5725-R35 IBM UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns V6.1.1

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Description

Product Life Cycle Dates

Program Number	VRM	Announced	Available	Marketing Withdrawn	Service Discontinued
5725-R35	06.01.01	2014/11/18	2014/12/11	2016/09/16	-
5725-R35	06.01.00	2014/06/02	2014/06/26	2016/09/16	-

Program number

IBM UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns V6.1.1 (5725-R35)

Abstract

UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns V6.1.1

UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns is a full-stack, environment management and deployment solution that enables you to design, deploy, and update full-stack-virtualized or cloud environments. UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns V6.1.1 delivers:

Enhanced environment portability with support for VMware vCenter and SoftLayer
Design and enforce auto-scaling policies for environment patterns
Manage Environment Pattern lifecycle, with ability to change application environments with full visibility into impact of change, and no disruption to the environment consumers

UrbanCode Deploy orchestrates and automates the deployment of applications, databases, and configurations into development, test, and production environments, helping to drive down cost and speed time to market with reduced risk. Clients who deploy applications on the cloud want to automate full stack including infrastructure, middleware, and applications, as well as use different cloud providers during development, test, staging, and production stages of the pipeline.

Extending the strengths of UrbanCode Deploy in automating application changes through the delivery pipeline, UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns helps enable clients to automate and simplify deployment and management of a full-stack application environment on any cloud.
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Highlights

IBM UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns V6.1 enables you to perform the following tasks:

Design open, full-stack application environments in a graphical or textual editor.
Deploy full-stack environments to any cloud.
Manage environment lifecycle and infrastructure configuration changes.
Easily integrate these cloud environments into the delivery process involving multiple stages.

Description

UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns V6.1.1

UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns is a full-stack environment management and deployment solution that enables clients to design, deploy and update full-stack virtualized or cloud environments.

Key release feature:Automated deployment of application environments to hybrid cloud providers

More and more organizations leverage a hybrid cloud strategy that is supported by multiple cloud providers to reduce operational risks, improve efficiency and reduce cost. Implementing a successful, hybrid cloud strategy requires an automated solution that can easily deploy application environments seamlessly across multiple cloud providers.

UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns V6.1.1 delivers:

Improvements to Environment Lifecycle Management. This gives you the ability to change application environments with full visibility into the impact of change, and zero disruption for environment consumers e.g. Developers and Testers
Enhanced cloud portability with support for SoftLayer, VMWare vCenter, and SoftLayer OpenStack Baremetal. You can deploy Cloud Portable Application environment patterns across a range of multiple cloud providers that includes Amazon, OpenStack, VMware vCenter, and SoftLayer.
Design and enforce auto-scaling policies for environment patterns. You can automate application performance SLAs and optimize costs by scaling the environment up and down as needed. Auto-scaling allows users to mitigate environmental challenges (such as cpu utilization, traffic demands, and so on) by leveraging the dynamic capabilities within the cloud to add or reduce services as demand dictates, optimizing both performance and cost.
UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns V6.1.1 is upgrading its support to IBM PureApplication Systems V2.0, enabling customers to easily deploy patterns from UrbanCode Deploy and leveraging the provisioned environments in the delivery pipeline. IBM PureApplication System V2.0 simplifies pattern customization of the IBM expert patterns.

Design full-stack application environments with a graphical editor

Organizations need the ability to capture and standardize the best practices for deploying application environments. Standardization and repeatability of application environments reduces delivery errors and improves efficiency of the delivery process.

UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns uses open standards defined by OpenStack to designate full-stack application blueprints as Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) documents. Infrastructure specialists, architects, and integrators can use a graphical and textual editor to easily assemble and update full-stack application blueprints from reusable building blocks such as scripts and templates for compute, storage, network, middleware, and applications.

Deploy full-stack application environments to any cloud

Organizations need the flexibility to deliver application environments to any cloud provider that meets the requirements for performance, service, security, and price. For this reason, more and more organizations are using multicloud and hybrid strategy across their delivery pipeline.

UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns enables architects and integrators to create portable application environment blueprints that can be automatically deployed to any cloud providers. UrbanCode Deploy uses OpenStack technology to enable cloud portability, including deployment to the Amazon public cloud.

Manage environment lifecycle and easily update environments

Because application changes require organizations to update the environments frequently, lack of change management for environment lifecycle becomes a challenge. In addition, organizations want the ability to deploy new, and update existing, environments at different stage of delivery pipeline.

UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns enables architects and integrators to easily manage the environment lifecycle and update existing cloud environments for any configuration changes.

Integrate environments into fully automated delivery process

Dynamic cloud environment is a core requirement of a delivery process; new environments are required by development, testing, troubleshooting, and production.

UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns enables release engineers to easily set up a multistage application delivery pipeline and use the application blueprints to dynamically provision new environments or update existing environments in production.

UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns V6.1 is an English only release.

Accessibility by people with disabilities

A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) containing details on accessibility compliance can be requested at

http://www.ibm.com/able/product_accessibility/index.html

Operating environment

Hardware requirements

None.

Software requirements

Databases: MySQL 5.6 and future fix packs

Integrated application platform: UrbanCode Deploy V6.1 and future fix packs

Java: IBM Java SDK/JRE V7.0.5 and future fix packs

Licensing: Rational License Key Server V8.1.4 and future fix packs

Virtualization management:

IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack for X86 4.1 and future fix packs
Havana OpenStack 2013.2 and future fix packs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) all versions and future fix packs
IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator V2.3 and future fix packs
IBM Cloud Orchestrator V2.4 and future fix packs

Web browsers

Apple Safari on iOS 6.x and future fix packs
Google Chrome 24 and future fix packs
Google Chrome 25 and future fix packs
Google Chrome 26 and future fix packs
Google Chrome 27 and future fix packs
Google Chrome 28 and future fix packs
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0 and future fix packs
Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and future fix packs
Mozilla Firefox 17 and future fix packs
Mozilla Firefox 24 and future fix packs

Operating systems:

Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6 x86-64

Windows: Windows 7 Enterprise x86-64

UrbanCode Deploy with Patterns V6.1.1

Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server 6 x86-64

The program's specifications and specified operating environment information may be found in documentation accompanying the program, if available, such as a readme file, or other information published by IBM, such as an announcement letter. Documentation and other program content may be supplied only in the English language.
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Planning information

Customer responsibilities

The customer is responsible for evaluation, selection, and implementation of security features, administrative procedures, and appropriate controls in application systems and communication facilities.

Limitations

For additional information, refer to the license information document that is available on the IBM Software License Agreement website at

http://www.ibm.com/software/sla/sladb.nsf

Publications

No publications are shipped with this product.

The IBM Publications Center portal is located at

http://www.ibm.com/shop/publications/order

The Publications Center is a worldwide central repository for IBM product publications and marketing material with a catalog of 70,000 items. Extensive search facilities are provided. Payment options for orders are via credit card (in the US) or customer number for 20 countries. A large number of publications are available online in various file formats, and they can all be downloaded by all countries.
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Security, auditability, and control

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