VERIFY Conference - GT12: Continuous Deployment: From Development to Production

GT12: Continuous Deployment: From Development to Production - Paul Duvall, Stelligent

Performing daily or continuous builds is essential for ensuring working software. Yet, what if you could extend this into the entire deployment process so that deployment is the “click of a button”? In “Continuous Deployment: From Development to Production”, Paul Duvall demonstrates how to automate the steps in the deployment process so that authorized users can move deployment artifacts from development to QA, QA to Staging and Staging to Production with minimal effort and reduced errors.

Paul will show how to extend the CruiseControl Continuous Integration server along with some clever Ant build scripting to:

* Baseline the target environment
* Modify the version
* Build (including database integration) the software
* Deploy to application server (e.g. Tomcat)
* Run Automated Tests in target environment
* Label Deployment Artifacts
* Notify interested parties via Email or website

Paul will also cover key Continuous Integration practices such as:

* Produce a Clean Environment
* Centralize Software Assets
* Create a Consistent Directory Structure
* Separate Build Scripts from your IDE
* Single Command Build
* Build for any Environment
* Automate Database Integration
* Automate Functional Tests
* Label a Repository’s Assets
* Label Each Build

Last Updated ( Friday, 06 July 2007 )