Last week we hosted the live webinar ‘Manifest Driven Deployment Automation’. Hundreds of people showed up and asked some great questions! We could tell from the questions that people are really starting to take release automation seriously and thinking about ways to design and build release processes that are reusable and scalable across their entire environment.
The countdown has begun! There is just one week left to sign up for our live webinar ‘Manifest Driven Deployment Automation’. Hundreds of people have already signed up for this highly educational and fascinating webinar which will demonstrate how you can overcome the chaos and complexities of application release and achieve true Zero Touch Deployment™.
Our live Manifest Driven Deployment Automation Webinar is a must see for anyone interested in eliminating the time-consuming challenges and manifold complexities that come hand in hand with most application release processes.
For many, the perpetually increasing volume and frequency of releases, the burden of selecting unique data resources per release and the complications of orchestrating releases on multi-tier applications across hundreds of servers are just part and parcel of the application release process.
We were recently approached by a large retailer who needed help with their application deployments. One of the options that came up was manifest application deployment, whereby the application would be paired with an XML manifest that describes the application resources, payload, and assemblies. Since this manifest is a kept in the companies source control all changes are tracked and version-ed. Various stake-holders of the application are responsible for keeping the manifest intact and valid, including parameters for data file locations, database queries that need to get executed during deployment, and services that need to get installed and updated. An example manifest would look something like this:
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