Continuous Delivery - Best Practices

for Adoption of Continuous Delivery

IBM Webinar

Michael Elder, IBM Senior Technical Staff Member

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Agenda

• What’s driving companies to adopt Continuous Delivery?

• What disciplines are required to implement Continuous

Delivery in my business?

• 12 Concrete Steps to Better DevOps

• How can IBM help me reach my goals?

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Agenda

• What’s driving companies to adopt Continuous Delivery?

• What disciplines are required to implement Continuous

Delivery in my business?

• 12 Concrete Steps to Better DevOps

• How can IBM help me reach my goals?

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 Market shifts are fundamentally changing the way businesses
approach software driven innovation
Macro Business Environment
Increasing regulatory environments drive
the need to reduce risk
Empowered Users Multi-sourcing
Consumerization of IT drives Increasing outsourcing drive
Big Data
the need for apps with high the need for governance
quality customer experience Social Cloud

Intelligent/
Mobile Connected Systems
Technology Trends
Mobile, social, big data, cloud,
intelligent/connected systems
drive the need for agility

1. Clients are trying to rapidly innovate and become agile with systems of engagement
At the same time need to evolve their systems of records and manage regulatory compliance,
reduce costs by outsourcing and provide world class customer experience

2. The above factors have resulted in shift in purchase dynamics

Developers influencing LOB buyers for entire delivery stack (cloud, mobile, middleware, tools)

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High performing teams adopt DevOps

Reference: 2013 State of DevOps Report by PuppetLabs

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A lack of continuous delivery impacts the entire business

CHALLENGES
CHALLENGES

Costly, error prone manual Slow deployment Risk of instability

and duplicative processes to development and test due to managing
delay innovation and environments leave teams multiple configurations
impact competiveness waiting and unproductive and versions

Line of Software & Operations/

Customers
Business Product Manufacturing &
Development Support

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Accelerate Software Delivery and Reduce Time to Customer Feedback
I need to Development to Operations Lifecycle…
deliver these
features now ..
Analyze Design

Deploy to…
Release Develop
Project Team Project
Artifacts

Test Build

Here’s Deploy
Runtime
I need… our
standard Analyze Define

Retire Create
Here you go…
Environment

Infrastructure Team
Manage Configure

These Deploy

developers are Policies, etc…

going to cause
me downtime ..
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Infrastructure Lifecycle Management… 8
Agile Development Highlights Bottlenecks

Development Operations

Gap
Code &
Business
Tests
Services

Functional Acceptance Production

Testing Testing

Test and Ops teams have increased

pressures to keep up with increased
loads but continue to use waterfall
approaches and traditional tools.
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Agenda

• What’s driving companies to adopt Continuous Delivery?

• What disciplines are required to implement Continuous

Delivery in my business?

• 12 Concrete Steps to Better DevOps

• How can IBM help me reach my goals?

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DevOps - Enterprise capability for continuous service delivery that enables
clients to seize market opportunities and reduce time to customer feedback.

DevOps Lifecycle
Customers Business Owners Development/Test Operations/Production

Plan and Measure Develop and Test Release and Deploy

Monitor and Optimize

Continuous Innovation, Feedback and Improvements

Accelerate Software Delivery

Expanding collaboration to include customers, LOB and others to eliminate organization silos

Balance speed, cost, quality and risk

Automating manual processes across delivery lifecycle to eliminate waste/delays and compliance tracking

Reduce time to customer feedback

Enabling a customer feedback loop for continuous improvement

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Adjusting Delivery Mindset

Infrastructure Developer vs. Operator/Administrator

• Need to bring a software development mindset to the operational areas
• Replicate, where appropriate, standard architecture/development tools and methodologies

Use an Agile approach to delivery of routine tasks

• Continuous, incremental improvements and delivery of new functionality
• Automated unit and integration testing improves operational runtimes

Version management for scripts & source code

• Automation routines and scripts are fundamental to Operations
• Managing Operations routines like source code offers several benefits:
• Central point of truth as routines and environments change
• Backup in case of loss
• Identify possible regressions by comparing with prior versions

Example Managed Assets:

• Perl, Jython, WSADMIN, ANT scripts, Service orchestration routines (opsware, buildforge, etc),

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What is a “Software Defined Environment”?

• A Software Defined Environment captures configuration and

automation to enable repeatable, predictable application
deployments and platform updates

• A simple analogy: Today, you likely capture information about

environments in word documents and spreadsheets; you have
“Spreadsheet Defined Environments”

• With Software Defined Environments, technology like workload

patterns, standard automation, and process orchestration enable
you to treat the total environment like any other deliverable; you
fix and update the environment by updating the artifacts which
define the environment and then applying those changes.

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 Industry norm

DevOps Maturity Model

Plan / Measure Development / Test Release / Deploy Monitor / Optimize

Manage environments
Scaled

Define release with Improve continuously with through automation Automate problem isolation
business objectives development intelligence and issue resolution
Measure to customer value Test Continuously Provide self-service build, Optimize continuously
provision and deploy

Plan and source Deliver and integrate Standardize and automate

Reliable

strategically continuously cross-enterprise Optimize applications

Dashboard portfolio Manage data and virtualize Automate patterns-based Use enterprise issue
measures services for test provision and deploy resolution procedures
Repeatable

Deliver and build with test Plan departmental releases Monitor using business and
Link objectives to releases and automate status end user context
Centralize test management
Measure to project metrics Automated deployment with Centralize event notification
Link lifecycle information standard topologies and incident resolution
Practiced

Manage Lifecycle artifacts Monitor resources

Document objectives locally Plan and manage releases consistently
Schedule SCM integrations
Manage department and automated builds Standardize deployments Collaborate Dev/Ops
resources informally
Test following construction

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Agenda

• What’s driving companies to adopt Continuous Delivery?

