Hands-On Lab: Take CA Release Automation for a Test Drive

Hands-On Lab: Take CA Release
Automation for a Test Drive
Marta Benach
DevOps: Continuous Delivery
CA Technologies
Principle Engineering Services Architect
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Abstract
Curious about the latest version of CA Release
Automation? Why not take it for a spin? CA Release
Automation delivers end-to-end automation, insights and
integrations to take you from build to production more
effectively than ever before. But don’t take our word for
it. For the first time ever, we are offering a special test
drive to enable you to experience the capabilities of CA
Release Automation firsthand.
Marta
Benach
CA Technologies
Principal Engineering
Services Architect

Agenda
WHAT IS THE RELEASE AUTOMATION CUSTOMER TEST DRIVE
FOUNDATION FOR CONTINUOUS DELIVERY: CA RELEASE AUTOMATION
LAB USE CASE
LAB WALK THROUGH
SUMMARY
1
2
3
4
5

CA Release Automation Test Drive
What is the test drive?
 A sandbox environment with a built-in
Continuous Delivery Use Case
 Videos, FAQs, How-To’s, Step By Steps
Why did we build it?
 Enable customers to get hands on
experience with CA Release Automation
How do I get it?
 Register at the end of this lab
 Speak to your account rep

Governance, approval
gatesReusable models, consistency
REP
MGR
Foundation for Continuous Delivery:
CA Release Automation
Manage the complexity
and volume of applications,
tools and environments
SCALE
Align teams to focus on
customer-centric,
on-demand releases
ACCELERATE
Stabilize the entire release
cycle to continually
improve quality
CONTROL
SCM CI CONTAINER TEST CONFIG CLOUD PROVISION CHANGE
MGMT
Transparency, tracing, auditing Release alerts & details
QA/TEST PRE-PROD PRODUCTIONDEV
Customer
Experience

Continuous Delivery Scenario – Pulling It All Together
4Stage
Artifacts
1
Release Operations Center
Source Control
QA
Dev1
Test 1
Production
Kick –Off Build
2
5
Run Deployment Processes
6 7
Promote Promote
Approval Gate
3
Service Virtualization

CA Release Automation Test Drive Use Case
Within the Test Drive
environment, launch Jenkins and
initiate a new build
Within the Test Drive
environment, login to CA Release
Automation
(login provided when prospect
registers)
Browse the dashboard to
understand Agents, Applications
and Deployments
Click on Deployments and access
the latest Jenkins build under
‘Running’ to see its deployment
status and post deployment
actions
Check the Deployment Pipeline
Overview and promote to next
environment, Stage
Examine the latest instance of
the deployment in the Post
Deployment tab, and ‘Execute a
Sanity Test’ to see real-time
details and to make sure the Cars
website is running
At the Deployment Pipeline
Overview, see the approval gate
at Production and approve step
to move release forward to final
environment
View the release loading into
production, including the artifact
distribution
Return to the Test Drive
environment and launch the Cars
application to see it fully
deployed in production
The Use Case provided with the test drive is Cars, a luxury automotive website.
Use Case General Flow

Lab Environment
Login to Lab Machine
Launch Google Chrome
http://192.168.195.128:8080/testdrive/index.html

Lab – Deploy Cars 2.0 Application
Click on
“Launch
Jenkins CI”

Click on
“Build
Now”

 Note the Build Number
– In this example, it is 104
 yours maybe different
 Return to the Sandbox Portal Page

Click CA
Release
Automation
link

Login with superuser/suser

On the Dashboard Click the “Total Agent” button to see details
about the agents in the system.

Click the “Application” button
There are 2 applications defined

Click the “Deployments” button
Recent Deployments are listed

 Click on the Running Deployments.
If your build is not yet running, wait a moment and refresh the screen with f5.
 The Project name is listed as Sprint1(7-104), where 104 is the Jenkins build number.
(This may be different for you)
 Click the deployment Name details on the running deployment.

The Pre-deployment,
Deployment and Post
Deployment boxes show the
status.
Here, the Post Deployment is
running, demarcated by the
big orange box.
The steps for the Deployment
are shown. These steps are
dynamically created in the
Pre-deployment stage
according to the artifacts built
by Jenkins.

Click On the Post
Deployment tab to
see the steps
 Execute Sanity Test which
verifies the website is up
 Run Test Suite which uses
Service Virtualization to
run tests against the
application
 Promote Deployment
which promotes the build
to the next environment

Now let’s check the pipeline.
On the Releases tab dropdown, select
“Deployment Pipeline Overview”.

 The Sprint 1 project shows 4
environments, Dev, TST-1,
Stage, and Production.
 Each environment shows the
state and the build currently
applied.
 The Dev environment shows
the current build.
 Once completed, the release
will auto-promote to the TST-
1 environment.

 Once the TST-1
deployment has
completed, Click the
arrow.
 Select “Promote to Next
Environment”
 Note: This will promote to
the environment to the
right. Environments can
be rearranged by dragging
the boxes.

The deployment will now run in the Stage environment.

Let’s look at the Stage Deployment.
Select Releases | Deployments

 The Running deployment is shown at the top of the list. Build 104 has been successfully
deployed to Dev and TST-1 and is currently deploying to Stage.
 Click the Blue deployment link, Artifact Driven Deployment-104_Stage.

Click on the Post
Deployment Step
“Execute Sanity
Test” while it is
running, to see
real time details
about the
process.

 This process verifies that the Cars website is running.
 The process accesses a given URL and checks the
value of the http response code.
 If the website is not available, it loops using a delay
action and tries again.
 Once it is successful, it proceeds to the next step in
the deployment.

Return to the Pipeline Report.
Click Release | Deployment Pipeline
Overview.

 The Production Environment is configured with an approval gate. It requires approval for the
deployment to run.
 Click on the … Click Release | Deployment Pipeline Overview.

Click on “Artifact Driven Deployment-104_Stage” link

Click on “Waiting for user input.”

 Expand the
Parameter Required
(Check if Approve)
and Select “Yes,
Please Continue with
Deployment”
 Click “Apply”. The
deployment will now
be pushed to
production.

 The Production
Deployment will continue.
 In the Pre-Deployment, we
can see the artifacts being
distributed for the build.

Once the Production deployment is complete, return to the Sandbox Portal page.

Click on
“Launch Cars
Application”

The Cars
application has
now been
deployed into the
Production
environment.

Results
• CA Release Automation is an Integral part of the DevOps journey
• CA Release Automation makes deployment to multiple environments super easy
• CA Release Automation allows for consistent and fast deployments to production
environments
Summary
A Few Words to Review
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