Datasheet ssh pluginforrd
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This document discusses the benefits of automation for various IT projects including middleware upgrades, migrating applications to open-source platforms to reduce costs, building private clouds, upgrading core business applications, platform migrations, and rearchitecting IT infrastructures. It also summarizes the SSH plugin for RapidDeploy, which enables automation of deployments and management of target systems using secure shell (SSH) connections. The plugin supports username/password and private key authentication to configure targets.
Datasheet ssh pluginforrd
- 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. SSH Insights • You need to connect your RapidDeploy™ server to your targets in order to perform deployments - but do you want an agent based or agentless deploy? We offer both options and our customers make their choices based on their infrastructure processes and procedures and security policies. RapidDeploy™ Plugin for SSH 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 SSH plugin. Plugins are downloaded through the Plugin Manager console in RapidDeploy™, or from the MidVision website at www.midvision.com. RapidDeploy™TransportPlugins
- 2. SSH Plugin Overview This transport plugin for RapidDeploy™ enables RapidDeploy™ to connect to a target using the ever popular SSH protocol. This plugin equips RapidDeploy framework server with a fully integrated, java based, ssh client. You can configure connectivity to target hosts via Ssh using username/password authentication or public/ private key authentication with or without passphrase secured keys. Each target host can be configured to support multiple different authenticated users. The Ssh plugin can be used to deploy java and the required RapidDeploy jar files to the target as a precursor to managing the target with the remote agent plugin, or you can just use Ssh to run all of your jobs on the specified target. 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 www.midvision.com©MidVision2013.Allrightsreserved.RapidDeploy™TransportPlugins 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.