Slides from the XebiaLabs & codecentric webinar "Best Practices Webinar: Deploy Higher-Quality Applications Faster" on Jun 6th, 2013

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Webinar mit: Andrew Phillips, VP Products XebiaLabs und
Jörg Spiegelhoff, VP Product Solutions codecentric AG
AUTOMATISIERTES DEPLOYMENT
XebiaLabs & codecentric present:

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CODECENTRIC AUF EINEN BLICK
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Rund 160 Mitarbeiter
an einem unserer
acht Standorte
in Deutschland
und im
europäischen
Ausland

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PORTFOLIO
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AGILE SOFTWARE
FACTORY
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
BIG DATA
AGILE UND ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS
NEARSHORING
TECHNOLOGICAL LEADERSHIP

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CONTINUOUS
DELIVERY
Release auf
Knopfdruck
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AUTOMATISCH ANS ZIEL – SO OFT SIE WOLLEN
UND SO SCHNELL, WIE ES VERLANGT WIRD.
Beschleunigte und
automatisierte Prozesse:
§ Höhere Wertschöpfung der IT
§ Bessere Release-Qualität
§ Reduzierte Entwicklungskosten
§ Produktive Zusammenarbeit
§ Höhere Kundenzufriedenheit
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
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PARTNER
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AppDynamics
XebiaLabs (DeployIT)
Basho (RIAK)
Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence, etc)
NeoTechnology (neo4j)
10gen (MongoDB)
Hortonworks (Apache)
VMWare (Springframework)
MuleSoft (Mule ESBTM)
Vaadin

7. © Copyright 2013 XebiaLabs Inc. Proprietary & Confidential.
Our flagship product, Deployit, is a market-leading
Application Release Automation platform.
o Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts
o Global development and support offices in
US, EMEA and APAC
Our Company. Our Platform.
Benefits include:
o Reduce development applications costs
o Accelerate application time to market
o Bridge the gap between Development and Operations

8. o Economic environment
o Business pressure
o “Always on, always new”
consumer expectation
o Growth in # applications
o Growth in # releases
The Bigger Picture

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Bridging the gap
The Situation Today
Release
Packaging
Public / Private
Hybrid Cloud
Middleware
Build
SCM
Continuous
Integration
IDEs
Provisioning
Platform as a
Service
Dev Ops

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What’s Wrong with the Situation Today?
High Error Rate
Lots of Delays
Manual
Deployments
Too Complex
o 20 components to be deployed per
application
o A mix of middleware environments
Repetitive & Manual
o 10 versions of 50 applications
o Onto 4 environments
o 5 times a day/week/month
o = 2,000+ error-prone activities
No Best Practice
o Standardization lacking
o Split responsibilities across Dev/QA/Prod

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What’s Wrong with the Situation Today?
The Resulting Problem:
Complex scripts and many
deployment workflows to maintain.
Applications Environments
Test
Acceptance
Production
HR
Sales
Backend
Online Store
Mix of Homemade Scripts & Manual
Deployments
o Costly to maintain over time
o Application and middleware specific
o Error prone
o Operational manuals not updated
Organizational Impacts
o Unpredictable deployments
o Time consuming, low VA tasks
o Ops and Dev autonomy
Business Impacts
o Longer time to market
o Costs/OPEX
o Availability of business apps/risks

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Why Automate the Deployment Process?
Ronni J. Colville,
George Spafford
“Through 2015… more
than 50% of those
outages will be caused
by change/
configuration/release
integration and hand-
off issues.”
Jay Lyman
“The application
deployment process in
many large enterprises
today is often manual,
error-ridden and time-
intensive.”
Jeffrey S. Hammond
“Firms are discovering
that the velocity of
business change is now
limited by how quickly
they can deploy.”

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Market Trends that Drive the ARA Market
High
AvailabilityVirtualizationMigrations
Compliancy Agile (2.0)DevOps
Continuous
Delivery RationalizationScalability

14. • Complete, environment-independent deployment package
o Code and configuration
o Artifacts (obviously!)
o Configuration files
o Database changes
o Configuration resources (e.g. datasources)
o …
o One versioned unit of deployment
o Tokens/placeholders for
environment-specific values
Best Practices for ARA

15. • Standardized deployment mechanism from Dev to Prod
o As far as possible, same OS, middleware version, middleware
topology etc.
o Same playbook/instructions/deployment rules etc.
o Start/stop servers using the same commands
o Same file permissions for configuration files
o Same package + same deployment procedure
= greater reliability and predictability
Best Practices for ARA

16. • Separation of Dev and Ops responsibilities
o Developers deliver “what”, Operations determine “how”
o Where does the application stop and the platform begin?
o Ownership and control of environment-specific settings
Best Practices for ARA

17. • Automated prerequisite checks and post-deployment
verification steps
o Are we deploying to the correct platform version? Are all
dependencies available?
o Is my application actually running and ready for the next step
o Versioned together with the deployment package!
Best Practices for ARA

18. • Integrated, repeatable environment provisioning
o Eliminate the “there’s no test environment available”
bottleneck
o Eliminate time spent troubleshooting misconfigured
environments
o Single biggest cause of deployment failure according to
recent survey!
Best Practices for ARA

