Automating the JEE deployment process
- 11. Configuring the Deployment Categories is
an Involved Process
Installing the Application
Configuring Resources
Configuring Middleware Repeating the same
Components Steps across
environments
Starting / Stopping
Components
Maintaining the Order
- 16. Suggest Deployment steps based on different
Easy to write / plugin deployment scripts
Deployment categories
Suggest Deployment steps based on different
Deployment categories
Standard deployment steps should be overridable
- 18. Reasons for Increase in Workload
Complexity is
Little or no Tooling is
Often
Automation limited
ignored
- 21. Large Number of Specialized Staff Required
for Deployment and Script Writing
- 24. Should have the capability to use separate configuration
files for DTAP environments
- 30. Should show the current state of the deployment
Preview of changes
Should maintain a history of deployment changes
Log all changes
- 31. Should show the current state of the deployment
Version the configuration changes in source control
Transaction Boundries and Rollback ???