Towards Automated Deployment of Built-to-Order Systems

Abstract. End-to-end automated application design and deployment poses a significant technical challenge. With increasing scale and complexity of IT systems and the manual handling of existing scripts and configuration files for application deployment that makes them increasingly error-prone and brittle, this problem has become more acute. Even though design tools have been used to automate system design, it is usually difficult to translate these designs to deployed systems in an automated manner due to both syntactic obstacles and the synchronization of multiple activities involved in such a deployment. We describe a generic process of automated deployment from design documents and evaluate this process for 1, 2, and 3-tier distributed applications.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: DSOM
• Authors: Akhil Sahai, Calton Pu, Gueyoung Jung, Qinyi Wu, Wenchang Yan, Galen S. Swint
• Keywords: Application Deployment, DSOM 2005, End-to-end Automated Application, Significant Technical Challenge