MarkLogicWorld 2013 - Automate your deployments
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There are lots of ways to deploy your applications in MarkLogic. Numerous tools are at your disposal, like the Configuration Manager, Pomegranade, and Roxy. But how about a pure XQuery solution, that takes you all the way? Geert discusses the existing tools briefly, and shows a new personally-made prototype that allows deployments simply by uploading a zip. Audio available at http://www.marklogic.com/resources/automate-your-deployments/
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- 1. Automate Your Deployments Geert Josten, Senior Development, Dayon April 11, 2013
- 2. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Errrr, deployment?
- 3. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Deployment = … Configuring MarkLogic • Apps, Databases, Indexes, Forests, Security, Groups, Clusters, .. Deployment of app-specific files • Static files, modules, schema’s, initial data, install/migration scripts, .. Running app-specific config/deploy scripts • Including possible user interaction, orchestration of migrations, and imports, .. More? (No bootstrapping) • A.o. installing MarkLogic itself, first admin user, entering license, ..
- 4. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Why automate?
- 5. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Well.. have you used this before?
- 6. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments So many pages, so many options..
- 7. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments So, why automate? Because.. • Manual work time-consuming, tedious and error-prone • Databases, app-servers, security, uploading of files, app-specific setup, .. • Repeat same installation on multiple machines • DTAP, development laptops, clusters, show casing, .. • Many updates over application life-time • During development, project iterations, simple or complex updates, .. And not in the least.. • You (developer) might not be running the installation • App managers, non-MarkLogic-expert colleagues, third party, .. In short: Keep deployments SIMPLE! (and quick if possible)
- 8. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Other built-in options?
- 9. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Configuration Manager to the rescue?
- 10. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Not just yet..
- 11. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Information Studio?
- 12. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Management API?
- 13. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments How about Client API?
- 14. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Built-in options.. Fills gaps, but partial solutions • Still manual work • Multiple steps • No versioning • No automated rollback • Possibly different instructions each release Unless you (developer) do a lot of scripting.. • REST api’s • Admin/security XQuery modules
- 15. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Non-built-in options?
- 16. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Existing alternatives? Here are some: • MarkLogic Content Pump, AutoLoader and RecordLoader • Uploading • MarkLogic Ant tasks • Could do all, but developer tool, and still lots of work • Cqsh, Xmlsh • Similar to Ant tasks • Roxy • Very promising! But what about versioning, rollback, etc? • Booster • Simple HTTP wrapper for admin and security tasks • Depx and Expath Packaging System • Intended for libraries, not applications. Doesn’t configure MarkLogic
- 17. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Alternatives? Some thoughts: • All executed outside MarkLogic • Shell scripting could appeal to App managers • Roxy looks promising, but why Ruby? • Some solutions still need more or less additional scripting • No user interfaces? • No versioning as part of deployment • No automated rollback (not just on failure)
- 18. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments So, what is the ideal way?
- 19. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments I have a dream.. Simple method • Only MarkLogic (preferably out of box) • Simple interface Single package • App, database, security configuration • Files, modules, schemas • App-specific setup Upload and go • Ear-style deployment, one zip with all • Deployments dir, or upload • MarkLogic picks up and installs automatically
- 20. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments Demo!
- 21. Geert Josten, Dayon Automate your MarkLogic deployments MarkLogic package manager Functionality • Upload single package • With configs, files, post-install scripts • Keeps track of installed packages • Reinstall, rollback Prototype • Relies on built-ins like Configuration Manager • Custom code to upload files (could use Client-API?) • App-specific configuration • Runs at Admin-interface port Short-comings • No security config yet (could use/lend code from Roxy?) • Removal of files on file-system not possible • Storage of packages, where best?
- 22. Any Questions?
- 23. For More Information Geert Josten, Dayon Geert.josten@dayon.nl