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Deployment Automation: The End of Plug-n-Pray

Speaking to a customer recently, I was told: "Honestly, our favorite thing about moving to AnthillPro is that we've moved beyond 'Plug-n-Pray' deployments. You know, many of our deployments were so scary we'd have a bunch of people in the office ...
AnthillPro is a Maven Repository!

AnthillPro's integrated build artifact repository is one of our favorite things about the tool. After all, if you're going to support moving a build through it's lifecycle towards production with deployments and tests, it's helpful to manage the files ...
Build and Deployment Pipelines

Michael Sayko, a software configuration management consultant based in Austin, Texas, wrote a great article for CM Crossroads on the advantages of a build pipeline approach to build and deployment automation. You should check it out. I'm a big fan of the ...
Q&A from Enterprise Build-Deploy-Test-Release Webinar

Last week Jeffery and presented BDTR Automation in the Enterprise where we discussed the drivers for expanding automation from the team level to the enterprise level, as well as the requisite technical and social components to the design and rollout of ...
Questions an Enterprise CI System Should Answer

In our webinar on Build-Deploy-Test-Re...

Recent Responses

Re: Q&A from Enterprise Build-Deploy-Test-Release Webinar
Many thanks Eric. This is indeed good food for thought.
Re: DevOps: The Rise of QA?
Oliver, While I tend to agree with you in principal, when I visit customers and ask them what test environments they have, they usually say something like, "Well, we have dev test, QA, UAT...." What happens in the QA environment? "Well, ...
Enterprise CI Cultural Maturity
Great post and ideas! I’m going to share this with the rest of my team as we work more with enterprise-level clients. Thanks and Regards/- a href="http://en...

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Using AnthillPro 3.6 to Roll-up Change History

AnthillPro has always made it easy to see not just the source code changes that went into its builds, but also the changes to the projects a build depends on. Starting in 3.6, it also makes it easy to see a historical roll-up of changes to the build and its dependencies.

AnthillPro Agent Selection Video

We like to use the AnthillPro blog to explain features and provide tips. As an experiment, this entry includes a video that discusses how AnthillPro selects an agent to run a job on from a cloud of build, test and deployment machines.

Continuous Integration Maturity Model

One of the great sessions of CITCON (Continuous Integration and Testing Conference) NA 2009, was a group effort to design a CI maturity model or road map. The session designed a maturity model for continuous integration server implementations.