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Multistage deployment on Bluemix with IBM DevOps Services
It is quite common for organizations to deploy their applications onto multiple environments. For example, most teams need environments for development, test, pre-production, and production. Dealing with all these environments is never easy, and it requires collaborative work between development, tests, operation, and 3 teams. IBM DevOps Services recently (Oct 2) improved the Delivery Pipeline to support multistage deployment. If you have multiple Bluemix spaces, you can configure the pipeline to deploy to these different environments.... [More]
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Conducting a DevOps Assessment Workshop
As few weeks ago I ran across a good article on adopting “Continuous Delivery practices”. In the white paper, “ Adopting IBM’s approach to continuous software delivery ,” the author, Paul Bahr discussed IBM’s adoption framework for iteratively introducing new capabilities and planning improvements. Here is the link to the survey: IBM DevOps Practices Self Assessment survey . In that article it described the first step as conducting a Devops assessment workshop... [More]
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Scaling Continuous Delivery using UrbanCode Release
Scaling Agile practices in support of DevOps A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to participate in the "Release and Deploy workshop" at the 2014 Innovate conference. During the day long hands-on workshop, we learned about several new UrbanCode Release (UCR) capabilities. While there were several interesting capabilities, UCR's abilities to "visualize" the deployment pipeline and to track the del ivery lifecycle for a particular set of "applications" being released together showed how effective it... [More]
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Continuous Integration (CI) Practice and Challenges, Part 1
Continuous Integration (CI) Practice and Challenges, Part 1 Today, CI is given more attention than ever,because it is becoming more and more complex to use. Large projects involvehundreds of developers working together on a huge volume of components. As aproject scales up in size and complexity, it becomes harder and longer tointegrates all pieces together. The effort required for integrating asystem increases exponentially over time and without a Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), CI adoption might fail.Taking a CI approach to software... [More]
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