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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, platform migrations, and rearchitecting IT environments. The document also summarizes RapidDeploy, an application release automation tool, and its plugin for DataPower which allows automating tasks like taking snapshots of DataPower domains, deploying domain changes, and managing DataPower devices.
Datasheet datapowerpluginforrd
- 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. . DataPower Insights • This plugin augments the framework server with the ability to take a snapshot of a DataPower domain (development domain) and store the domain configuration in the SCM tool defined for the RapidDeploy™ DataPower project. This domain is then packaged into a release and can be deployed to further downstream domains. • Domain specific values are stored in a data dictionary and are dynamically injected into the package at deployment time. RapidDeploy™ Plugin for Datapower 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 Datapower plugin. Plugins are downloaded through the Plugin Manager console in RapidDeploy™, or from the MidVision website at www.midvision.com. RapidDeploy™TargetPlugin
- 2. DataPower Plugin Overview Using the RapidDeploy™ plugin for DataPower enables you to take snapshots of a domain or domain component and compare them. You can download and store development domains and baseline a domain via a SCM tool. The plugin enables the creation of domain neutral deployment packages (abstraction of environment specific configuration items) and the deployment of domain changes to multiple downstream target environments. You can deploy multiple domain updates to multiple target domains/devices in parallel or serially and link to other components that have dependencies on these changes such as Web server or application server deployments. You can apply firmware upgrade, stop / start / restart the domain / device / adapters and manage the device users and groups through RapidDeploy™. DataPower Plugin Versions The RapidDeploy™ DataPower plugin supports DataPower versions 5.x. If you use a version of DataPower 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 IBM 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™TargetPlugin