Hands-On Lab: Complement CA Release Automation with a New Continuous Delivery Solution Offering A Visual Approach for Complex Application Releases

Hands-On Lab: Complement CA Release
Automation with a New Continuous Delivery
Solution Offering A Visual Approach for
Complex Application Releases
Keith Puzey
DevOps: Continuous Delivery
CA Technologies
Sr Principal Engineering Services Architect
DO4X213L
@KeithPuzey
#CAWorld

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Abstract
Curious about the buzz around the new
Continuous Delivery Solution announced at CA
World? See how this new solution is providing a
visual approach to plan, coordinate, orchestrate,
track, and optimize application releases.
Experience the ultimate control of, and insight
into, content for multiple applications along your
extensive, heterogeneous release pipeline and
learn how its sophisticated capabilities
compliment CA Release Automation.
Keith Puzey
CA Technologies
Senior Principal
Engineering Services
Architect

Agenda
SOLUTION OVERVIEW
RELEASE MANAGEMENT
RELEASE DASHBOARD
HANDS ON LAB
Q AND A

VALUE DRIVERS
EASY ADOPTION
Deliver Rapid Time-to-Value product
RELEASE OPTIMIZATION
Reduce errors and Improve efficiency
RELEASE ORCHESTRATION
Manage and Plan complex releases
Release Control
Design and execute releases considering
dependencies and priorities
Pluggable Architecture
Allow users to create custom integrations
and reports
Data Analytics
Predictive approach to avoid failures
Full Visibility
See everything related to content
OOTB Plugins
Provide integration with 3rd parties
Intuitive workflow
Emphasis on ease of use
Strategic- what is does Investment ThemesSolution Overview
Release Planning and Pipeline Management

Planned Benefits
• Full visibility on release structure
and progress
• Easy to pinpoint errors and delegate
solution to relevant stakeholders
• Pluggable architecture allows users
to build their own custom tasks and
integrations
• Release templates allow reusability
of release model
Pain
• Every delivery of code is a release. This
increases the number of releases and
makes it hard to track the content
across the environments.
• Several applications and teams can be
involved in a release.
• Predefined set of environments is
required (Dev > Prod), with a different
workflow each.
• Approvals are sometimes needed
before deployment is granted
Planned Solution
• The content of a release is part of the
release definition. Allows visibility of
content across environments (reports
and widgets).
• Multi-application releases, with
dynamic teams.
• Design the phase of the release with
the relevant workflow for each phase.
• Do not promote to next phase until all
approvals are complete
Release Management
Design Complex Releases

Release Execution

Planned Benefits
•Full visibility of releases and
environment state
•Simplify investigation upon
errors
•Optimize Releases
Pain
•Different personas are looking
for different types of
information
•With many releases running
in parallel , it is difficult to see
status, errors and progress
•Need to log into different
products to understand full
picture
Planned Solution
•Customizable dashboard
allows each user to build their
own portal with custom
widgets and filters
•Widgets providing runtime
release data
•All data from 3rd parties is
visible in a single place
Release Dashboard
Full Visibility of your releases

Release Dashboard

Hands on Lab overview
 Release Team Member
– Needs to be able to construct an Application Release containing
multiple applications across Release Automation
– The Release needs to include manual tasks
– Release team need to be able to schedule deployments across
environments and see any maintenance windows
 Application Owner
– Needs to be able to view how Releases are progressing
– Requires a dashboard view of Application releases
User Personas

Getting Started
 Launch Chrome browser
 Select the link “CA Release Planning” from the browser
favourites link
 Login as:
– Username = labuser@ca.com
– Password = 1234
Logging in to the UI

Configure Release Automation Integration
 Click on the “Administration” tab and select “Endpoints”
 Click “Add Endpoint”

Add Endpoint
– Name
 RA Server – Lab
– Description
– CA World Lab
– Endpoint type
 Release Automation
– Host Port
 127.0.0.1 9090
– Username Password
 superuser suser
– Click “Add”
Enter the following “End Point” Details

Application and Environments
 Click on the Administration tab
 Select the option “Application and Environments”

Importing Applications
 Click on “Add External Applications” to define the Release
Automation Server to be used for the Import
 Select the Endpoint “RA Server – Lab”
 Click Import

Importing Applications - Contd
 Release Automation Applications and Environments are
imported and made available.

Maintenance Windows
 Click on the administration link and select Maintenance
Windows
 Click New Window to create a new window
Creating a Maintenance Window

Maintenance Windows - Contd
 Use the following details for creating a Maintenance window
for Thanksgiving
– Name – Thanks Giving
– Description – Black Friday
– Environments – DEV (Finance Backend)
DEV (Finance App)
– Time Frame – November 19th thru
November 30th
Creating a Maintenance Window

Creating a Release
 Releases are the core of CA Release Pipeline Manager.
 Releases are the main, high-level product entities that consist
of workflows for the deployment of multiple applications.
 Click on the “Releases” tab
 Click on “New Release” button

Creating a Release - Continued
 Complete the following sections
– Release Name
– Version
– Description
– In the Applications List select:
 Finance App
 Finance Backend
– Owners
 Labuser@ca.com
 Click Save

Creating a Release – Adding Version number
 Set the Versions for the relevant applications by clicking on
the “Set Version” field and entering the Version number.
 Click the Tick icon to save the version number update.

Creating a Release – Adding Application content
 Content can be added to the applications by clicking on the
“Add Content”.
 Click the Tick icon to save the content update.

