Webinar: Automating the Creation and Use of Virtual Testing Environments
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Skytap provides on-demand cloud environments to help enterprises deliver better software faster by removing inefficiencies in the product development lifecycle. Traditional on-premise environments cause delays, restrict parallel development, and lead to defects due to inconsistent environments. Skytap's self-service cloud environments eliminate these problems by providing on-demand, pre-configured environments that developers can access immediately, reducing the time spent on environment management and reproducing defects.
Webinar: Automating the Creation and Use of Virtual Testing Environments
- 1. Skytap Overview Deliver Better Software Faster Tony Perez, Solutions Architect
- 2. Skytap provides Environments as a Service to the enterprise. Our solution removes the inefficiencies and constraints that companies have within the product lifecycle. As a result, our customers deliver better software faster. 2008 Product Launched 275+ Enterprise Customers More than 3 Million Environments Provisioned 120+ Employees in the Seattle Cloud Hub 7 Patents + Additional 9 Pending Headquarters Downtown Seattle 4 Global Data Centers + Amazon Web Services & SoftLayer
- 4. Environment: Storefront2-0D Web/Application Server 1 (WebSphere) Web/Application Server 2 (WebSphere) Load Balancer (F5 Big IP VE) External OpenFiler (Virtual SAN) Oracle RAC Database Server (Linux) Oracle RAC Database Server (Linux) Domain Controller (Windows) Reporting Server (Windows) DMZ RAC Private InternalWeb UI Reporting SQL Server (Windows) RAC Public Ecommerce Example Environment Corporate Headquarters On-Premise Datacenter SAP via Service Virtualization
- 5. Generating Environments from Templates Integ QA Pre-Prod Template
- 6. For Technology Companies Skytap provides environments for the full product lifecycle Product Lifecycle Development Marketing Training Support Continuous Integration Self-Paced Training Instructor-Led Training Sales DemoDev/Test Labs Upgrade Testing Issue Reproduction
- 7. Environment Scarcity Causes IT Inefficiencies in the Product Lifecycle 50% 10% Of all data center infrastructure is devoted to pre-production SDLC. Average utilization of pre-production infrastructure. And demand for pre-production environments is still not met. On-average, each enterprise software release cycle loses 18 days waiting for access to an environment.
- 8. Manual Labor & Defects Causes Dev/Test Inefficiencies in the SDLC Shared environments restrict parallel workstreams, restrict innovation and prevent exploratory dev/test Environments must be reset after each test run 30-50% of QA time is spent on environ mgmt. Preproduction environments are not at parity 40-50% defects due to inconsistent environments Limited access to pre-production environments 25% of developer time spent reproducing defects Wk1 Wk2 Wk3 Wk4 Wk5 Wk6 Wk7 Wk8 Data Load Config Mgmt. Deployment Integration Acceptance Production QA finds defect Defect Report Logged Developer reproduces in own environment
- 9. Cloud Environments as a Service Removes product lifecycle inefficiencies Self-service access to as many as needed, whenever needed, on-demand Eliminates teams waiting for access & enables parallel workstreams restrict innovation and prevent exploratory dev/test Pre-provisioned, networked, configured & data- loaded multi-server environments Reduces time spent on environment management Environments are predictable & identical clones Catch defects sooner to reduce costs & downtime Clone environments including data & memory state Developers have immediate access to the defect Wk1 Wk2 Wk3 Wk4 Wk5 Wk6 Wk7 Wk8 Pre-Loaded Pre-Configured Automated Integration Acceptance Production QA finds defect Defect Report Logged Developer accesses identical clone w/ defect
- 10. The Skytap Solution Web Client SKYTAP CLOUD IaaS SOFTLAYER CLOUD IaaS REST API CMD Line ALM/CI Tools E N V I R O N M E N T S - A S - A - S E R V I C E IT/Ops Network/IP & Security settings Dev Access Controls Manage Environments Utilization/Quotas TestSelf-Service Access Save & Reproduce Defects Copy/Share Environments Build & Deploy automation Projects & templates Environment management Mobile Admin
- 11. Integrating with Skytap • REST based API Comprehensive coverage of Skytap capabilities • Fully documented (help.skytap.com) • Secure • Allows for custom integrations into the SDLC
- 12. Click Here: http://bit.ly/1FTDagz Full On-Demand Webinar
Editor's Notes
- #5: An Environment in Skytap contains everything the team needs to build and test our multi-tier Storefront application. It has the following components: An internet-facing web application. J2EE application running on WebSphere running on two Linux based systems sitting behind an F5 Big IP load balancer It uses Oracle 11g RAC for database. Its uses an OpenFiler for storage There is also a Business Intelligence Server using SQL Server as a backend Notice the numerous networks that are required for this application, as there are networks for each logical component. We have also connected this Environment to our On-Premise datacenter using Skytap's VPN capability as well as connecting it to another Environment that is shared by others in Skytap that we have utilized to virtualize some of the services that our application is dependent on. In this example, our application does have a dependency to call out to a Credit Card service such as American Express, as well as a legacy component that runs on a Midrange UNIX platform. We have encapsulated those two components with a virtual service that runs in this shared Environment.
- #11: Skytap offers the world’s most advanced solution for delivering software development and test environments on cloud infrastructure. Our patented Environments-as-a-Service solution was purpose-built to allow enterprise dev and test teams self-service access to environments that mirror production, so they can work in parallel, test earlier and collaborate. Skytap automates the provisioning, copying, sharing and tear down of these complex environment configurations in seconds or minutes, not days or weeks. Skytap offers an IT Ops view for management, as well as supporting API and REST-based service calls and build commands, with integration to leading continuous integration solutions. Customers can run on Skytap’s own global cloud infrastructure, as well as leveraging leading cloud infrastructures such as Softlayer.