ARMONK, N.Y., Dec. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM)
today announced new Bluemix services designed to simplify and speed
app development in the cloud. With these new services, developers
can now access and construct preconfigured toolchains using popular
DevOps tools, including GitHub and Slack.
Toolchains, integrated sets of DevOps tools that support app
development, deployment and operations tasks, are integral to the
app development process. However, because they are typically
comprised of a variety of tools from multiple vendors as well as
open source solutions, integration, maintenance and deployment of
these toolchains can be an arduous task that can take days or even
weeks to complete.
To address this challenge, IBM Bluemix Continuous Delivery
provides DevOps teams with a central hub to create, manage and
scale toolchains. In addition, the Delivery Pipeline service
automates builds, tests and deployments and can detect issues
before applications go live, which can save developers time and
effort and potentially reduce time to value.
The new service also provides toolchain templates designed to be
provisioned enterprise-wide with a few mouse clicks and help make
it faster and easier to scale toolchains, and potentially reduce
cost and time to value for DevOps solutions. Templates available
now include toolchains to help build microservices, containers, or
cloud-native applications, with integrations to popular solutions
such as GitHub, Slack, PagerDuty and Sauce Labs.
"Millions of developers use GitHub to build personal projects,
support their businesses, and work together on open source
technologies," said GitHub's Todd
Berman, VP of Engineering. "GitHub is a powerful addition to
IBM's Bluemix Continuous Delivery service that builds on our
strategic partnership to dramatically advance the development of
next generation cloud applications for enterprise
customers."
By giving an organization the ability to create and share custom
toolchain templates across their business, IBM Bluemix Continuous
Delivery helps automate a wide variety of common DevOps tasks for a
range of application types, to help developers get working instead
of spinning up new toolchains for each project.
YOUTUBE VID (Bluemix Continuous Delivery):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDL0qOrx7tg
In addition to integration with popular tools like GitHub,
PagerDuty, Sauce Labs and Slack, Bluemix Continuous Delivery taps
into IBM's new Availability Monitoring service to help ensure
applications are available and meeting user expectations as
developers roll out updates. This service runs simulated user tests
from around the world, 24/7, to help detect problems in web
applications and REST architecture APIs. When integrated into
toolchains, it is designed to provide quick insights to the root
cause of problems so teams can make sure their applications are
running efficiently.
"One of the biggest challenges developers face in today's
cloud-led world is efficiently building and deploying applications
to stay competitive," said Dave
Lindquist, IBM Fellow and Vice President of Development, IBM
Cloud DevOps and Analytics. "With the introduction of Bluemix
Continuous Delivery, developers can not only create, integrate and
share DevOps toolchains using their favorite tools, but also add
optional pay-as-you-go powerful services like cognitive computing
with Watson or data and analytics
services from The Weather Company."
DevOps users can also benefit from the IBM and Slack
partnership announced in October to bring Watson to
Slack's global community of developers and enterprise users.
IBM and Slack intend to develop new and improved
communications tools for users of the Slack platform, including an
updated Slackbot to be powered by Watson, and an IBM Watson-enabled bot for IT
and network operational incidents, so enterprise devops teams can
more efficiently identify, address and fix these issues.
Bluemix, IBM's cloud platform, has grown rapidly to become one
of the largest open, public cloud deployments in the world. Based
in open standards, it features over 150 advanced technologies and
services, including cognitive computing, blockchain, Internet of
Things, cloud data services, DevOps and security.
For more information on IBM Cloud, visit www.ibm.com/cloud.
To try Bluemix Continuous Delivery and Bluemix Availability
Monitoring today, visit: https://bluemix.net/devops
Contact
Tyler Allen
IBM Media Relations
tballen@us.ibm.com
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