White Papers
Detailed technical information as well as in depth discussions on industry challenges and solutions. Focus on Build and Deployment topics and the latest approaches to Continuous Integration, deployment automation, and Continuous delivery.
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7 Proven Practices to Strengthen Release Management
Business needs, market trends, and customer demands are forcing IT teams to deploy applications at a rapid rate. The frequency of the deployments can invoke human errors, failed deployments, and outages. This paper will guide you through seven best practices that will strengthen the way applications are released to production.
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ROI: The Value of Deployment Automation
How will we benefit from adding a software deployment automation framework? Whose work will be impacted by the changes it brings? Can we justify the investment in making the transition to automated deployments? This guide will help you answer these questions and explain how a deployment automation framework can streamline release operations and increase business agility.
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Deployment Automation Basics
Why should we bother automating deployments in the first place? What should the scope of the automation effort be? How do we get started? This white paper provides a solid introduction to these topics.
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Build and Deployment Automation for the Lean Economy
The shorter cycle times of Agile means more builds, more deployments and more releases. The adoption of SOA means more complexity and more elements to juggle. The move to global, round-the-clock 24-hour development means more teams to service and less downtime. And in this economy adding headcount is likely not an option. Instead you are told to get Lean and Mean. But how do you get to Lean and Mean without being stretched too thin? This paper shows you how build and deployment automation offers fertile ground for dramatic productivity gains that will improve the efficiency of the entire team.
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Enterprise Continuous Delivery Maturity Model
In recent years the role of automation in software development has expanded dramatically. Continuous Delivery has increased automation efforts throughout the software development lifecycle. This is especially true in enterprise development projects — where distributed teams and strict governance requirements are the norm.
The level of automation that can be achieved is largely dependent on the maturity of the practices in the organization. How mature are your Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Release practices? Where can you get the most improvement based on your specific problems and needs? How are other organizations solving these same problems? This guide can help you answer these questions.
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Continuous Integration and Build Management Server Evaluation Guide
This paper is organized around three feature sets that we typically see in evaluation scenarios. The first feature set focuses on Continuous Integration and provides some of the basic functionality required for an implementation of either Continuous Integration and/or Build Management. In this way, the Continuous Integration feature set lays the foundation for the Build Management feature set that follows.
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Drawing the Line: Continuous Integration and Build Management
This paper seeks to get at the true nature of Continuous Integration and Build Management by decomposing each practice into its constituent elements and examining the repercussions thereof.
