UrbanCode Deploy is an application release automation tool that provides visibility, traceability, and auditing for deployments across distributed, cloud, and virtual environments. It handles the "what", "how", and "where" of deployments by defining components (deployable items) and processes, and targeting resources (environments like servers and databases). Key concepts include components, applications, resources, environments, agents, and plugins. Components represent deployable items and processes, applications coordinate multi-component deployments, resources are targets, and agents facilitate deployments on resources.

1. IBM URBANCODE
DEPLOY -
CONCEPTS
Joseph Amrith Raj Paturi

2. introduction
■ UrbanCode Deploy is an application release automation solution that combines robust
visibility, traceability and auditing capabilities. It allows you to seamlessly deploy to
distributed data centres, cloud and virtualized environments—on demand or on a
schedule

3. The What, How, and Where of the
deployment workflow
Source :
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowle
dgecenter/en/SS4GSP_6.0.0/com.ibm.
udeploy.doc/topics/intro_ch.html
What: the deployable items: binary files, static
content, middleware updates, database changes and
configurations, and anything else that is associated
with the software that IBM UrbanCode Deploy
delivers to target destinations.
How: refers to combining deployable items with
processes to create components, and designing
applications that coordinate and orchestrate multi-
component deployments.
Where: the target destination's hosts and
environments: IBM UrbanCode Deploy can scale to
any environment.

4. Terminology
Urbancode
deploy
components
Resources
Agents
pluginsprocesses
Environments
Applications
• Components
• Versions
• Component processes
• Resources
• Resource group
• Environments
• Processes
• Generic processes
• Applications
• Application process
• Agents
• Plug-ins

5. Components
■ Components are the smallest functional unit of your
application. It might be a WAR, it might be some
static files. A component is whatever the smallest
atomic unit that you can split up your application
into.
■ Components represent deployable items along with
user-defined processes that operate on them,
usually by deploying them.
■ Components have versions, which are used to ensure
that the appropriate component instances get
deployed
■ A component process is a series of user-defined
steps that operate on a component's artifacts. Each
component has at least one process defined for it
and can have several.
Component
processes
versions

6. Application
■ An application is what represents your application that you'll be deploying
■ An application is the mechanism that initiates component deployments; they bring
together components with their deployment targets, and orchestrate multi-
component deployments

7. Resources
■ A resource represents a deployment target, such as a physical server, virtual machine,
database, or Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition container. Components are deployed
to resources by agents
■ To run a deployment, at least one resource must be defined and at least one agent.
■ A resource group is a logical collection of resources. Resource groups enable collections
of resources to be easily reused. Resource groups can manage multi-tenant scenarios,
for example, in which several servers share resources.

8. Agents
■ An agent is going to be something that lives on a resource, that lives on something
you want to deploy to and facilitates the deployment.
■ An agent is a lightweight process that runs on a host and communicates with the IBM
UrbanCode Deploy server. Agents manage the resources that are the actual
deployment targets. Each system that participates in a deployment usually has an
agent installed on it. When not running deployments, agents run in the background
using minimal resources

9. Environment
■ An environment represents what you're deploying to.
■ An environment can point to multiple resources; an environment can be a single
resource. A resource can be something like a database, it can be where your Apache
server lives, it can be anything that you're - any location that your deploying to.

10. Urbancode plug-ins
■ Plug-ins provide basic processing functions and integration with third-party tools. IBM
UrbanCode Deploy ships with plug-ins for several common deployment processes,
and others are readily available for a wide variety of tools, such as middleware tools,
databases, servers, and other deployment targets.

11. The Summery
■ UrbanCode Deploy is an application release automation solution that combines robust
visibility, traceability and auditing capabilities. It allows you to seamlessly deploy to
distributed data centres, cloud and virtualized environments—on demand or on a
schedule

12. About Joseph
■ Joseph Amrith Raj Paturi – WebSphere Consultant
■ IBM Champion forWebSphere – 2012,2013
■ IBM Champion for middleware – 2016
■ IBM Champion for cloud – 2018
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