Vital for Technology Professionals: a Guide to Zero Touch Deployment
Read our article exploring the reality of zero touch deployments and the recent trend of technology professionals embracing this emergent vision.
Nolio CTO & Co-Founder Alon Eizenman and CM Crossroads Consultant and Editor-in-Chief Bob Aiello are both experts in information technology and systems engineering. Utilizing their considerable expertise, they penned the article ‘Automating Release and Deployment – ALM & ITIL/ITSM‘, which guides technology professionals through the application lifecycle management journey and leads them to the ultimate goal of fully automated releases.
Fully automated application deployments promise manifold benefits and possibilities for IT operations teams in any organization. Many technology professionals thrive on creating complex applications but dread large scale application deployments – which usually portend numerous problems, laborious challenges, and evenings and weekends lost to work. This leads to a situation which is frustrating for IT operations staff, and expensive and inefficient for the organization.
Zero Touch Deployment overcomes these significant challenges and disadvantages, enabling applications to be smoothly and seamlessly deployed automatically. Alon Eizenman and Bob Aiello’s article guides organizations on the best way to implement automatic deployment, covering pertinent issues including: build tools (Ant, Maven and Make), components, and builds and scripting. The article also studies deployment driven developments, development benefits and offers advice on how deployments can be tamed.
“Your best approach is to start small and iteratively develop your automation based upon a checklist. Make sure that you consider the big picture throughout this effort and by all means adopt a comprehensive deployment framework to help you manage the complexities inherent in this effort. Your reward will be improved traceability and transparency supporting IT Governance and compliance. You will also see your team better able to support rapid iterative development along with improved quality and productivity.”
‘Automating Release and Deployment – ALM & ITIL/ITSM’, Alon Eizenman and Bob Aiello
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