In part 1 of this series, I introduced the Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline for the Manatee Tracking application and how we use this pipeline to deliver software from checkin to production. In this article I will take an in-depth look at the CD pipeline. A list of topics for each of the articles is summarized Read more…
We help companies deliver software reliably and repeatedly using Continuous Delivery in the Cloud. With Continuous Delivery (CD), teams can deliver new versions of software to production by flattening the software delivery process and decreasing the cycle time between an idea and usable software through the automation of the entire delivery system: build, deployment, test, Read more…
A Case Study on applying 100% automation to the Cloud to deliver software to users as often and as quickly as necessary. Read more…
DevOps in the Cloud LiveLessons walks viewers through the process of putting together a complete continuous delivery platform for a working software application written in Ruby on Rails along with examples in other development platforms such as Grails and Java on the companion website. These applications are deployed to Amazon Web Services (AWS), which is Read more…
This 3-hour online course is ideal for Developers or Sys Admins who want to know how to script a complete Continuous Delivery platform in the Cloud using Jenkins, AWS and Puppet. By the end of the course, you will have a working Continuous Integration system on AWS with all of the source code. The course Read more…
While we often employ a similar process when automating other parts of a software delivery system (build, deployment, database, etc.), in this article, I’m focusing on automating infrastructures. Typically, we go through a 5-step process toward automating environments that will be used as part of a Continuous Delivery pipeline. They are: document, test, script, version Read more…
NetFlix has written a lot about how they are effectively using Amazon Web Services to operate their infrastructure. I've found their development and use of the Chaos Monkey (and has even proposed its vision of a "Simian Army") to be particularly interesting. The basic premise is that all systems fail eventually so the Chaos Monkey Read more…
A list of tools and tool types for Continuous Delivery in the Cloud for Java, .NET and Ruby Read more…
Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This cloud model promotes availability and is composed of essential characteristics, deployment models, and Read more…
The Integrate Button website (from Paul Duvall’s book on Continuous Integration) recently published a screencast on using the Hudson Continuous Integration server – along with Subversion, Ant, HSQL and other tools. Click the image below to get started. The screencast demonstrates the following steps: Checkout source files from the Subversion repository – locally Run the Read more…