Case Study: EBSCO Executes Data-Driven Deployments in CA Release Automation for Diverse Software Installation Technologies

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CaseStudy:EBSCOExecutesData-DrivenDeploymentsinCAReleaseAutomationforDiverseSoftwareInstallationTechnologiesMarkLynch- Developer,PlatformEngineering- EBSCOInformationServices@makwise |#CAWorld |[email protected]

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Abstract

EBSCOInformationServicesisadivisionofEBSCOIndustriesInc.,themarketleaderprovidinglibraryresourcesinacademic,medical,library,law,corporateandgovernmentmarkets.Theyhadhundredsofdiverseapplicationdeploymentprocessesthattheywantedtofitintostandardizeddeploymentpipelinesandprovidemanagementinsightintopipelinestatus,success/failureratesandvelocity.Inaddition,theywantedtobeabletodothiswithouteveryonehavingdeepexpertiseintothereleaseautomationtool.ThissessionwillcoverhowCAReleaseAutomationprovidedtheframeworkforEBSCOtodevelopadata-drivendeploymentapproachthatmadeiteasytoleveragetheexistingskillsoftheiroperationsengineersandtobringmanyoftheirexistingdeploymentprocessesonboard.EBSCOwilloutlinetheessenceoftheircomponentialapproachfordeploymentsandthestep-by-stepprocessesthattranspireduringdeployments.Ultimately,EBSCOhasbeenabletocapturebetterdataondeployments,targetautomationeffortsmoreeffectivelyandmoreeasilyintegratenewautomationwithsimpleupdatestothedeploymentprocess.

MarkLynchEBSCOInformationServicesDeveloper,PlatformEngineering


Agenda

INTRODUCTION

DEPLOYMENTDIVERSITY

Q&A

DATA-DRIVENAPPROACH

WHAT’STHEDATADRIVING?

WHAT’SNEXT

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IntroductionEBSCOInformationServices


OrganizationalTrajectory

SilosandWaterfall

Silos.SomeWaterfall.SomeAgile.

LeanandScaledAgileFramework(SAFe) WATERFALLTOSAFe


ContinuousDeliveryasPartofSAFe 4.0

IT’SHARDTOBELEANANDSAFe WITHOUTCD

StandardizationofdeploymentsacrosstheSDLC

Enterpriselevelviewsintostatusofdeployments

No-touchautomateddeployments


ENTERCAReleaseAutomation§ Standarddeploymentworkflows§ End-to-endpipelineviewofdeployments§ Governanceandcontrols§ Full,zero-touchautomation



TheChallengeFromManagement

§ BringexistingapplicationdeploymentsintoCAReleaseAutomationwithminimalre-engineering

§ Acceptthatexistingdeploymentsarelargelymanual

§ Generatedatatoidentifyhighvalueautomationtargets

§ EmpowerDevelopersandDevOpsEngineerstoautomateiteratively


OurTask

APLATFORMFORTRANSITIONINGTOCONTINUOUSDELIVERY

Beginstandardizationbygettingalldeployments“into”CAReleaseAutomation

Gatherdeploymentdatainamoresystematicmannerthanpreviously

Identifyhighvaluetargetsfordeploymentautomationusinggathereddata


DiversityofDeployments

§ Proliferationofinstallationtechnologiesandprocesses

§ Evolutionoftechnologies

CHALLENGESOFLONGTERMGROWTH


WhyaData-DrivenApproach?

EMPOWERMENT

MinimalsetofCAReleaseAutomationtemplatestosupportandmaintainformanydifferentapplication

deployments

ShallowCAReleaseAutomationlearningcurveforDevelopersandDevOpsEngineers

DevelopersandDevOpsEngineersempoweredtoautomateusing

existingskills


HowDidWeAccomplishOurData-DrivenApproach

§ Firstdeploymentarchitecture:SingleServer

§ 2CAReleaseAutomationtemplates– 1fordeploymenttoLinuxservers– 1fordeploymenttoWindowsservers

§ 1DeploymentZipfileperapplication

XMLANDWRAPPERSCRIPTS


What’saDeploymentZipFile?

ASINGLEINPUTTODEPLOYMENTPLANCREATION

Installersdirectory

Wrappersdirectory

Deployment.xmlfile


Deployment.xmlFile




DeploymentPlanCreation

Choosetemplate(1of2options)tocreatedeploymentplanfrom

WhenpromptedbyCARAenterURLtopublisheddeployment.zip file

Rundeploymentto“first”targetenvironment

NEWDEPLOYMENTPLANFOREACHAPPLICATION

VERSIONDEPLOYEDWITHCARELEASEAUTOMATION

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CHOOSETHEAPPROPRIATETEMPLATE



ENTERURLTOPUBLISHEDDEPLOYMENTZIPFILE


DeploymentCreation

CREATEDEPLOYMENTFORFIRSTTARGETENVIRONMENT


RunDeployment

ENTERURLTOPUBLISHED

DEPLOYMENTZIPFILE


IterativeAutomation

§ helloworld_2.0.6.xml

§ Installers– installer.ps1

§ Wrappers– Hello.ps1– Goodbye.ps1– OneTimePreTasks.ps1– OneTimePostTasks.ps1

TargetAutomationEffortsandIterate


SoWhat’stheDataDriving?

CARELEASEAUTOMATIONDISTRIBUTES.WEUNPACK.



THENWEREADANDACT



THAT’SABOUTITFOR“ONCEPERENVIRONMENT”

STEPS



ALITTLEMORETOTHE“PERDEPLOYMENTMACHINE”STEP


ContinuousSearchforthe‘Next’Automation

AutomatecreationofCAReleaseAutomationenvironments1

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HookintoCItoautomaticallycreatedeploymentplansanddeployto“first”environment

CreateCAReleaseAutomationapplicationandtemplatesformulti-tieredapplicationdeployments

CreateCAReleaseAutomationapplicationandtemplatesforblue/greendeployments


Experiencesü Itwasnecessarytobuild

errorhandlingintoCARAflows.

ü ItwasnecessarytobuildinretrylogicaroundRESTcallactions.

ü Somehandholdingearlyonhelpsalotwithadoption.

KeyTopicsü Deployment

StandardizationGoal.ü CurrentDeployment

Diversity.ü EmpoweringUsers.

Findingsü DefiningData-Driven

Contractwaseasy.ü “Programming”CARA

interactionswith3rd partysystemswashard.

ü UsersgraspedrelationshipbetweenconceptsofData-DrivenapproachandDeploymentZipfileeasily.

SummaryAFewWordstoReview


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