Posted by Vincent Partington mid-afternoon: May 8th, 2011
At XebiaLabs, we have recently been working on an exciting new integration for Deployit, our deployment automation product. We’ve created a Deployit plugin that allows you to deploy EAR files directly to virtual systems created by IBM’s WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance (WCA).
But a small piece of background first. Deployit and WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance both “deploy” things. But they deploy different things. Deployit deploys application artifacts and resources such as EAR files and data sources to middleware systems like WebSphere Application Server (but also HTML to web servers, MQ configuration to queue managers, etc.). The WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance on the other hand, deploys patterns (topologies) of virtual images to hypervisors. But not just any kind of virtual images. It is especially geared towards deploying middleware topologies. In other words, the software Deployit wants to deploy to! This means that the functionalities of WCA and Deployit are a perfect fit; have WCA deploy the middleware systems and have Deployit deploy applications to those middleware systems.
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