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UrbanCode Velocity

UrbanCode Velocity Value Stream Metrics: Key Insights

April 8, 2020
“When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it.” ~ William Thomson Kelvin, physicist, mathematician and engineer In Agile and Lean software development environments, the numbers and data are metrics used to understand, control, and improve what we do and…
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UrbanCode Velocity

Shell Script Tasks with UrbanCode Velocity

April 8, 2020
A new “Shell” plugin in UrbanCode Velocity 1.5.1 brings the powerful flexibility of containerized shell execution as part of deployment plans. Simply add the plugin and integration to Velocity and you will be able to configure deployment plan templates with a new type of task to “Run a Shell Script”. …
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UrbanCode Build

How to customize the UrbanCode Build Agent Docker image

March 24, 2020
Agents are light-weight processes that are installed on hosts and communicate with the UrbanCode Build server. Agents run commands on the host, move files to and from it, and work with other tools installed on the host. Agents are responsible for running builds and driving third-party tools. After an agent…
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UrbanCode Build

How to run UrbanCode Build Server in a Docker container

March 24, 2020
UrbanCode Build is a continuous integration and builds management server optimized for the enterprise. It is designed to make it easy to scale the configuration and management of your build infrastructure and seamlessly plug into development, testing and release tooling. Running UrbanCode Build, as containers, make installation of the server…
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UrbanCode Build

Execute builds on Mainframe with UrbanCode Build

March 24, 2020
Starting from version 6.1.5, UrbanCode Build agents can run on IBM z/OS through Unix System Services (usually abbreviated as USS), which is a required component of IBM z/OS that is included by default. Since the initial introduction of UrbanCode Build to z/OS, the installation procedure has gone through several changes.…
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UrbanCode Build

How to view the working directory of an Agent in the UrbanCode Build GUI

March 24, 2020
The Agent Workspace viewer is a feature which is available on UrbanCode Build 6.1.6.0 or higher versions. This feature enables users to view the working directory for a build in real time without having to log on to the actual machine where the Agent executes builds. This can be very…
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Events and News

Seeking perfection by optimizing and automating flow – DevOps Webcast Series

February 24, 2020
  Dr Eliyahu Goldratt shares in his book "The Goal", “every organization has at any given point in time at least one constraint which limits the system’s performance relative to its goal”. And as Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, & George Spafford point out in "The Phoenix Project”, one of the…
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UrbanCode Deploy

Modern Mainframe Deployment Strategies

January 29, 2020
Mainframe application development is constantly going through changes, but the tools that support them, like the legacy library managers, are stuck two decades back. There is a need to rethink the entire lifecycle of mainframe application development process in the new CI-CD world. This is not just about plugging tools…
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UrbanCode Deploy

Implementing rolling deployments in UrbanCode Deploy

January 16, 2020
A rolling deployment is appropriate for big applications that are composed of multiple independent nodes. These nodes can be as big as dedicated servers or as small as Docker containers. This deployment technique is relatively complicated in terms of deployment orchestration. UrbanCode Deploy helps you simplify such complicated deployment processes…
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Events and News

UrbanCode Velocity listed in the SD Times Value Stream Management Buyer’s Guide

January 13, 2020
SD Times, the leading software development magazine, declared 2019 the year of the value stream, and they weren't wrong. Value Stream Management was a hot topic at DevOps conferences and in industry media outlets. At UrbanCode, we continued to enhance our own Value Stream Management Tool, Velocity. This month, SD…
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UrbanCode Velocity

Looking Ahead to Value Stream Management in 2020

December 23, 2019
By every measure, 2019 was a breakout year for Value Stream Management – it was the hot request from our customers and a focus of analysts, industry media and conferences. Driven by the need to ensure we’re connecting technology investments to business value, VSM is helping to ensure the promise…
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UrbanCode Velocity

More UrbanCode Velocity Community Edition FAQs

December 10, 2019
UrbanCode Velocity is the free version of our value stream management tool that is perfect for small teams. We answered basic questions on our "Get Started" page, but here are a few more FAQs about Community Edition. What are the system requirements for Community Edition? 4 CPU Cores and 8…
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UrbanCode Deploy

Removing agents from ephemeral environments

December 9, 2019
If you are spinning up and destroying dev and test environments regularly (for example, with Ansible) and deploying applications with UrbanCode Deploy, you may have run into the problem of UrbanCode Deploy agents remaining "connected" and counted when you don't want that behavior. The most straightforward way to avoid orphaned…
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Releases and Updates

Introducing UrbanCode Velocity Community Edition

December 3, 2019
The team at UrbanCode is excited to offer a free version of our value stream management tool - UrbanCode Velocity Community Edition. UrbanCode Velocity Community Edition comes with two concurrent user seats and is great for "two-pizza development teams." Community Edition has all the same value stream management, release orchestration,…
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UrbanCode Build

Refreshed UI for Request Context in UrbanCode Build 6.1.6

December 2, 2019
One of the challenges users face while running complex builds is being able to track how the build workflow is proceeding and how dependencies are getting executed, which dependencies failed and how the overall build got stuck. For this problem, UrbanCode Build has the Request Context view feature, where you…
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Events and News

UrbanCode at Gartner App Solutions and Strategies Summit

November 27, 2019
For three days, December 3 – 5, executives, application development professionals, and leaders will be at Gartner’s Application Solutions and Strategies Summit in Las Vegas, crafting strategies to address legacy and integration issues to deliver effective and engaging customer experiences. The IBM Cloud team, fueled with UrbanCode, the IBM Cloud…
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Events and News

UrbanCode at DevOps World | Jenkins World in Lisbon

November 22, 2019
UrbanCode is heading to Lisbon, Portugal December 3-5, 2019 for the DevOps World | Jenkins World conference! DevOps World brings together DevOps thought leaders, IT execs, and continuous delivery practitioners for 3 days of networking and learning. Connect with us during the show at HCL Software booth #11. There, we…
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Events and News

Share Your UrbanCode Story at Think 2020

November 1, 2019
As a friend of UrbanCode, we'd like to invite you to submit a speaking proposal for the 2020 IBM Think conference in San Francisco.  Whether you have spoken at conferences in the past or offer a "new voice", we hope you will consider sharing your experiences and expertise with others.…
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