Automating The Jee Deployment Process
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This document discusses the challenges of automating JEE deployment processes in enterprises. It notes that manual or homegrown deployment scripts are often insufficient and can be expensive due to the need for specialized staff. Automating the deployment process through a tool is presented as a key solution that can help standardize steps, reduce costs, prevent configuration drift between environments, and provide capabilities like previewing changes and logging deployments. Overall it argues that deployment automation is important for reducing challenges and costs in IT.
Automating The Jee Deployment Process
- 1. Automating JEE Deployment Process Vikas Hazrati www.xebiaindia.com
- 2. Challenges Of Deployment Are Getting Tough Everyday
- 3. Enterprises and System Administrators are Juggling with Deployment Challenges
- 4. On Average Enterprise is Spending $852,187 Per Year for Deployments
- 5. Bringing Down This Cost is an Achievable Goal
- 6. Automating the Deployment Process is the Key
- 7. ===== Act II, Scene 1
- 8. Earlier Those were the days
- 9. Enterprise JEE Deployment is a Complex Task
- 10. For Each Application There are Multiple Deployment Categories
- 11. Configuring the Deployment Categories is an Involved Process Installing the Application Configuring Resources Configuring Middleware Repeating the same Components Steps across environments Starting / Stopping Components Maintaining the Order
- 12. Support for Multiple Deployment Categories Report on the status of each category
- 13. Amount of Infrastructure Increases as Business Grows
- 14. Data Centers are Around the World
- 15. Manual Deployment or Home Grown Scripts Often Fall Short
- 16. Suggest Deployment steps based on different Easy to write / plugin deployment scripts Deployment categories Suggest Deployment steps based on different Deployment categories Standard deployment steps should be overridable
- 17. Workload Associated with Managing Applications is Growing
- 18. Reasons for Increase in Workload Complexity is Little or no Tooling is Often Automation limited ignored
- 19. ===== Act II, Scene 2
- 20. Enterprise JEE Deployment is Expensive
- 21. Large Number of Specialized Staff Required for Deployment and Script Writing
- 22. AD Can Help by Reducing the Cost
- 23. Time Spent on Configuration Issues is High
- 24. Should have the capability to use separate configuration files for DTAP environments
- 25. Downtime Leads to Lost Money
- 26. ===== Act II, Scene 3
- 27. Enterprise JEE Deployment is Unpredictable
- 28. Too Much Dependent on People
- 30. Should show the current state of the deployment Preview of changes Should maintain a history of deployment changes Log all changes
- 31. Should show the current state of the deployment Version the configuration changes in source control Transaction Boundries and Rollback ???
- 42. ===== Act III
- 43. Enterprise Deployments are Marred With Challenges and High Costs
- 44. Deployment Automation is the Key to IT's Future
- 45. Start With One of the Products and Take One Bite at a Time
- 46. Automating Deployment – Makes You Feel Better