https://www.craigpardey.com/tags/continuous-deployment/ Recent content in Continuous Deployment on Craig Pardey Hugo en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.craigpardey.com/post/2012-02-11-controltier-initial-impressions/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.craigpardey.com/post/2012-02-11-controltier-initial-impressions/ <p>For the last 2 months, we&rsquo;ve been using <a href="http://controltier.org">ControlTier</a> to automate deployments to our integration and QA environments.  Our deployment is a little more complicated that most Java applications because it runs on a pseudo-grid.  That is, there are 2 clustered JBoss servers, a database server, and 4+ Linux servers that each run about 8 Java processes.</p> <p>I was able to get ControlTier up and running in a few days, and defining the jobs was relatively straightforward.</p> https://www.craigpardey.com/post/2011-12-14-continuous-deployment/ Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.craigpardey.com/post/2011-12-14-continuous-deployment/ <p>Automation isn&rsquo;t about quality, it&rsquo;s about scale.  Manual processes don&rsquo;t scale.</p> <p>Each part of your process that you automate gets you one step closer to continuous deployment. For many teams, automation is a Quadrant 4 activity - not urgent, not important - but on my teams it is a Quadrant 2 activity - important but not urgent. We allocate time each iteration to improve our automation because it frees up more time for development.</p>