Compelling Events for Automation• Middleware Upgrades It’s great when new vendors

bring out new features - but often taking advantage of them takes a good deal of time and effort to upgrade the new infrastructure - and introduces risk. Automating the upgrade project speeds it up, reduces the risk and builds a more manageable platform in the future.

• Migrating off ‘Premium Product’ With the economy as it is, more organizations are forced to tighten their belts, and one area that has come under particular scrutiny is the annual cost of maintaining installed software. Some organizations have made the decision to move less business critical applications off more expensive middleware onto open-source platforms such as JBoss and Tomcat. This type of project is accelerated when it’s automated and an automation tool makes managing hybrid or heterogeneous environments much easier.

• Building a PAAS or a private cloud With pressure on businesses to deliver more innovation to their customers, faster, we see many of our customers building Platforms As A Service and private clouds. These are a lot faster and quicker to set up using an automation tool, and a lot quicker to manage demand once they are up and running.

• Core business application upgrades or migrations Many of our customers occasionally need to upgrade or even replace their core business applications - often complex, multi-layered, integrated systems that have evolved over time and have many integration points and are absolutely critical to the minute by minute operations of the business. Using an automation tool can reduce the risk and time associated with such a project.

• Platform migrations Sometimes it’s time to move from one platform to another - for instance, customers sometimes feel that a UNIX based platform will offer them performance advantages over an OS400 platform. But moving hundreds of middleware applications might seem like a challenge too far - without automation.

• Rearchitecting Change is a constant and businesses need to continually evolve their IT infrastructure and operations, build new environments for things like Disaster Recovery and automating the build and deployment of these new environments means delivering them faster.

Jenkins Insights• Implementing a DevOps process demands

integration through the toolchain and it’s essential that your Application Release Automation tool integrates with the build engine your developers are using on a daily basis.

RApIddEploy™ plugIn foR JEnkIns

Rapiddeploy™ provides organizations with Application Release Automation capabilities to reduce costs, improve productivity and time to value and assure compliance. There is a range of plugins available to extend the core automation framework capabilities to most available platforms and perform integrations throughout the devops toolchain. This datasheet refers to the Jenkins plugin.

Plugins are downloaded through the Plugin Manager console in RapidDeploy™, or from the MidVision website at www.midvision.com.

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Jenkins plugin overviewThis plugin may be useful where you want to use RapidDeploy™ to invoke your Jenkins build. Typically, each RapidDeploy™ project will equate to an equivalent Jenkins one. Using this plugin enables Jenkins to build the deployable artifacts into a deployment package that is consumed by the MidVision framework to perform the actual deployment.

Invoking a build through the Jenkins plugin allows for real-time log streaming back to the Framework server. The logs are maintained in the framework server along with the logs for other projects build engines, giving a single consistent consistent platform for monitoring many builds for many projects and their multiple different build engines.

Jenkins plugin VersionsThe RapidDeploy™ Jenkins plugin supports all recent versions of Jenkins.

Rapiddeploy™ pluginsThe RapidDeploy™ plugins extend the functionality of the core automation framework and are categorised in the following way:

• Toolchain plugins enabling integration with Build Engines, Artifact repositories and Source Control Management tools

• Transport plugins enabling use of SSH and Agent capability

• Target plugins enabling connectivity with broad range of Middleware Applications and Databases

• Cloud plugins enabling connectivity to cloud providers

• Business Intelligence plugins to extend the CAF including for example, enhanced comparison functionality and additional reporting capabilities

plugins ship with:• A Library of commonly used tasks

• Wizards & extensive help information

• Predefined automation library elements

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Want this plugin? getting hold of it’s easy - either:1) Go to the Plugin Manager in your installation of RapidDeploy™ and pick your plugin from the list or

2) Go to www.midvision.com > Support > Downloads > RapidDeploy Plugin Downloads and select your plugin from there. If you have any problems, please call or email your MidVision Account Manager.

You must license your plugin separately - please speak to your MidVision Account Manager or email sales@midvision.com. If you are an IBM Rational Automation Framework customer and would like access to this plugin, please contact us at www.midvision.com.