Not long ago, Oracle has announced that continuous integration (CI) tools from its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DevOps solution are now generally available. The launch capitalized on the company’s existing continuous deployment (CD) capabilities to provide a complete end-to-end CI/CD platform in OCI commercial regions.
Developers may now commit their source code to a DevOps code repository, use a build runner to produce and test software artifacts, send artifacts to OCI repositories, and then deploy to OCI platforms.
Oracle technologies have made two additional software release strategies available for deploying apps with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DevOps deployment pipelines: Blue-Green deployments and Canary deployments.
Deployment strategies enable DevOps teams to specify how applications are deployed to production. Admins can make a trade-off between the risk of delivering a new release, the influence of the new release on its users, and the infrastructure overhead required to implement the strategy by choosing between alternative deployment strategies.
Oracle’s new upgrade gives customers more deployment options so they may make the best trade-off for their application or corporate objectives.
Simplify your software delivery process with DevOps:
Whether developers create a new cloud-native app or move a current project to OCI, the DevOps service can help them get their software to market faster.
Developers can use the DevOps service to automate each part of their software delivery lifecycle, allowing them to deploy features faster and with fewer errors.
The continuously improving how engineering teams provide software is known as DevOps.
According to recent research on engineering team capabilities, their competencies are favorably associated with business performance. For example, your client earns value from your product if your team can safely release features more frequently than your competition.
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) DevOps service is a developer-centric, end-to-end continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform. Developers now have a full CI/CD platform to accelerate and optimize software delivery on OCI, thanks to the availability of code repositories and build pipelines capabilities from the DevOps service.
This service allows developers to quickly create, test, and deploy software and applications on Oracle Cloud. Thanks to DevOps build and deployment pipelines, customers spend less time producing and deploying releases, eliminating change-related mistakes. In addition, the service lets you keep your code in private Git repositories and link to external code repositories.
You might also desire to switch software delivery and deployments to OCI platforms after migrating an existing application from on-premises or another cloud to OCI. The OCI DevOps solution is adaptable enough to operate with your existing CI/CD processes.
Suppose you’re moving and want to preserve your existing CI workflow. In that case, you can migrate your deployment process to DevOps and coordinate your release stages with DevOps deployment pipelines by triggering a deployment from an existing CI pipeline.
The OCI DevOps service is integrated into the OCI platform and forms part of its fabric. So, for example, you may set up access for your team with Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and rules instead of handling them in a separate CI/CD platform.
Deploying using Blue-Green and Canary Strategy
Oracle’s Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) and Compute Instance environments now support the new deployment options announced by the Oracle Platform. Users can leverage the enhanced capabilities provided by these techniques to:
- Create a deployment pipeline that follows a simple approach to implement these techniques.
- Validate the new application release that implements these tactics automatically.
- During the strategy workflow, add an approval gate to enforce governance policy.
- If unanticipated issues arise after deployment, it’s easier to revert to the prior stable release.
- Employ a canary technique that allows you to roll back a new version without having to promote it to production.
Blue-green deployment is a deployment technique that uses two similar environments with different versions of an application or service, a “blue” (aka staging) and a “green” (aka production).
The Blue-Green deployment technique enables a new version of an application to be released utilizing two similar environments, one of which is active at any one moment.
One of the advantages of blue-green deployment is that it is simple, quick, well-understood, and simple to put into practice. The key benefit of this method is that it has very little downtime and allows for fast rollback.
If the new version causes problems, traffic can be switched back to the previous stable version immediately, and the standby environment can be used to troubleshoot the newest program release.
Canary deployment is a strategy for releasing an application or service to a small group of users in stages. Because of this control, the canary release is the least risky of all the deployment options.
The DevOps team can analyze it by allowing the new application version to receive user traffic and early feedback. They can also evaluate the features of the two application versions side by side before releasing the new version to a larger audience.
Because the updated version is only available to a small number of people, the strategy also reduces risk. If the new version isn’t ready for a full production rollout, these users can easily revert to the stable version.
Final Words:
You can use the Console & browser-based interface, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI, or REST APIs to access DevOps. Then, use the automated QuickStart reference architecture to set up and run a DevOps pipeline in your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure account to get going with the DevOps service.
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