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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...

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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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New Property Loader

To kick off the new year, I put together a little plugin to address the age old problem: "Hey, how can I use my application's property file settings to change AnthillPro's behavior?" Ok, so most of you don't have that problem. But some of you do and it's a pain.

The ahptool command line widget available in 3.7 allows properties to be set from the agent but takes its input as an XML document.

Read on to see how this works in a video and download the plugin (compatible with AnthillPro 3.7+).