Automic Continuous Delivery

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About Automic Continuous Delivery

Automic Continuous Delivery consists of two products, Automic Continuous Delivery Automation and Automic Continuous Delivery Director, integrated via the Automic Continuous Delivery Automation plug-in.

Automic Continuous Delivery Automation (CDA) is an end-to-end solution for planning, coordinating and automating software release processes, including automated deployments of complex multi-tier applications and configurations across heterogeneous, large-scale server environments.

The purpose of CDA is to unify enterprise application and infrastructure automation functionality onto a single platform - without the need of managing multiple tools. Users first architect and control the execution of application process workflows and then orchestrate the underlying infrastructure to meet the required service levels.

To access the CDA functionality, you use the browser-based Automic Web Interface (AWI) and the Release Automation perspective that is delivered with the AWI Extension.

Automic Continuous Delivery Director offers an easily configurable, visual, and strategic control point for planning and directing the processes and content of multi-team, multi-application releases from agile development through production.

Automic Continuous Delivery Director (CDD for short) helps you orchestrate a continuous delivery pipeline for quick and dependable application deployments. The Plug-in for CDD allows you to import the Application model from the integrated CDA instance and start both Application and General Workflows directly from the CDD user interface. See: https://docops.ca.com/ca-continuous-delivery-director/integrations/en

The Automic Continuous Delivery Automation plug-in lets you leverage core deployment capabilities by importing the application model from the integrated CDA instance and start both Application and General Workflows directly from the CDD user interface.

Using CDA for defining Application Deployments and CDD for orchestrating them provides you with the ability to configure critical building blocks of a continuous delivery and release automation pipeline. By combining both tools, you can model, deploy, and visualize the application pipeline. Furthermore, you can automate the entire delivery and release pipeline between development and production, supporting emerging use cases such as containers, microservices, test data management, and vulnerability tracking.

Configuring the Integration

To configure the Automic Continuous Delivery Automation plug-in, you register the plug-in in the Automic Continuous Delivery Director UI and create endpoints to all necessary Automic Continuous Delivery Automation systems. You can then use the Start General Workflow or Start Application Workflow tasks to run a CDA deployment plan in the context of Automic Continuous Delivery Director phases and releases. The Start General Workflow and Start Application Workflow tasks let you orchestrate core CDA activities at a high level. For example, an Automic Continuous Delivery Director release might include multiple applications that you can deploy through the CDA deployment workflows. A phase might also contain specific tasks for other activities automated through CDA.

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