deliver higher quality software faster with dev and test in the cloud
DESCRIPTION
Betsy Zikakis, VP Marketing at RightScale, led this session at the RightScale User Conference 2010 in Santa Clara. Session Abstract: Cloud-based development and testing can deliver higher quality software to your users faster. By reducing provisioning time from weeks to minutes, and by eliminating upfront capital expenses, you can now afford to give every developer and tester access to dedicated resources on demand. And as a cloud migration strategy, companies are finding it easier to get company adoption by starting with development and testing in the cloud. In this session, we'll demonstrate how your IT or DevOps group can create a self-service portal for developers and testers to provision their own testing resources as needed. You can view the video of this presentation at http://www.vimeo.com/17647600.TRANSCRIPT
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Dev & Test in the Cloud
Betsy Zikakis, Vice President
Rock Rocaberte, Professional Services
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Why Dev & Test?
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Backup & Recovery
Test & Dev
Transaction Processing
Business Intelligence
Grid Computing
Mobile Services
Scalable Web Site
Today
Next Year
• Dev & Test a top choice to move to the cloud
• Provides low barrier to entry for cloud computing
• Highly scalable resources required for test• 30% to 50% of all servers
dedicated to test*
• Most test servers run at less than 10% utilization*
* IBM Research
• Solve real challenges
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Why Dev & Test?
• Dev & Test a top choice to move to the cloud
• Provides low barrier to entry for cloud computing
• Highly scalable resources required for test• 30% to 50% of all servers
dedicated to test*
• Most test servers run at less than 10% utilization*
* IBM Research
• Solve real challenges
“It makes a great deal of sense to … start with dev and test, and go from there. Don’t tell the customer to immediately migrate everything to, and run everything on, the cloud. Which would of course be insane. On the contrary recommend a low barrier to entry approach. Production is an end state where the customer finally just says: ‘remind me again why we aren’t using this flexible infrastructure as a production environment?’”
James Governor, Red Monk
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Market Trends
• Shorter release cycles• More agile, streamlined product development• Geographically distributed workforces• Outsourced teams and team members
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Lifecycle Challenges
• Limited, shared resources
• Lead time for procuring and provisioning equipment
• Maintaining consistent environments throughout the lifecycle
• Maintaining multiple environments in parallel
• Distributed teams and team members
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Development and Test in a RightScale Managed Cloud
More creativity
Improved quality
Less rework
Faster time to customer
Available Resources
Provisioning and Configuration Control
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Available, Easily Provisioned Resources
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Maintain Consistent, Reproducible Environments
More Detail
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• Modular and variable-based
• Built with re-usable scripts
• ServerTemplates and scripts are version controlled
• Deployments* can be archived
RightScale’s ServerTemplate Methodology
* Logical groupings of servers.
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Consistent, Reusable Configurations
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RightScale Development & Test Solution Pack
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Easily Integrated with Existing Solutions
Continuous Integration
Server
Regression TestingServer
Source ControlServer
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DEMO
• Demo – Launch a Dev Server in the Cloud
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RightScale Development and Test Solution
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Read More Online
and
Download the Whitepaperhttp://www.rightscale.com/devtest
For more information:www.rightscale.com/conference or [email protected]
Q&A - Getting Started
Migrating to the Cloud Starts WithDevelopment and Test
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Thank You!
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