Deployment Planning and Automation for the Cloud: Rational/Tivoli solution for improved deployment

http://ibm.com/rational/cloud/deployment/

Successful deployments are wrought with challenges with many factors that need to be addressed. Application component requirements often do not match IT infrastructure deployment requirements. Without a central library of standard templates every deployment has to start from scratch and the outcome is based on the quality and experience of the engineer.

The IBM Deployment Planning and Automation for Cloud accelerator allows software architects in development teams and deployment engineers in operations teams to use Rational Software Architect (RSA), with Extensions for Deployment Automation Planning, to create detailed deployment topology models & Rational Asset Manager (RAM) to store them as patterns. Such models are used to generate Tivoli Service Automation Manager (TSAM) Service Definitions with Tivoli® Provisioning Manager (TPM) workflows to provision physical or virtual servers and install middleware to host the applications. The models are also used to generate Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere (RAFW)  projects for application deployment and configuration. The resultant end-to-end automation provides a seamless integration between IT infrastructure automation and application deployment steps.

This accelerator facilitates formalized communications between development and operations teams and use of standardized parameters for repeatable deployments.

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• ibm
• rational
• deployment
• deployment planning
• deployment automation
• automation
• topology
• zephyr
• tivoli
• service automation
• rational software architect
• rational automation framework
• RAFW
• TSAM
• RSA
• deployment modeling
• deployment modelling
• cloud
• virtualization