Articles
Read about some of the fundamental concepts in our space. Best practices are explained, and timely insights into new practices presented across a range of build, deploy, and automation topics.
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Fidelity Worldwide Investment Customer Success Story
Discover how a leading international provider of investment funds used uDeploy to reduce deployment times from day to hours, in this customer success story.
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Blueprint Synopsis: IIS Deployment Automation with uDeploy
uDeploy's integration with IIS provides both Auto-discovery and process automation. The IIS plugin lets you create reliable, repeatable, automated component processes. This blueprint shows how you can automate the process of creating a website and application pool on IIS and deploying an application to it using uDeploy and the IIS plugin.
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Blueprint Synopsis: Websphere Deployment Automation with uDeploy
How uDeploy automates WAS deployments and makes them more consistent, less error prone, and much faster. This automated deployment process opens the door to continuous improvement; it can be incorporated into a continuous delivery pipeline; it can be made available via a self-service portal; and it will improve your time to market.
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DevOps Toolchain Data Sheet
Discover how UrbanCode's DevOps suite of tools can propel your most complex deployments. From code to production, UrbanCode provides tools with enterprise scalability. Find out about all of our tools here.
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uRelease Data Sheet
Learn how uRelease, our release management and coordination platform, manages dozens of complex interdependent applications in a release.
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uDeploy Data Sheet
See how automating your deployment process with uDeploy can help reduce deployment errors by 90 percent!
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AnthillPro Data Sheet
Explore the benefits of using AnthillPro to manage and automate your entire software lifecycle — from build, to deploy, to release — with test orchestration, dependency management, IT governance and security.
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From CI to CD
Discover how to avoid bottlenecks in your software delivery pipeline by using uDeploy to transition painlessly from Continuous Integration to Continuous Delivery!
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Why Switch to DevOps?
Learn how you can accomplish more in less time, increase the frequency of software delivery, and produce higher quality software; all without adding overhead!
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Enterprise CI/CD Maturity Model Wall Chart
Often when we talk with a new team we use this wall chart and hand-out as a basis for understanding where they are with continuous integration and Continuous Delivery as well as what they would like to achieve.
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What is a Build Management Server?
A short article that introduces a formal model of a build process. The article then discusses the difference between developer and authoritative builds.
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What is a BuildLife?
A short article introducing the concept of a BuildLife. One of the key discussion points is the difference between the BuildLife approach and the approach of using different build types.
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Reuse Maturity Model
An older article that explains the different approaches for organizing source code for reuse.
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Best Practices for Pain-free Building
We've worked with hundreds of development organizations and we've seen what works and what causes problems. This article presents a distilled list of practices that, based on our experience, reduce the headaches that can sometimes result from an unwieldy build process.
