The Holy Grail of Software Delivery: Continuous Delivery with a Real Deployment Platform

SEATTLE - Aug. 26, 2015 - PRLog -- In recent years of software development, continuous delivery has become an integral part of almost every software engineering team. Software developers have become accustomed to simply committing code to their git or mercurial repositories and having an automated system kick-off a build and run tests. This process of continuous delivery ensures accountability, while helping dev teams ship better software, faster to their customers.

Most commercial and open source continuous integration systems describe what they do as CI/CD, which stands for "Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment." While continuous integration is now a solved problem, the Continuous Deployment piece still leaves a lot to be desired for companies that deploy to private data centers or to servers that are hosted in the cloud.

Developers deploying with these continuous integration systems must write their own deployment scripts that push code to their servers over SSH, and then jump through the necessary hoops to get the app deployed, and the new version of the code started.

Rahul Singh, Founder & CEO of Distelli says, "The holy grail of software delivery would be to commit to your source repository and watch the new version of your code automatically deployed and running to your beta or QA stack; it should work without limitations. It shouldn't matter what language, operating system or type server, it should just work, it's that easy."

The fact that most Continuous Integration system allows developers to plug in their hand-rolled script to do deployments on successful builds is of little consolation. Rahul believes that developers have a higher bar for automation, and being that he was at Amazon for nearly nine years helping build Amazon Web Services, he can confirm that this is indeed the case.

Distelli is a new Deployment Platform that solves the “CD” problem, and solves it well. On August 25, Distelli announced that developers can now connect their Git or Mercurial repositories to Distelli to build and deploy code - in any language, and to any server. All successful builds can be automatically deployed to any server anywhere - private clouds, private servers, servers in an AWS VPC and even the server under your desk.

Distelli keeps track of all builds, releases, deployments, and the environments (QA, Dev, Test or Prod) that those releases were deployed to; as well as audit the developers who built and/or deployed them. It'll automatically notify the developer and their team of all successful or failed builds and deployments via email, or popular tools like, HipChat or Slack. They can do all of this without requiring SSH access to your servers.

Distelli is a flexible and powerful deployment platform attempting to change the DevOps space. Their current release includes the following features:

Build
- Travis compatible Continuous Integration
- Build and deploy directly from Git or Mercurial repositories
- Build notifications via email, HipChat or Slack channels
- Builds powered by Docker
- Provision on-premise build servers with one-click

Deploy
- Deploy to any server without SSH access
- Deployment notifications via email, HipChat or Slack Channels
- Real-time deployment logs streamed directly to your browser
- Environments for easy deployments to QA, Dev, Test or Prod
- Audit trails that keep a history of all releases & deployments
- Integrated process management, eliminating the need of nanny scripts
- Real-time process stdout logs streamed to your browser

Upcoming

While Distelli has been in production and powering deployments across thousands of servers for customers for almost three years, today is the first major announcement since they raised their Series A from Andreessen Horowitz. (https://www.distelli.com/blog/distelli-series-a-funding)

Rahul said, "I'm also excited about the fact that our roadmap for the rest of this year is deep and wide, and I'm looking forward to showing the world more innovative features in the upcoming weeks."