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Hands-On Lab: Complement CA Release Automation with a New Continuous Delivery Solution Offering A Visual Approach for Complex Application Releases

Keith Puzey

DevOps: Continuous Delivery

CA Technologies

Sr Principal Engineering Services Architect

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@KeithPuzey

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Abstract

Curious about the buzz around the new Continuous Delivery Solution announced at CA World? See how this new solution is providing a visual approach to plan, coordinate, orchestrate, track, and optimize application releases. Experience the ultimate control of, and insight into, content for multiple applications along your extensive, heterogeneous release pipeline and learn how its sophisticated capabilities compliment CA Release Automation.

Keith Puzey

CA Technologies

Senior Principal Engineering Services Architect


Agenda

SOLUTION OVERVIEW

RELEASE MANAGEMENT

RELEASE DASHBOARD

HANDS ON LAB

Q AND A


VALUE DRIVERS

EASY ADOPTION

Deliver Rapid Time-to-Value product

RELEASE OPTIMIZATION

Reduce errors and Improve efficiency

RELEASE ORCHESTRATION

Manage and Plan complex releases

Release ControlDesign and execute releases considering

dependencies and priorities

Pluggable Architecture Allow users to create custom integrations

and reports

Data AnalyticsPredictive approach to avoid failures

Full VisibilitySee everything related to content

OOTB PluginsProvide integration with 3rd parties

Intuitive workflow Emphasis on ease of use

Strategic- what is does Investment ThemesSolution OverviewRelease Planning and Pipeline Management


Planned Benefits• Full visibility on release structure

and progress

• Easy to pinpoint errors and delegate

solution to relevant stakeholders

• Pluggable architecture allows users

to build their own custom tasks and

integrations

• Release templates allow reusability

of release model

Pain• Every delivery of code is a release. This

increases the number of releases and

makes it hard to track the content

across the environments.

• Several applications and teams can be

involved in a release.

• Predefined set of environments is

required (Dev > Prod), with a different

workflow each.

• Approvals are sometimes needed

before deployment is granted

Planned Solution• The content of a release is part of the

release definition. Allows visibility of

content across environments (reports

and widgets).

• Multi-application releases, with

dynamic teams.

• Design the phase of the release with

the relevant workflow for each phase.

• Do not promote to next phase until all

approvals are complete

Release ManagementDesign Complex Releases


Release Execution


Planned Benefits

•Full visibility of releases and environment state•Simplify investigation upon

errors•Optimize Releases

Pain•Different personas are looking

for different types of information

•With many releases running in parallel , it is difficult to see status, errors and progress

•Need to log into different products to understand full picture

Planned Solution•Customizable dashboard

allows each user to build their own portal with custom widgets and filters

•Widgets providing runtime release data

•All data from 3rd parties is visible in a single place

Release DashboardFull Visibility of your releases


Release Dashboard

Hands on Lab


Hands on Lab overview

Release Team Member– Needs to be able to construct an Application Release containing

multiple applications across Release Automation

– The Release needs to include manual tasks

– Release team need to be able to schedule deployments across environments and see any maintenance windows

Application Owner– Needs to be able to view how Releases are progressing

– Requires a dashboard view of Application releases

User Personas


Getting Started

Launch Chrome browser

Select the link “CA Release Planning” from the browser favourites link

Login as:– Username = [email protected]

– Password = 1234

Logging in to the UI

mailto:[email protected]


Configure Release Automation Integration

Click on the “Administration” tab and select “Endpoints”

Click “Add Endpoint”


Add Endpoint

– Name

RA Server – Lab

– Description

– CA World Lab

– Endpoint type

Release Automation

– Host Port

127.0.0.1 9090

– Username Password

superuser suser

– Click “Add”

Enter the following “End Point” Details


Application and Environments

Click on the Administration tab

Select the option “Application and Environments”


Importing Applications

Click on “Add External Applications” to define the Release Automation Server to be used for the Import

Select the Endpoint “RA Server – Lab”

Click Import


Importing Applications - Contd

Release Automation Applications and Environments are imported and made available.


Maintenance Windows

Click on the administration link and select Maintenance Windows

Click New Window to create a new window

Creating a Maintenance Window


Maintenance Windows - Contd

Use the following details for creating a Maintenance window for Thanksgiving– Name – Thanks Giving

– Description – Black Friday

– Environments – DEV (Finance Backend)

DEV (Finance App)

– Time Frame – November 19th thru

November 30th

Creating a Maintenance Window


Creating a Release

Releases are the core of CA Release Pipeline Manager.

Releases are the main, high-level product entities that consist of workflows for the deployment of multiple applications.

Click on the “Releases” tab

Click on “New Release” button


Creating a Release - Continued

Complete the following sections– Release Name

– Version

– Description

– In the Applications List select:

Finance App

Finance Backend

– Owners

[email protected]

Click Save



Creating a Release – Adding Version number

Set the Versions for the relevant applications by clicking on the “Set Version” field and entering the Version number.

Click the Tick icon to save the version number update.


Creating a Release – Adding Application content

Content can be added to the applications by clicking on the “Add Content”.

Click the Tick icon to save the content update.


