CA Technologies has announced the availability of CA Release Automation Continuous Delivery Edition, and several new integrations across CA’s DevOps portfolio and third party solutions creating the first integrated, fully automated and open continuous delivery ecosystem.
Organizations can now connect and automate the entire app pipeline progression from development, to test, to production, to accelerate deployment times of applications by as much as 20 times and improve testing efficiency by up to 25 percent.
“Continuous delivery is the bedrock of digital transformation and the ability to rapidly and reliably release applications that meet the demands of internal and external customers alike is what makes the difference. However end-to-end automation of continuous delivery can be very challenging and it is critical to have it seamlessly integrate processes and tools especially in today’s application economy,” said Richard Gerdis, vice president, DevOps, Asia Pacific & Japan, CA Technologies.
“Without a purpose-built DevOps integration mainstay, it’s not possible to have the diverse DevOps tools to work together. This results in insufficient visibility in the end-to-end process bottlenecks and wastage of engineering integrations. As such, we’ve created the industry’s first open integration-and-automation backbone for continuous delivery and believe it’s the best solution for accelerating end-to-end DevOps while ensuring effective end-to-end DevOps governance.”
Continuous Delivery
As organizations progress on their digital transformation journey, the volume, velocity and complexity of applications continues to grow. “Businesses no longer have the luxury of time. Rising customer expectations, competitive threats, and increased consumer choice have turned rapid delivery and iteration of software applications into a competitive differentiator. Optimizing the delivery value chain has become the new means to better business outcomes,” according to Forrester Research.
For application owners tasked with rapidly delivering innovative and inspiring applications, but struggling with constraints and dependencies across the software development lifecycle, CA helps eliminate these challenges by providing continuous delivery capabilities that enable organizations to improve release planning and orchestration, use agile testing to test less and cover more, provision data on demand and deploy simulated environments – all with zero touch workflow.
Integration between CA API Management, CA Service Virtualization and CA Application Test enable development teams to automatically create the virtual services and API tests needed to support the rapid development of composite applications and microservices.
Furthermore, to help organizations leverage existing investments, CA’s continuous delivery solutions integrate easily with market tools such as HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), Atlassian’s JIRA Software, Jenkins, Docker, Perfecto, Chef and Puppet for an open and fully integrated continuous delivery solution stack.
Cloud technologies and DevOps principles with highly sophisticated release automation go hand-in-hand to ensure businesses can deliver the apps that can help them better compete easier and faster. The open and flexible architecture of CA’s continuous delivery solutions can help organizations deploy applications to modern Cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Skytap as a standard part of their app delivery practices.