IBM Quick Deployer

IBM Quick Deployer automates installing and deploying IBM Jazz solutions: Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) and IoT Continuous Engineering (CE) on Red Hat Linux 6.9+ or Windows Server (2012 and 2016) by using IBM UrbanCode Deploy. Currently the operating system of all VMs in a deployment must be the same. You can use IBM Quick Deployer to deploy CLM 6.0, CLM 6.0.x and CE 6.0.x on user-supplied VMs, either locally or in the cloud. The automation can also install and configure middleware, including IBM WebSphere Application Server or IBM WebSphere Liberty, IBM HTTP Server, and IBM DB2 database server, Oracle database server, or SQL Server database server. IBM Quick Deployer supports the standard Jazz deployment topologies; however, because it uses an UrbanCode Deploy tagging mechanism, you can distribute applications across multiple servers and many different topologies are possible. Currently only new installations are supported and only one instance of each Jazz application is supported per topology. Upgrade support is being considered for future releases.

IBM Quick Deployer is developed and used internally by the CLM DevOps pipeline team. IBM Quick Deployer provides a flexible mechanism for building topologies and easily switching between deployment platforms. IBM Quick Deployer is available as an unsupported utility that can be downloaded from Jazz.net, so you can now use the same automation to deploy and configure new installations in your own environment. IBM Quick Deployer removes the need to understand all the middleware and application configuration details, eliminates human error, conforms to recommended topologies, and provides a repeatable process.

IBM Quick Deployer overview

• IBM UrbanCode Deploy-based new installation and configuration package for CLM and CE (no upgrade support)
• Support for installing iFix releases for CLM, Design Management and IBM Rhapsody Design Management applications
• Used internally as part of the CLM continuous test pipeline
• UrbanCode Deploy-type tagging allows you to control which applications are deployed and where
• Eliminates dependence on preinstalled middleware images
• Installs WebSphere Application Server
• Supports deployment of environments that include the WebSphere Liberty server
• Installs IBM HTTP Server (reverse proxy)
• Installs a DB2, Oracle, or SQL Server database server or connects to an existing DB2, Oracle, or SQL Server database server
• Connects to a provided LDAP server
• Delivered as an unsupported Jazz.net download

New in QD v2.1

• Support for SQL Server 2014 databases on Windows.
• Supports deployment of environments that include the IBM WebSphere Liberty server (for environments that consist of CLM/CE 6.0.5 or later applications).
• Supports deployment of Rhapsody Model Manager (RMM).
• Support for Db2 11.1 Fixpack 2.
• Support for Oracle 12c R1 and 12c R2.
• Support for interim Java SDK fixpacks for WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and IBM HTTP Server (IHS).

System requirements

• System requirements

Limitations and known issues

• Limitations and known issues

Package content

• Package content

Application setup and run

• For an end to end example of a deployment to Windows, see Example of end to end deployment on Windows using Quick Deployer
• For an example of how to leverage the included blueprints included with Quick Deployer, see How to use the topology blueprints included with Quick Deployer

Miscellaneous

Notes:

• Throughout the IBM Quick Deployer wiki the screen captures are for reference only.
  In some cases if the functionality they display has not changed in the latest release they will be from a previous release

Related topics:

• Quick Deployer
• Quick Deployer setup and run

External links:

• Collaborative Lifecycle Management
• Continuous Engineering
• UrbanCode Deploy

Additional contributors: MichelleCrane, NathanBak, ChristianLopez