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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 ... |
Aug 30, 2010 |
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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 ... |
Aug 16, 2010 |
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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 ... |
Aug 11, 2010 |
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On-Demand Testing Environments
A pattern we are increasingly seeing in our customers employ is on-demand testing environments using virtualization. These can take many forms and be accessible just to automation or face development and testing teams... |
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Using AnthillPro if you already have Hudson
Many of our customers had a CI tool before even looking at AnthillPro. In the past, they were primarily CruiseControl users. Today, most have Hudson and a few have a commercial CI tool like Bamboo or TeamCity. While some of these customers have since ... |
Jun 30, 2010 |
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Using the AnthillPro Relay
Recently, a couple customers asked me about the Relay Server option for AnthillPro. Since it seems to be something relatively unknown, I thought today's blog post could provide an overview. The Relay Server has two main purposes ▪ Proxying agents ... |
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Continuous Integration that doesn't fit in 10 Minutes
The CI community has made plenty of compelling arguments that fast builds facilitate continuous integration. And by "fast" we mean the time it takes to get a cup of coffee or just at least under 10 minutes. But what do we do when the build ... |
Jun 16, 2010 |
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CollabNet TeamForge Plugin for AnthillPro
Urbancode is pleased to announce the release of a CollabNet TeamForge plugin for AnthillPro. The TeamForge integration allows AnthillPro to work with TeamForge like it does other bug and story trackers. AnthillPro can: Create a list of TeamForge ... |
May 11, 2010 |
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File Utilities in a Plugin
For me, a common annoyance when creating AnthillPro workflows is working with files and directories in a cross platform way. How do you delete a directory, or create a file as part of a workflow that's going to run on windows machines and unix machines. ... |
May 7, 2010 |
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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 ... |
Mar 31, 2010 |
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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 ... |
Mar 17, 2010 |
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AnthillPro Security for Auditors
Eric Starr over at Anthillizer provides a how-to for creating an Auditor Role in your AnthillPro. He suggests default "read" or "view" permissions across the board but no execute permissions. Seems like a reasonable strategy for most ... |
Feb 17, 2010 |
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Configure a Multiplatform Build in AnthillPro
A common build scenario is to need to compile on several different platforms. The basic build is all the same, but a couple parameters change platform to platform. Here we look at the basics of configuring this kind of scenario in AnthillPro. You need: ... |
Feb 15, 2010 |
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Chaperoning Promiscuous Software
Every developer has done it. We just needed a bit of XML parsing or a better utility for dealing with connections. So we downloaded a library, stuck it in our code base and used it. It feels good, but reusing software without testing and managing it is ... |
Jan 25, 2010 |
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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 ... |
Jan 4, 2010 |
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New Ruby Plugin
We're pleased to release a new plugin for running Ruby scripts. Teams have been running Ruby scripts through the shell builder for quite a while and now have the option to use a full integration within AnthillPro. We allow you to track specific versions ... |
Dec 23, 2009 |
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Using VMWare with Temporary Test Environments
One of the things the economic down-turn has done, is refocus teams on efficiently using resources. Virtualization was already accelerating but remains an area where teams are trying to use the same hardware for a number of different purposes. ... |
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Request Contexts
In this article, we look at an advanced concept in AnthillPro: the context a build or deployment requests exists within. The idea of a request context is foreign to most AnthillPro users and administrators but is key to understanding how AnthillPro ... |
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Creating New Default Properties
Many teams have common conventions that are occasionally broken and would benefit from adding a new default property that they could override. This article looks at how teams can set-up smart defaults in AnthillPro. |
Nov 3, 2009 |
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Setting aside Build, Deploy, Test, Release
Ok, so AnthillPro is all about automating the build lifecycle: building, testing, deploying and all that good stuff. Go to the front page of AnthillPro.com and you'll see "Build. Deploy. Test. Release" displayed prominently - as it has been for ... |
Oct 22, 2009 |
