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Powerful And Useful Once Beyond The Learning Curve.

Rating: 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for the deployment of our web-based artifacts and database changes. This ranges from Java WARs and EARs to basic .zip files and packages made for SQL deployments through another vendor. It's also our artifact storage through CodeStation and provides us with an immutable history of deployments and the inventory of our environments.

Pros

  • Visual deployment instructions.
  • Inventory management of environments.
  • Component configuration at a granular level with customization.

Cons

  • Use of the internal API for public API use.
  • Less cryptic CLI output on commands.
  • Better use of custom variables that don't interfere with UCD's use.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is easy to create new orchestrations for automation or deployment purposes. However, connecting the dots to get from end to end is not intuitive and requires a learning curve to work past. However, once up and running with a working understanding of the mechanisms required to run deployments and projects, the tool becomes valuable, especially through its repeatability.
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Joe Albano
Senior Configuration Management Advisor in Information Technology at General Dynamics Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
IBM DevOps Deploy
6 years of experience

IBM UrbanCode Deploy works

Rating: 8 out of 10
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM UrbanCode Deploy is being used by the IT department to manage and deploy code, configuration, and other changes throughout our IT systems.

Pros

  • Consistently deploys to multiple environments with no changes to the process. Having reusable processes across environments from Dev to Production make deployments more consistent and easier to manage.
  • IBM UrbanCode Deploy has an easy to understand UI, to be able to review if a deployment has successfully completed or not, and details if it did not work. Using the UI is simple and easy to understand.
  • Scheduling and approvals are built-in as configured for the deployments. This allows us to use the same deployment process, but get approvals as needed when code is moved up to the upper environments.

Cons

  • IBM UrbanCode Deploy does code deployments easy enough, but configurations or ex deployments are a little more complicated. I work on packaged systems, so most of the code I get is form a vendor that I have to deploy.
  • IBM UebanCode Deploy integration into the mainframe world would be ideal. My company uses Mainframe and OpenSystems technologies, and many times there are dependencies between the deployments.

Likelihood to Recommend

IBM UrbanCode Deploy is excellent for code deployments such as Java, .Net, C++, etc. It can also deploy and run SQLs reasonably well. Where it lacks is the ability for executables, Jars, WARs, EARs, etc.
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Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
IBM DevOps Deploy
3 years of experience