Datasheet apachepluginforrd
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The document discusses the benefits of automating various IT projects and processes using automation tools. It describes how automation can speed up middleware upgrades, application migrations, building private clouds, core application upgrades/migrations, platform migrations, and rearchitecting IT environments. It then provides details on an Apache plugin for RapidDeploy, an automation tool, which allows for deploying and managing Apache configurations, taking snapshots of environments over time to detect configuration changes, and deploying WAR files.
Datasheet apachepluginforrd
- 1. Compelling Events for Automation • Middleware Upgrades It’s great when new vendors bring out new features - but often taking advantage of them takes a good deal of time and effort to upgrade the new infrastructure - and introduces risk. Automating the upgrade project speeds it up, reduces the risk and builds a more manageable platform in the future. • Migrating off ‘Premium Product’ With the economy as it is, more organizations are forced to tighten their belts, and one area that has come under particular scrutiny is the annual cost of maintaining installed software. Some organizations have made the decision to move less business critical applications off more expensive middleware onto open-source platforms such as JBoss and Tomcat. This type of project is accelerated when it’s automated and an automation tool makes managing hybrid or heterogeneous environments much easier. • Building a PAAS or a private cloud With pressure on businesses to deliver more innovation to their customers, faster, we see many of our customers building Platforms As A Service and private clouds. These are a lot faster and quicker to set up using an automation tool, and a lot quicker to manage demand once they are up and running. • Core business application upgrades or migrations Many of our customers occasionally need to upgrade or even replace their core business applications - often complex, multi-layered, integrated systems that have evolved over time and have many integration points and are absolutely critical to the minute by minute operations of the business. Using an automation tool can reduce the risk and time associated with such a project. • Platform migrations Sometimes it’s time to move from one platform to another - for instance, customers sometimes feel that a UNIX based platform will offer them performance advantages over an OS400 platform. But moving hundreds of middleware applications might seem like a challenge too far - without automation. • Rearchitecting Change is a constant and businesses need to continually evolve their IT infrastructure and operations, build new environments for things like Disaster Recovery and automating the build and deployment of these new environments means delivering them faster. Apache Insights • This plugin allows for the snapshot of Apache configuration at a point in time and comparison with other snapshots to compare changes in configuration over time and manage/identify configuration drift. The snapshot may also be used as the basis for a template which can then be deployed to further downstream Apache environments applying environment specific changes by use of a data dictionary file. • The plugin also allows for the controlled deployment of WAR files to target Apache environments. RapidDeploy™ Plugin for Apache RapidDeploy™ provides organizations with Application Release Automation capabilities to reduce costs, improve productivity and time to value and assure compliance. There is a range of plugins available to extend the core automation framework capabilities to most available platforms and perform integrations throughout the DevOps toolchain. This datasheet refers to the Apache plugin. Plugins are downloaded through the Plugin Manager console in RapidDeploy™, or from the MidVision website at www.midvision.com. RapidDeploy™TargetPlugins
- 2. Apache Plugin Overview RapidDeploy™’s Apache plugin provides automated deployment and configuration management of Apache web servers and content. Additionally, the plugin provides the capability to: • Install Apache web server • Snapshot Apache configurations and environments • Create templates from the snapshots • Compare snapshots enabling the detection of triage of configuration drift by comparing environment configurations • Promote templates to create new configurations downstream. The promote function is undertaken through the RapidDeploy™ Snapshot / Template / Promote framework and doesn’t rely on any scripts Apache Tasks • BinaryInstallTask - Install Apache binaries on Windows or Linux/Unix • MsiPackageInstallTask - Install Apache binaries via an MSI package on Windows • DeployConfigurationTask - Deploy Apache template configuration file(s) that was collected via a snapshot or manually added to the SCM tool. • StartApacheTask - Start the Apache servers • StopApacheTask - Stop the Apache servers Apache Plugin Versions The Apache plugin supports Apache HTTP server V2.x. If you use a version of Apache that is not listed here and you would like to manage it using RapidDeploy™ please email sales@midvision.com with the details. For future versions, we aim to have support within two quarters of the vendor announcing general availability, although customer demand can accelerate our development roadmap. RapidDeploy™ Plugins The RapidDeploy™ plugins extend the functionality of the core automation framework and are categorised in the following way: • Toolchain plugins enabling integration with Build Engines, Artifact repositories and Source Control Management tools • Transport plugins enabling use of SSH and Agent capability • Target plugins enabling connectivity with broad range of Middleware Applications and Databases • Cloud plugins enabling connectivity to cloud providers • Business Intelligence plugins to extend the CAF including for example, enhanced comparison functionality and additional reporting capabilities Plugins ship with: • A Library of commonly used tasks • Wizards extensive help information • Predefined automation library elements Want this plugin? Getting hold of it’s easy - either: 1) Go to the Plugin Manager in your installation of RapidDeploy™ and pick your plugin from the list or 2) Go to www.midvision.com Support Downloads RapidDeploy Plugin Downloads and select your plugin from there. If you have any problems, please call or email your MidVision Account Manager. You must license your plugin separately - please speak to your MidVision Account Manager or email sales@midvision.com. If you are an IBM Rational Automation Framework customer and would like access to this plugin, please contact us at www.midvision.com. www.midvision.com©MidVision2013.Allrightsreserved.RapidDeploy™TargetPlugins