Recent Blog EntriesRSS feed
  • End to End Automation by Any Other Name
    As build lifecycle automation has expanded beyond build and unit test and moved into deployments, promotions, and releases over the last few years, a number of terms have popped up to describe what people are doing. We hear about Enterprise Continuous ...
  • 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 ...
Recent ResponsesRSS feed for 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...
Navigate
March 2010
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
   1   2   3   4   5   6 
  7   8   9  10  11  12  13 
 14  15  16  17  18  19  20 
 21  22  23  24  25  26  27 
 28  29  30  31    
Feb  |  Today  |  Apr

Categories | Tags | Advanced Search
Archives
2010
September (1)
August (4)
July (5)
June (5)
May (2)
April (5)
March (3)
February (7)
January (6)

2009
December (3)
November (3)
October (2)
September (7)
August (8)
July (3)
June (8)
May (3)
April (2)
March (3)
February (3)
January (3)

2008
December (2)
November (2)
October (3)
September (1)
August (1)
July (2)
June (1)
May (0)
April (1)
March (2)
February (1)
January (0)

2007
December (0)
November (0)
October (1)
September (0)
August (1)
July (0)
June (1)

Summary of blogsRSS feed
Urbancode Blogs RSS feed
AnthillPro Blog - News and Info about AnthillPro.RSS feed
The Devil in the Details - A blog about the practice of software development.RSS feed
Our Daily Read
The Build Doctor
CITCON Aggregator
Login
Username
Password
Remember me

Announcing AnthillPro 3.7.3 and Websphere Message Broker Plugin

AnthillPro 3.7.3


AnthillPro 3.7.3 has been released. The full release notes are available in the support area of this website. This release was mostly focused on bug fixes and UI tweaks, but it also included a few goodies.
  • The Accurev plugin now supports workspace updates for faster CI builds
  • TFS 2010 support has been added to complement the existing 2005 and 2008 drivers
  • The cleanup process has been streamlined to provide performance and less load on the database.

Websphere Message Broker integration

A new plugin is available through Urbancode Supportal that supports automated deployment to Websphere Message Broker (WMB). This integration will reduce the amount of script writing required to perform these deployments. The integration can dynamically discover which flows are running on a broker, start and stop message flows, deploy a broker archive (BAR) to the broker, as well as set properties on the archive.

This new integration uses the Plugin v2 schema and is compatible with AnthillPro 3.7.3+ and 3.8.x. In April, we'll look at how the additional plugin schema streamlines writing some types of plugins as well as look at 3.8.
Tags :
Add a comment RSS feed for responses to this blog entry
Posted by Jeffery Fredrick on March 31, 2010 3:06:00 PM EDT#

AnthillPro Video: User selectable agents for deploy/test

One of my favorite features in AnthillPro 3.7 is also one of the least well understood ones. Scripted workflow properties allow the system to prompt users to supply input to a workflow based on current conditions, other properties values, or even the output of a quick job.

In this video, we look at scenario where the team wants to give the user kicking off the workflow a list of all the agents that are online in the target environment to select which agents the workflow will run on. We've seen this technique used quite a lot for ad-hoc testing and occasionally in deployment scenarios where each tester has one or two machines in QA that belongs to them.

Video below the fold...

Read more...

Tags :
Responses[1] RSS feed for responses to this blog entry
Posted by Eric Minick on March 17, 2010 9:48:00 AM EDT#

Webcast: The Role of Binary Repositories in Software Configuration Management



Broadcast Date: Mon., Mar. 15, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. EDT
Speakers: Jeffrey Fredrick, Urbancode Technical Evangelist; Eric Minick, Urbancode Lead Consultant
Register Now
How confident are you with the content of what you are about to release? Do you know every change since the last release? Can you reproduce the release at will? Many of the teams we meet struggle with these fundamental issues of Software Configuration Management.

The most successful teams solve these problems by leveraging a binary repository or -- in ITIL terminology -- a Definitive Software Library (DSL). By providing an authoritative source for release artifacts, a well-managed binary repository can help address issues of compliance, traceability, and audit. Combined with dependency management, a binary repository provides a valuable starting point for impact and risk analysis.

But the benefit of using a binary repository is also felt earlier in the software-development lifecycle: By enabling effective component-based development, a binary repository can enable faster build times, facilitate more efficient collaboration between teams, and reduce the learning curve for new developers.

For software-configuration-management professionals who are concerned with audits or improving the efficiency of the software-development lifecycle, Eric Minick and Jeffrey Fredrick invite you to join them for this presentation where they will address:
  • traditional approaches to controlling binary artifacts, including their shortcomings;
  • essential elements of well-managed binary repository and inter-project dependency management; as well as
  • patterns for adopting a binary repository and implementing dependency management.
Add a comment RSS feed for responses to this blog entry
Posted by Eric Minick on March 11, 2010 11:33:00 AM EST#

© 2006-2010 Urbancode, Inc.
Anthill, AnthillPro, and AnthillOS are trademarks of Urbancode, Inc.
All other trademarks are owned by their respective owners.
tel: (216) 858-9000 fax: i (216) 393-0006 email:info@urbancode.com