Deployment strategies

Deployment

With Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery being a best practice nowadays, you will encounter certain choices you will have to make when implementing it. One of those choices is deployment! Deployment sounds like an easy thing but can be quite complex. Usually it is dropping a war somewhere or starting a container but what if you already have a version running and you want to create zero downtime for your Continue ReadingDeployment strategies

Continuous Discussions: Orchestrating Enterprise Software Development Testing

A while back I was asked by the people from Electric Cloud if I would be interested in participating in a panel to talk about Orchestrating Enterprise Software Development as a part of their Continuous Discussions series. I thought it was a very cool idea and of course said yes. The questions we talked about where things like What does your test matrix look like? How do you define the Continue ReadingContinuous Discussions: Orchestrating Enterprise Software Development Testing

OFM 12C: Running WLST scripts in your build pipeline using the weblogic-maven-plugin

CI

When you are building and deploying servicebus or soa composites to the server, you will have the certain dependencies with the server such as datasources or JMS resources. Those resources must be there if you want to deploy. A best practice is of course to script these. You can use WLST to run .py script which create your resources. The only problem is you want to know for sure the Continue ReadingOFM 12C: Running WLST scripts in your build pipeline using the weblogic-maven-plugin