What is a Phase

Phases are organized collections of release deployment steps. Phases provide a global environment view for all application activities.

A typical release has development, QA, and production phases that consist of the steps necessary to deploy applications.

Click on the Create Phase Icon


Creating a Phase

Complete the following sections– Phase Name - Development

– Owners – Click to add

[email protected]

– Set Phase to Automatic

– Set the From today To November 27th

– Description

– In the Environments List select:

Dev (Finance Backend)

Dev (Finance App)

Click Save



Creating a Task

Tasks are specific units of work that represent activity workflows in a release.

You add tasks to phases in a specific order to piece together your release pipeline workflow.

Tasks can be Manual, such as a change request approval. Tasks can enable the automated execution of integrated product activities like the run of a CA Release Automation deployment plan


Creating Tasks

Click on the Create a task Icon


Creating a task - Manual

Enter a Task Name and Description

Assign the owner to [email protected]

Set the task type to “Manual”

Click “Save”



Creating Tasks

We now have a single manual task in our Development Phase

Click on “Create Task” to create another task


Creating a task - Automatic



Set the task type to “Run Deployment”

Select the “Endpoint Type” to “RA Server –Lab”

Select the Application “Finance Backend” in the Content Panel



Creating a task – Automatic Continued Enter the following details for the RA deployment to be called:

– Application

Finance Backend

– Deployment Plan

Deploy Finance Backend

– Build

3

– Project

Sprint1

– Environment

Dev

Click Save


Creating Tasks

We now have two tasks in our Development Phase

Click on “Create Task” to create another task


Creating a task - Automatic



Set the task type to “Run Deployment”

Select the “Endpoint type” to “RA Server –Lab”

Select the Application “Finance App” in the Content Panel



Creating a task – Automatic Continued Enter the following details for the RA deployment to be called:

– Application

Finance App

– Deployment Plan

Deploy Finance

– Build

1

– Project

Sprint2

– Environment

Dev

Click Save


Duplicating a Phase

We now have a simple Phase deploying multiple applications which could be in separate Release Automation instances

We will now duplicate the phase

Click on the icon in the top right hand corner of the phase and select Duplicate Phase

Enter a new phase name– QA


Duplicating a Task

Modify the Phase date range

Remove the Dev environments by clicking on the X next to each environment

Add the QA environments for– Finance App

– Finance Backend


Editing Tasks

The newly duplicated phase can be edited to update / disable and delete tasks.


Running a Phase

Click on the arrow in yellow to start running the Development Phase


Interacting with Manual Tasks

Select the action icon in the bottom right hand corner of the manual task

Select the option “Done”

The manual task is marked as “Done”


Automated Tasks

The Manual task is complete

Automatically the next task is started

Deployment starts in Release Automation


Automatic Promotion

When a Phase is completed if the next phase is automatic it will automatically start


Activity Panel

The activity panel shows all events in relation to the release

The “Filter by Selection” will filter the view to show events for the selected task

Activities can also be filtered by severity


Release Automation

Click on the “CA Release Automation” link

Login as :– User = superuser

– Password = suser

Click on the “Deployment Overview tab”


Dashboards

In The CA Project SNOW UI

Click on the Dashboard link in the top left hand corner

The My To-Do List shows any manual tasks pending for the logged in user

Click on the Pending Task


Working with Manual Task

Click on the Manual task and select Done to complete the manual step


Completing a Release

Click on the Thumbs up icon to mark the release as complete


Customising Dashboards

Click on the Dashboard Link

Create a new Dashboard Tab by clicking on the + Sign

Name the Dashboard and click Save


Dashboard reports and widgets

The left hand panel contains the reports and widgets

Reports– Applications

– Release Productivity

– Sample Reports

– Application Report

Widgets– Release Cycle Time

– My To-Do’s

– Phase Idle Time

– Slow Tasks


Customising Dashboards

The left hand panel contains the reports and widgets

Double click on the following Widgets / Report:– Widget

Cycle Time

My To-Do’s

– Report

Release Productivity


Release Overview

Click on the Release tab

List all running and completed releases


Calendar View

Click on the Calendar Link to view the Release overview and the Maintenance Windows


Application Pipeline Report

Click on the Reports link

Select the following two applications– Finance App

– Finance Backend

Click Add Selected


Application Pipeline Report

The report shows which releases have been deployed to the various environments including the version number and any release content


Insight into the deployment of all release content

• Define content for a release that could span multiple teams and multiple applications

• Define deployment order and dependencies between applications

• Configure approvals across applications and phases

• Orchestration collaboration between all release deployment stakeholders

• Configure a clear promotion path using global environments

• Respond to release status in real time to ensure success

Summary


Recommended Sessions

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Software Development Kit (SDK)

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New Customer-Facing Application 11/19/2015 at 4:30 pm

DO4T33TTech Talk: Evolve from Continuous Integration to

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Must See Demos

CA Release Automation


Theater 4

CA Release Pipeline ManagerTheater 4

CA RA Rapid Dev. Kit, SDKCA Release Automation

Theater 4

Integrations


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Follow On Conversations At…

Smart Bar

CA Release Pipeline Manager

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Tech Talks


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Q & A


For More Information

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