What is a Phase
 Phases are organized collections of release deployment steps.
Phases provide a global environment view for all application
activities.
 A typical release has development, QA, and production
phases that consist of the steps necessary to deploy
applications.
 Click on the Create Phase Icon

Creating a Phase
 Complete the following sections
– Phase Name - Development
– Owners – Click to add
 Labuser@ca.com
– Set Phase to Automatic
– Set the From today To November 27th
– Description
– In the Environments List select:
 Dev (Finance Backend)
 Dev (Finance App)
 Click Save

Creating a Task
 Tasks are specific units of work that represent activity
workflows in a release.
 You add tasks to phases in a specific order to piece together
your release pipeline workflow.
 Tasks can be Manual, such as a change request approval.
Tasks can enable the automated execution of integrated
product activities like the run of a CA Release Automation
deployment plan

Creating Tasks
 Click on the Create a task Icon

Creating a task - Manual
 Enter a Task Name and Description
 Assign the owner to Labuser@ca.com
 Set the task type to “Manual”
 Click “Save”

Creating Tasks
 We now have a single manual task in our Development Phase
 Click on “Create Task” to create another task

Creating a task - Automatic
 Assign the owner to
Labuser@ca.com
 Set the task type to “Run
Deployment”
 Select the “Endpoint Type” to “RA
Server –Lab”
 Select the Application “Finance
Backend” in the Content Panel

Creating a task – Automatic Continued
 Enter the following details for the RA deployment to be called:
– Application
 Finance Backend
– Deployment Plan
 Deploy Finance Backend
– Build
 3
– Project
 Sprint1
– Environment
 Dev
 Click Save

Creating Tasks
 We now have two tasks in
our Development Phase
 Click on “Create Task” to
create another task

Creating a task - Automatic
 Assign the owner to Labuser@ca.com
 Set the task type to “Run Deployment”
 Select the “Endpoint type” to “RA Server –Lab”
 Select the Application “Finance App” in the Content Panel

Creating a task – Automatic Continued
 Enter the following details for the RA deployment to be called:
– Application
 Finance App
– Deployment Plan
 Deploy Finance
– Build
 1
– Project
 Sprint2
– Environment
 Dev
 Click Save

Duplicating a Phase
 We now have a simple Phase deploying multiple applications
which could be in separate Release Automation instances
 We will now duplicate the phase
 Click on the icon in the top right hand corner of the phase and
select Duplicate Phase
 Enter a new phase name
– QA

Duplicating a Task
 Modify the Phase date range
 Remove the Dev environments by
clicking on the X next to each
environment
 Add the QA environments for
– Finance App
– Finance Backend

Editing Tasks
 The newly duplicated phase can be edited to update / disable
and delete tasks.

Running a Phase
 Click on the arrow in yellow to start running the Development
Phase

Interacting with Manual Tasks
 Select the action icon in the bottom right hand corner of the
manual task
 Select the option “Done”
 The manual task is marked as “Done”

Automated Tasks
 The Manual task is complete
 Automatically the next task is started
 Deployment starts in Release Automation

Automatic Promotion
 When a Phase is completed if the next phase is automatic it
will automatically start

Activity Panel
 The activity panel shows all events in relation to
the release
 The “Filter by Selection” will filter the view to
show events for the selected task
 Activities can also be filtered by severity

Release Automation
 Click on the “CA Release Automation” link
 Login as :
– User = superuser
– Password = suser
 Click on the “Deployment Overview tab”

Dashboards
 In The CA Project SNOW UI
 Click on the Dashboard link in the top left hand corner
 The My To-Do List shows any manual tasks pending for the
logged in user
 Click on the Pending Task

Working with Manual Task
 Click on the Manual task and select Done to complete the
manual step

Completing a Release
 Click on the Thumbs up icon to mark the release as complete

Customising Dashboards
 Click on the Dashboard Link
 Create a new Dashboard Tab by clicking on the + Sign
 Name the Dashboard and click Save

Dashboard reports and widgets
 The left hand panel contains the reports and widgets
 Reports
– Applications
– Release Productivity
– Sample Reports
– Application Report
 Widgets
– Release Cycle Time
– My To-Do’s
– Phase Idle Time
– Slow Tasks

Customising Dashboards
 The left hand panel contains the reports and widgets
 Double click on the following Widgets / Report:
– Widget
 Cycle Time
 My To-Do’s
– Report
 Release Productivity

Release Overview
 Click on the Release tab
 List all running and completed releases

Calendar View
 Click on the Calendar Link to view the Release overview and
the Maintenance Windows

Application Pipeline Report
 Click on the Reports link
 Select the following two applications
– Finance App
– Finance Backend
 Click Add Selected

Application Pipeline Report
 The report shows which releases have been deployed to the
various environments including the version number and any
release content

Insight into the deployment of all release content
• Define content for a release that could span multiple teams and multiple applications
• Define deployment order and dependencies between applications
• Configure approvals across applications and phases
• Orchestration collaboration between all release deployment stakeholders
• Configure a clear promotion path using global environments
• Respond to release status in real time to ensure success
Summary

Recommended Sessions
SESSION # TITLE DATE/TIME
DO4X210L
Hands-On Lab: Build Integrations You Need with CA
Release Automation Rapid Development Kit (RDK) and
Software Development Kit (SDK)
11/19/2015 at 3:00 pm
DO4T20S
Case Study: Euroclear Adopts Continuous Delivery for
New Customer-Facing Application
11/19/2015 at 4:30 pm
DO4T33T
Tech Talk: Evolve from Continuous Integration to
Continuous Delivery
11/19/2015 at 12:15 pm

Must See Demos
CA Release
Automation
CA Release
Automation
Theater 4
CA Release
Pipeline
Manager
Theater 4
CA RA Rapid
Dev. Kit, SDK
CA Release
Automation
Theater 4
Integrations
CA Release
Automation
Theater 4

Follow On Conversations At…
Smart Bar
CA Release Pipeline
Manager
Theater 4
Tech Talks
CA Release
Automation
Theater 4

Q & A

For More Information
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