19. • Validated and tested rollback
o Roll-forward may be fine for test and QA, but seldom for prod
o Rollback from all defined points of the deployment plan
o Needs to be tested to ensure it works and remains up-to-date
Best Practices for ARA

20. • Secure self-service
o Remove the “Operations bottleneck” from deployments,
especially to test and QA environments
o Access control can allow developers and testers to deploy
without requiring access to the target systems
o Same deployment unit and mechanism will still be used for
production deployment
Best Practices for ARA

21. • Insight and improvement metrics
o To know not only how things are going now, but whether
they’re going in the right direction!
o Often not currently collected even with extensive and
advanced scripting
o Allow for targeted improvement:
o Which applications fail regularly?
o Which pre-requisite checks are violated?
o Which environments are slow?
o …
Best Practices for ARA

22. Complete, environment-independent deployment package
Best Practices for ARA

23. Complete, environment-independent deployment package
Standardized deployment mechanism from Dev to Prod
Best Practices for ARA

24. Complete, environment-independent deployment package
Standardized deployment mechanism from Dev to Prod
Separation of Dev and Ops responsibilities
Best Practices for ARA

25. Complete, environment-independent deployment package
Standardized deployment mechanism from Dev to Prod
Separation of Dev and Ops responsibilities
Automated prerequisite checks and post-deployment
verification steps
Best Practices for ARA

26. Complete, environment-independent deployment package
Standardized deployment mechanism from Dev to Prod
Separation of Dev and Ops responsibilities
Automated prerequisite checks and post-deployment
verification steps
Integrated, repeatable environment provisioning
Best Practices for ARA

27. Complete, environment-independent deployment package
Standardized deployment mechanism from Dev to Prod
Separation of Dev and Ops responsibilities
Automated prerequisite checks and post-deployment
verification steps
Integrated, repeatable environment provisioning
Validated and tested rollback
Best Practices for ARA

28. Complete, environment-independent deployment package
Standardized deployment mechanism from Dev to Prod
Separation of Dev and Ops responsibilities
Automated prerequisite checks and post-deployment
verification steps
Integrated, repeatable environment provisioning
Validated and tested rollback
Secure self-service
Best Practices for ARA

29. Complete, environment-independent deployment package
Standardized deployment mechanism from Dev to Prod
Separation of Dev and Ops responsibilities
Automated prerequisite checks and post-deployment
verification steps
Integrated, repeatable environment provisioning
Validated and tested rollback
Secure self-service
Insight and improvement metrics
Best Practices for ARA

30. © Copyright 2013 XebiaLabs Inc. Proprietary & Confidential.
Deployit in your Automation Landscape
Release
Packaging
Public / Private
Hybrid Cloud
Middleware
Build
SCM
Continuous
Integration
IDEs
Provisioning
Platform as a
Service
Bridging the gapDev Ops

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How Deployit is Different
Enterprise
Scalability
Best Practice
Extensibility
Insight and
Compliance
Lightweight &
Cloud Ready

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o Plugins for all main Java EE & .NET middleware,
as well as databases, messaging systems and
more
o Out-of-the-box steps to deploy 100+ application
and resource types
o Intelligent deployment logic captures
middleware-specific dependencies
Best Practice Extensibility
How Deployit is Different
Enterprise
Scalability
Lightweight
& Cloud
Ready
Insight and
Compliance
Best Practice
Extensibility

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o No manual creation of workflows
o Agentless architecture
o Auto-scalable AutoFlow engine
o True model-based automation generates
optimal deployment plans tailored to the
current application and environment state
o Automatic discovery of target environments
Enterprise Scalability
How Deployit is Different
Enterprise
Scalability
Lightweight
& Cloud
Ready
Insight and
Compliance
Best Practice
Extensibility

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o Agentless architecture for compatibility with
standard public/private cloud images
o Connect to Windows & Unix target systems using
standard remote protocols
o No agent install
o No firewall ports to be opened
o No security reviews
o Cloud-ready pricing
Lightweight & Cloud Ready
How Deployit is Different
Enterprise
Scalability
Lightweight
& Cloud
Ready
Insight and
Compliance
Best Practice
Extensibility

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o Built-in reporting offers quality checks throughout
the deployment process
o Ensures complete logging and traceability for
auditing
o Visualization of your application deployment
models
o Easily compare deployments across target
environments, servers with a single view to
combat configuration drift
o Pipeline dashboard for continuous delivery
Insight and Compliance
How Deployit is Different
Enterprise
Scalability
Lightweight
& Cloud
Ready
Insight and
Compliance
Best Practice
Extensibility

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Confidential.
Demo

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Fragen? Next Steps
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Blog: blog.xebialabs.com
Twitter: @xebialabs
YouTube: youtube.com/xebialabs
Web: www.codecentric.de
Blog: blog.codentric.de

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Jörg Spiegelhoff
codecentric AG
Merscheider Str. 1
42699 Solingen
joerg.spiegelhoff@codecentric.de
Tel.: +49 (0)212 23 36 28 19
xing.com/profile/Joerg_Spiegelhoff
Andrew Phillips
XebiaLabs Inc.
aphillips@xebialabs.com
blog.xebialabs.com/author/aphillips
DANKE!