Deployment Automation Tips

Enforce that a Global Process can only be called by another process

Chris Seamons

ISSUE: Micro Focus Deployment Automation allows you to create Global Processes that exist outside of Applications and Components . These processes can be used to create reusable processes that can be used across multiple applications - for example applying…
- 6 months ago
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Deployment Automation - Scheduling and Blackouts

Chris Seamons

Although Micro Focus Deployment Automation is not intended to be a full-on Release Management solution like Micro Focus Release Control , it does have some lightweight features for scheduling and preventing deployments. Not everyone is aware of these…
- 6 months ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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Deployment Automation Data Model

Chris Seamons

Micro Focus Deployment Automation captures, automates and manages a significant amount of information on your DevOps release and deployment processes. For new users it is often difficult to visualise how all of this information comes together. The…
- 6 months ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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Deployment Automation Component Template Examples

Chris Seamons

Micro Focus Deployment Automation is delivered with a large number of " plugins " (85 and counting). These plugins allow you to integrate and model processes for a large number of tools and technologies from Java and .NET web apps to databases, containers…
- 6 months ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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Micro Focus Deployment Automation Plugin Template

MigrationDeletedUser

One of the unique and maybe best features of Micro Focus Deployment Automation is its architecture that allows you the ability to create your "plugins" with limited coding knowledge. In this post we look at an example template that you can use to create…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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DA New Feature: Property Picker

Paul Caruana

The following blog post describes a simple but highly effective enhancement that has been introduced in Deployment Automation 6.2.1. T he new Property Picker feature now available in Deployment Automation 6.2.1. This simple enhancement brings 2…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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UPDATED COURSE: 200 DA FOR RELEASE ENGINEERS

Paul Caruana

Following the release of DA 6.2, 200 DA for Release Engineers has been updated. This course update contains the following additions and benefits: New 6.2 features covered: UI updates including Process Designer Deployment Packages …
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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DA 6.2: Evaluation Tutorial - Deployment Packages

Paul Caruana

A new feature in Deployment Automation 6.2. Deployment Packages allow you to orchestrate a series of Application or Component Deployments within a single Deployment Package process. The attached Evaluation Guide allows you to create a deployment package…
- over 3 years ago
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New in DA 6.1.5: Published Views tutorial

Paul Caruana

DA 6.1.5 includes published views to allow more advanced and flexible reporting on the deployments requests made: Application process (view_app_proc_requests) Component process (view_comp_proc_requests) This guide takes you through installing…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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NEW COURSE: DEPLOYMENT AUTOMATION 320 ADVANCED ADMINISTRATION AND CONFIGURATION

Paul Caruana

Introducing a brand new e-learning course, based on the latest cutting edge technologies in Deployment Automation . The course is recommend for experienced users who have participated in the DA100 and DA120 courses. Course Goal To provide a familiarity…
- over 3 years ago
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DA Black belt certification is now live

Paul Caruana

Do take a look at the new Deployment Automation Certification module and test your knowledge of the building blocks of Deployment Automation. In addition to the White Belt Qualification , and the intermediate level Green Belt Qualification , the advanced…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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Deployment Automation Green Belt Certification is now live

Paul Caruana

Do take a look at the new Deployment Automation Certification module and test your knowledge of the building blocks of Deployment Automation. In addition to the White Belt Qualification , the intermediate level Green Belt Qualification is now available…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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DA: WebServices plugin tutorial

Paul Caruana

Introduction The Web Services plugin allows you to call REST, SOAP and DA Rest services in a modular fashion as a process step. In this tutorial, we will use simple DA REST call to query the DA repository. Implementation The attached…
- over 3 years ago
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DA: Deployment Automation Silk Central Plugin Tutorial

Paul Caruana

Introduction Silk Central is an all-inclusive test management system that facilitates building quality and productivity into the testing process, speeding the delivery of successful enterprise applications. A central repository serves as the foundation…
- over 3 years ago
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DA: Deployment Automation Artifactory Tutorial

Paul Caruana

Introduction Artifactory is a Universal Repository Manager supporting all major packaging formats, build tools and CI servers. Deployment Automation 6.1.4 now provides a source type and plugin access to the artifcactory repository. Implementation…
- over 3 years ago
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Deployment Automation certification is now live

Paul Caruana

Do take a look at the new Deployment Automation Certification module and test your knowledge of the building blocks of Deployment Automation. There are currently five badges, and once these have been earned, you will qualify for the Deployment Automation…
- over 3 years ago
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SDA: Post Processing Script Evaluation Getting Started

Paul Caruana

A post processing script can be used as a mechanism for collecting output from a particular process step and storing it as a property to be referenced in another step. The tutorial describes how you can set up a simple but effective process and post…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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Using Serena Deployment Automation and Silk Test

Julian F

Silk Test is Micro Focus market leading Test Management and Test Automation http://www.borland.com/en-GB/Products/Software-Testing/Automated-Testing/Silk-Test The SDA plugin provides functionality to allow Silk Tests to be run across any platform…
- over 3 years ago
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SDA: Creating and using Properties from values in Shell Script Process Steps

MigrationDeletedUser

At times, we need to create or obtain a value from a shell script for use in later process steps. Here is an example of one simple way to accomplish this. In our example, we will assume that we have a component and the component versions are coming…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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SDA: Understanding process JOINs

MigrationDeletedUser

SDA: Understanding process JOIN SDA utilizes a graph-based system to represent the steps in a deployment process. This allows the creation of some complex deployments with a drag and drop interface. Within a process, there are times when we must connect…
- over 3 years ago
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Integrating Serena Deployment Automation and Maven based Repositories

Julian F

Customers often ask how to connect Serena Deployment Automation and Maven or Maven based repositories like Nexus. Screens may differ in later versions of SDA. Working with Maven based repositories and Serena Deployment Automation Serena Deployment…
- over 3 years ago
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SDA: Atlassian Bamboo plugin getting started tutorial

Paul Caruana

New in SDA 6.1 A plugin for Atlassian Bamboo is now available to integrate the Bamboo CI processes with SDA deployments. The following PDF document serves as a comprehensive introduction to using the Altassian Bamboo plugin and covers the following…
- over 3 years ago
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SDA: Introduction to pipelines tutorial

Paul Caruana

Pipelines were introduced in SDA 5.1.3, and allow for deployments to take place across multiple environments when running a application process. A pipeline is a sequence of environments where an application process request is propagated For…
- over 3 years ago
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SDA Switch Getting Started Tutorial

Paul Caruana

In SDA switches are a powerful mechanism for allowing the control over the flow of all process types defined within SDA namely: Application Component Global Switches can be used effectively with the process properties. This example will consider a…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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Example: Invoking SOAP Services using the SDA Web Services Plugin

MigrationDeletedUser

If you want to execute a SOAP service operation as part of a Serena Deployment Automation (SDA) process step, you can use the SDA Web Services plugin Invoke SOAP service step to do this. The following example gives the basics on how you would configure…
- over 3 years ago
- OpenText Deployment Automation
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