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Agent-based or Agent-less Release Automation Solution?
Release Automation: Agent v. Agentless Many enterprise software systems can be categorized as either “Agent-based” or “Agent-less”. This blog is going to discuss why any organization would choose to...
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Strategic Tooling & Release Automation
Strategic Tools Prevent Enterprise Automation Many organisations have “strategic” tools intended for large groups of users, designed to standardize and centralize processes, management and enforcement....
View ArticleRelease Engineer to go GA on July 15th, 2014
OpenMake Software drives ARA to the next level with the general availability of Release Engineer, a new and powerful ARA solution designed for the enterprise. Delivers a scalable ARA solution that...
View ArticleContinuous Delivery Vs. ARA
Continuous Delivery (CD) is a process, not a solution. Continuous Delivery is an extension of Continuous Integration. When a software update is saved to the version repository, the Continuous...
View Article64 bit Release Engineer
100% 64 bit Release Engineer is now available from http://www.openmakesoftware.com/build-management/release-management This version requires a 64 bit Windows machine, Java 1.7 64 bit or Java 1.8 64...
View ArticleWhat is a component?
I view components as a set of binaries, .exes and .dlls or ,jars that make up a runnable part of an application. Components can consume other components. For example, the date time component can...
View ArticleRelease Engineer now includes a built-in command line interrupter
In our latest version of Release Engineer, we have included a built-in command line interpreter. This allows you to write portable, or platform independent, deployment flows. For example, your...
View ArticleApplication Packaging
We have defined that components are made up of runnable binaries. And that components can depend upon each other. Applications depend upon components as well. You can think of components being the...
View ArticleRelease Packaging
Just as Applications package together components. Releases package together Applications. This packaging enables you to release multiple applications together out to an environment. Applications...
View ArticlePostgresql Hot Standby for Windows
To get started you need two machines that are the same architecture, ie 64 bit, with the same version of Postgres installed, including same Postgres architecture. 1. On Master – In pgAdmin run: CREATE...
View Articlewsadmin get cell name
To get a cell name from Websphere use the following code: cells = AdminConfig.list("Cell" ) cells = wsadminToList(cells) cellName = cells[0].split('(')[0] AdminConfig.list will return all defined...
View ArticleSteps to deploy an ear file to Websphere Cluster
Here are the steps I use to deploy an Application to a Websphere Cluster. Get a list the Servers that belong to the Cluster Loop through the list of Servers in the Cluster Stop the App on each server...
View Articlewsadmin – How to get a list of servers in a cluster
clusterId=AdminConfig.getid("/ServerCluster:"+clusterName) clusterMembers=AdminConfig.list('ClusterMember', clusterId) clusterMembers = wsadminToList(clusterMembers) 1. Get the cluster id based on the...
View ArticleRelease Engineer Scales CD integrated into Jenkins
I’ve had several people ask me how Release Engineer scales to support a deployment that requires thousands of endpoints. So we did some heavy stress testing to really get the numbers down. Check out...
View Article7.6 Sneak Peak – RE and Ansible Galaxy roles
OpenMake Release Engineer 7.6 will include the ability to integrate Ansible Galaxy roles into your application release automation logic. This ability allows you to develop a deployment workflow that...
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Use Deployment Version Control to achieve incremental Continuous Deployments
Deployment Version Control, Critical to Deployment Automation for Continuous Delivery In order to achieve Continuous Delivery, the Continuous Deployment step of the CD process must have the...
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Component packaging
Component Packaging for easy software deployment Release Engineer helps you with Component Packaging Component packaging is the lowest level of assembling together the artifacts to be used in your...
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