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Hands Off My SOA Deployment


New tool from Sonic designed to automate the process

By David Worthington
November 15, 2007 — 
Attempting to manually redeploy a service-oriented architecture can be a costly and risky proposition, as it is labor-intensive and introduces the risk of human error. Recognizing that, Progress Software is trying to help customers remove the human element and automatically roll out SOA deployments.

Progress Sonic Deployment Manager (SDM) allows enterprises to model all aspects of large-scale Sonic SOA deployments, and test would-be production environments prior to deployment. It automates repeatable installations and configurations, and may be used within a project development life cycle to move components from one staging environment to the next.

Product marketing manager David White claimed that SDM cuts costs by allowing SOA deployments to be cloned from a single central location; employees are not sent on site and have no physical presence. SDM also helps organizations bring SOA components online faster because it makes the test and QA cycle more efficient, he added.

White explained that SDM creates configuration files to deploy at remote sites. SDM pushes it out based on a model developed by systems architects and operations staff. Models are written in a proprietary scripting language that is similar to XML.

White explained, “The architect and IT operations people build a model of what the configuration should look like and do not need to understand the bits and bytes of how Sonic is deployed. The deployment takes the model and performs installs and upgrade; the documentation is in the form of the model.”

SDM can pull as well as push: It features a rollback capability that can yank a faulty configuration out of production and send it back to the QA lab for correction.


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