Slides from the Jun 11, 2013 Global WebSphere Community webinar "Deploy. Faster. Automating and Accelerating Application Deployments to IBM WebSphere without Scripting"

1. Deploy.
Faster.
Automa'ng
and
Accelera'ng
Applica'on
Deployments
to
IBM
WebSphere
without
Scrip'ng

2. • VP Products for XebiaLabs
• Lots of enterprise software development on high-
performance systems
• Been on both sides of the “Dev…Ops” fence
• Active open source contributor and committer:
jclouds, Akka, Gradle and others
• Cloud, PaaS & JVM language fan (mainly Scala, Clojure)
• Regular meetup, conference etc. presenter
A Bit About Me…

3. Our flagship product, Deployit, is a market-leading
Application Release Automation platform.
o Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts
o Global development and support offices in
US, EMEA and APAC
Our Company. Our Platform.
Benefits include:
o Reduce development applications costs
o Accelerate application time to market
o Bridge the gap between Development and Operations

4. • The Bigger Automation Picture
• Deployment: The Situation Today
• Deployment in your Automation
Landscape
• WebSphere Automation Challenges
• Deployit: A Deployment Automation
Solution for WebSphere
• Building on Deployment Automation:
DevOps, PaaS and more
Agenda

5. o Economic environment
o Business pressure
o “Always on, always new”
consumer expectation
o Growth in # applications
o Growth in # releases
The Bigger Picture

6. Bridging the gap
The Situation Today
Release
Packaging
Public / Private
Hybrid Cloud
Middleware
Build
SCM
Continuous
Integration
IDEs
Provisioning
Platform as a
Service
Dev Ops

7. What’s Wrong with the Situation Today?
High Error Rate
Lots of Delays
Manual
Deployments
Too Complex
o 20 components to be deployed per
application
o A mix of middleware environments
Repetitive & Manual
o 10 versions of 50 applications
o Onto 4 environments
o 5 times a day/week/month
o = 2,000+ error-prone activities
No Best Practice
o Standardization lacking
o Split responsibilities across Dev/QA/Prod

8. What’s Wrong with the Situation Today?
The Resulting Problem:
Complex scripts and many
deployment workflows to maintain.
Applications Environments
Test
Acceptance
Production
HR
Sales
Backend
Online Store
Mix of Homemade Scripts & Manual
Deployments
o Costly to maintain over time
o Application and middleware specific
o Error prone
o Operational manuals not updated
Organizational Impacts
o Unpredictable deployments
o Time consuming, low VA tasks
o Ops and Dev autonomy
Business Impacts
o Longer time to market
o Costs/OPEX
o Availability of business apps/risks

9. Why Automate the Deployment Process?
Ronni J. Colville,
George Spafford
“Through 2015… more
than 50% of those
outages will be caused
by change/
configuration/
release integration and
hand-off issues.”
Jay Lyman
“The application
deployment process in
many large enterprises
today is often manual,
error-ridden and time-
intensive.”
Jeffrey S. Hammond
“Firms are discovering
that the velocity of
business change is now
limited by how quickly
they can deploy.”

10. Deployit in your Automation Landscape
Release
Packaging
Public / Private
Hybrid Cloud
Middleware
Build
SCM
Continuous
Integration
IDEs
Provisioning
Platform as a
Service
Bridging the gapDev Ops

11. How Deployit is Different
Enterprise
Scalability
Best Practice
Extensibility
Insight and
Compliance
Lightweight &
Cloud Ready

12. o Complete, environment-independent deployment package
o Standardized deployment mechanism from Dev to Prod
o Separation of Dev and Ops responsibilities
o Automated prerequisite checks and post-deployment
verification steps
o Integrated, repeatable environment provisioning
o Validated and tested rollback
o Secure self-service
o Insight and improvement metrics
Best Practices for ARA

13. 1. Versioning
o Versioned Artifacts together with Application
Configuration
o Versioned WebSphere Environment Configuration
2. Automation
o Automated Application and Configuration Deployment
o Automated WebSphere Middleware Provisioning
o Fully Reproducible and Transferable Setups
o Secure Self-Service
3. Integration
o Consider the Entire WebSphere Stack
o Consider Components Outside the WebSphere Stack
o Integration with the Development Toolchain
Challenges for WebSphere Automation

14. 1. Extensive out-of-the-box support for WAS, MQ, Portal, Process
Server and more
2. Topology and resource discovery for fast implementation
and migration
3. Integration with SmartCloud/IWD, Chef etc. for on-demand
environment provisioning
4. One unified, simple deployment interface across and
beyond the WebSphere stack
5. Fine-grained comparison and history to catch configuration
drift
6. Fully configurable using only native interfaces
7. Fully extensible without coding
8. …
Deployit & WebSphere

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Confidential.
Extensive Out-of-the-box Support

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Confidential.
Topology and Resource Discovery

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Confidential.
Integration with Environment Provisioning

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Confidential.
Unified, Simple Interface

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Confidential.
Configuration Drift Management

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Confidential.
Fully Configurable and Extensible

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Confidential.
Fully Configurable and Extensible

22. Best Practice Enterprise ARA

23. Building on Automated Deployments

24. Continuous
Delivery
o Leverage self-service capacity and automation to
provide a private “PaaS interface” to your WebSphere
platform
o Integrate with Continuous Integration and release
coordination to build Continuous Delivery pipelines
o Shared automation and insight at application
and middleware configuration level
for DevOps collaboration
Building on Automated Deployments
DevOps
PaaS

25. DEMO?
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demo for your team
Demo

26. Thank You!
Next Steps
o More information
www.xebialabs.com
o Whitepaper: “Improve Your Deployment Process to IBM WebSphere”
go.xebialabs.com/AssetLandingPageWebSphere10BestPractices_1Register.html
Contact Details
o Andrew Phillips
o aphillips at xebialabs dot com
o blog.xebialabs.com/author/aphillips
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