There’s no doubting the popularity of the DevOps movement these days. We’re seeing it in many of our customers as the need to move faster in their business becomes more important. More often than not, it’s being combined with the move to cloud computing and self-service everything. The traditional application development model with infrastructural and organizational silos is dead….well, almost!
DevOps promotes an open culture of collaboration, merging these silos into central teams with a more agile development methodology. Everything from development to production is automated as much as possible, allowing applications to be continuously developed, built, and released into production. In this environment everything is monitored and measured allowing for faster feedback back into the development cycles, with many incremental changes over short time periods. While the key to success for a DevOps environment is really the work environment itself, we’ve certainly seen some changes to tools that have made such an agile methodology much, much easier.
Many folks connect DevOps with Linux on commodity x86 based systems in the cloud. Not necessarily so! In my latest technical article Automated Application Development and Deployment with DevOps on Oracle Solaris 11, I put a simple application pipeline together to demonstrate a typical DevOps environment on Oracle Solaris 11. In this article, we’ll take a look at Git distributed version control, Apache Maven build automation tool, Jenkins continuous integration server, and Puppet configuration management. I’ll also show some integration with IPS using a Maven IPS plugin to automatically generate new packages that can be quickly deployed on a successful test run.
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