COMP-14: Automating your deployments using ANT

Gary S ClinkBusiness Consultant

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P R E F A C E

Introduction

P R E F A C E

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Agenda

Deployment and the Life-Cycle IT Infrastructure – Planning your Deployments Deployment Components

• Build

• Package

• Deploy

ANT• Overview

• Demonstration

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Requirements Specification

Functional Specification

Technical Specification

Program Specification

Test

Business Objectives

Deploy

Waterfall

Code

Deployment and the Life-Cycle

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Deployment and the Life-Cycle

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Deployment

Deployment and the Life-Cycle

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Deployment and the Life-cycle

Deployment is NOT a mile-stone but a task. Deployment SHOULD NOT take place at the end of a

project but DURING it.

Don’t let deployment be the Achilles’ Heel in your project!

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Agenda

Deployment and the Life-Cycle IT Infrastructure – Planning your Deployments Deployment Components

• Build

• Package

• Deploy

ANT• Overview

• Demonstration

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S

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Configuration Management Database (CMDB)

IncidentManagement

ProblemManagement

ChangeManagement

ConfigurationManagement

ReleaseManagement

Service Support

IT Infrastructure Library - Planning

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i. Plan and oversee rollout of SW and HW

ii. Design procedures for distribution and installation of changes to IT systems

iii. Changes are traceable, secure, authorised, and tested

iv. Communicate with customers

v. Agree content of rollout for the Release

IT Infrastructure Library - Planning

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vi. Release under control of Change and Configuration Management

vii. Copies of software are in DSL* and CMDB**

viii.Hardware changes are secure and traceable

(Continued)

*DSL = Definitive Software Library**CMDB = Configuration Management Database

IT Infrastructure Library - Planning

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dd Gary's Laptop

nbgclink01 :Dell Latitude

C600

sports2000 :Progress OE 10.0B DB (Enterprise)

::Progress OE 10.0B DB (Enterprise)+ Install: = c:\testapp\database

Port:5067

«Progress Licence»

Dev elopment :Progress OE Studio 10.0B

::Progress OE Studio 10.0B- Install: = d:\progress\100b

«Progress App»

Sports2000 :Sports2000

::Sports2000- Install: = c:\sports2000

«Progress Licence»

WebClient :Progress WebClient 10.0B

::Progress WebClient 10.0B- Install: = c:\webClient

Operating Systems::

Windows XP Professional

Installed

«deploy»

Requies

TCP/IP

Installed

Recommendation: Document your Deployments

IT Infrastructure Library - Planning

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Agenda

Deployment and the Life-Cycle IT Infrastructure – Planning your Deployments Deployment Components

• Build

• Package

• Deploy

ANT• Overview

• Demonstration

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Build• Identify items to be compiled to produce runtime

deliverables (e.g. r-code/procedure-libraries). Package

• Identify items to configure into a working system. Deploy

• Validate release package, approve it and deploy to production.

Deployment Components

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Agenda

Deployment and the Life-Cycle IT Infrastructure – Planning your Deployments Deployment Components

• Build

• Package

• Deploy

ANT• Overview

• Demonstration

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Deployment Components - Build

Private• System that an individual developer works against

(Development). Integration

• Code changes promoted into an integration workspace and built together (Test).

QA• Integration Build with goal of handing off the

deliverables to the test team for validation (UAT). Release

• Integration build with goal of being release into production. Must meet test criteria and be signed off for release (Live).©2006 All content is property of Ledbetter & Harp LLC. All rights reserved.

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Identify items to be built Begin the build (execute build scripts) Pipe output to log-file Review build results and address issues (Optional) Use smoke tests to validate core

functionality Label build and versions of source-code

used in build

Deployment Components - Build

Steps to executing a build

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Vertical Markets Customer Versions Localisation Platform Specifics …

Deployment Components - Build

Customised Builds

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Recommendation: Automate your build

Joel Spolsky, Joel On Software

“It’s crucial that everything it takes to make a final build is done by the daily build script. ”

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Recommendation: Run your builds often

Steve McConnell, Rapid Development

“Ensuring that the code base is always compilable and executable avoids running into integration problems at the end of a project. ”

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Agenda

Deployment and the Life-Cycle IT Infrastructure – Planning your Deployments Deployment Components

• Build

• Package

• Deploy

ANT• Overview

• Demonstration

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Add any additional items necessary for package (e.g. scripts, documents, help, configurations, etc)

Package items (e.g. zip, tar) Generate Release Note Migrate to appropriate region for testing

Deployment Components - Package

Version control deliverables

Commercial

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Agenda

Deployment and the Life-Cycle IT Infrastructure – Planning your Deployments Deployment Components

• Build

• Package

• Deploy

ANT• Overview

• Demonstration

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Deployment Components - Deploy

Finalise Release Notes Submit Change Request to modify

production baseline Review and Authorise release Communicate release date and contents to

stakeholders and support staff

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Roll-out plan (who, what, where, when, how) Contingency planning (roll-back) Communication

It’s more than just technology!

Deployment Components - Package

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Agenda

Deployment and the Life-Cycle IT Infrastructure – Planning your Deployments Deployment Components

• Build

• Package

• Deploy

ANT• Overview

• Demonstration

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Free & open-source (ant.apache.org) Written in Java – platform independent Scripts written in XML – can use any editor Performs many tasks (e.g. compile, copy, run

test scripts, CVS, …)

ANT - Overview

Apache Ant.

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Extension to ANT for OpenEdge Created by Gilles Querret

(Phenix Engineering – France) Allows…

• Run • Compile• Schema management• Procedure-Library• …

ANT - Overview

Progress Compile Tool (PCT)

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Agenda

Deployment and the Life-Cycle IT Infrastructure – Planning your Deployments Deployment Components

• Build

• Package

• Deploy

ANT• Overview

• Demonstration

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<project name=“myProject” default=“init”> <description>Example project</description>

<!-- set global properties for this build --> <property name=“build” location=“build”/>

<target name=“init”>

<!–- create a directory --> <mkdir dir=“${build}”/> </target>

</project>

Sample: ANT Script

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In Summary

Plan your Deployments Implement nightly builds Automate as much as

possible Implement ANT Migrate to OpenEdge

Architect

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Education / Documentation References

ANT http://ant.apache.org PCT http://pct.sourceforge.net ITIL http://www.itil.co.uk ITIL http://www/itil-itsm-world.com ANT/Eclipse Integration

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wsad512/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/gettingStarted/qs-81_basics.htm

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Questions?

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Thank you foryour time

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