• What disciplines are required to implement Continuous

Delivery in my business?

• 12 Concrete Steps to Better DevOps

• How can IBM help me reach my goals?

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12 Steps to Better DevOps – Plan & Measure

• Do your developers and operators communicate the production

realities and the application's requirements?

• Do you version deployment configuration and scripts along with

your source code?

• Do you have patterns for platforms and applications, designed

jointly by development and operations?

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12 Steps to Better DevOps – Release & Deploy

• Can your developers launch and destroy production-like

environments from those patterns?

• Are your patterns based on reusable deployment configuration

scripts?

• Can you deploy an environment (platform and application) in one

step?

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12 Steps to Better DevOps – Development & Test

• Do you deploy your applications daily into production-like

environments and verify them?

• Do you link bugs and work items to changes in the application

and configuration?

• Do you associate tickets for production issues with relevant bugs

opened for development to fix?

• Do you have automated tests to validate your application and

platform function and characteristics?

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12 Steps to Better DevOps – Monitor & Optimize

• Do you monitor software against expectations after deploying

your application?

• Do you have a delivery pipeline exposed through a summary

dashboard to assess delivery velocity?

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 Defining YOUR Continuous Delivery pipeline

Actively manage
Applications and
Environments
through the
delivery process
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Provisioning using a Software Defined Environment

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

class DevopsDeployer
def initialize(build_url, build_id)
@log = Logger.new(LOG_FILE)
@log.level = LOG_LEVEL

@iaas_gateway = IaasGateway.new(HsltProvider.new(),
LOG_FILE, LOG_LEVEL)
@server_instance = nil
.jsp .html
rtc_build_system_provider = RtcBuildSystemProvider.new(
RTC_REPOSITORY_URL, RTC_USER_ID, RTC_PASSWORD_FILE)
@build = rtc_build_system_provider.resolve_build(
build_url, ENV['buildResultUUID'], build_id)
Infrastructure
@build_system_gateway = BuildSystemGateway.new(
.java
rtc_build_system_provider, LOG_FILE, LOG_LEVEL)
end as Code
def add_build_stamp
template_file = WEB_APP_ROOT +
"/app/templates/pages/page.html"
@log.info "Adding build ID stamp #{@build.id} to \
.sh
#{template_file}" chef
recipes
# Read in the file's contents as a string, replace
# the build_id, then overwrite the original contents
# of the file
text = File.read(template_file)
new_text = text.gsub(/\{\{ build_id \}\}/,
Source Artifacts
"<a href=\"#{@build.uri}\">#{@build.id}</a>")
File.open(template_file, "w") { |file|
file.puts new_text
}
end
Source Control
# ...
Management

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Delivery Pipeline Stage

Build,
Package,
& Unit Test
.jsp .html Application
Binaries &
Platform Deploy
Configuration
.jav
a

.sh chef
recipes
Environment
Deployable Artifacts Running System
Source Artifacts
Source Control Library
Management

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Environment Configuration Management

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Configuration Management - Snapshots uDeploy

Creating a Snapshot Snapshot Deployment

Snapshot ENV
Component Versions Snapshot

3 3 2 WEB HOST
Web 1 2 3 3

2 2 1
Mid. Code 1 2 3 2
MID HOST
Mid. Config 1 2 3 3 3 3 1

DB 1 2 3 1 1 X 1 DB HOST

Contents of environments that pass tests

• contain deployable version and configuration
Deployments are based on deltas
They help with:
 Automation, Audit, and Visibility

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Inventory of Application Components per Environment

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Agenda

• What’s driving companies to adopt Continuous Delivery?

• What disciplines are required to implement Continuous

Delivery in my business?

• Review 12 Steps to Better DevOps

• How can IBM help me reach my goals?

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 DevOps Tool Chain
Plan and Measure Release and Deploy
Rational Focal Point
Rational Requirements Composer
SmartCloud Orchestrator
IBM Pure Application System
Openstack
Line of
Business

Jenkins uBuild
Rational Build Forge

Rational Quality Manager SmartCloud Control Desk

Rational Team Concert
Rational Test Workbench
Rational Test Virtualization Server

SmartCloud Application Performance Management

Develop and Test Monitor and Optimize

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UrbanCode complements IBM’s DevOps solution by enabling continuous software
release and deployment via application release automation (ARA)

Application Blueprint
UrbanCode products help clients:
• Reduce errors: Automated software release and
deployment

• Improve productivity: Push-button deployments

for developer and operations
Versioned
Artifacts
• Faster time-to-market: Automated release and
deployment with built-in best practices provides Artifacts Artifacts Artifacts

• Compliance and auditability: Enforced Security Development

Release
QA
Release
Product
Release
and traceability
Execute Against Execute Against Execute Against

Development QA Production
Environment Environment Environment

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IBM UrbanCode Deploy – Manage Applications, Components, and Environments

• Automate deployment of applications across dev, test, and production

environments
• Extending platform to be aware of workload patterns to enable a
combination of platform and application deployment

Deployment

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 IBM UrbanCode Release – Release planning and coordination

Focused on streamlining large monthly or quarterly releases that

take hours/days and require dozens or that hundreds of people to
get on a call

Enables incremental adoption towards complete automation

• Plan the release day

• Execute the release
• Communicate what’s going on
• Allocate environments to releases
• Tie release back to development
• Builds on automation and
configuration in UrbanCode Deploy

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Summary

• Continuous Delivery is about a set of practices that enable

your company to be more competitive

• There is no single magic bullet, but there are best

practices to help you achieve your goals

• IBM provides a rich portfolio of offerings to help you on the

journey to being more responsive and meaningful to your
end users

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