triage scenarios and facilitate identification of defects before moving
code onto the next, more complex test environment.
CHALLENGE
SOLUTION

9. Plutora Environments helps release
teams optimize the flow of code
through each phase of the release by
removing constraints and increasing
visibility and traceability of fast
moving CD pipelines.
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Optimize
CD Pipelines
at Scale

10. Continuous Delivery
Pipelines: Metrics,
Myths, and Milestones
If you want to learn more, check
out our webinar with DevOps guru
Gary Gruver where he shares
hands-on tips and an actionable
framework for scaling to DevOps
and Continuous Delivery in the
enterprise.
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