FlexDeploy platform provides easy to configure role-based security model. In my experience, most FlexDeploy customers integrate with corporate directory like Active Directory. This helps eliminate user administration in FlexDeploy. In addition, FlexDeploy customers have also requested support for Single Sign-On (SSO) and Multi Factor Authentication (MFA). Let’s review these terms first. Single Sign-On – once …
FlexDeploy 5.3.0.1 has been released and includes enhancements to platform features, plugins, usability improvements, and bug fixes. Here are a few items to highlight: A new Report for FlexDeploy user group assignments and global permissions , adding ease to user management and administration. UX improvements such as linking to product documentation from with the FlexDeploy …
In a previous post I demonstrated how to quickly get a FlexDeploy installation up and running with Oracle Kubernetes Engine. The approach, while quick, simply won’t scale in the long run. Anything from a new user not knowing the process or deploying the wrong image tag could hinder your deployments. Because of these issues we …
Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) is a Developer Service in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure that expedites the provisioning and managing of 1 or more Kubernetes Clusters. In effect, this allows deploying and running an application on a cloud provided K8s engine a snap. To demonstrate just how quick it can be the following post is …
Tracking metrics to measure performance is a fundamental best practice of DevOps. After all, how can you know if DevOps is working, or measure progress toward goals, without benchmarking and tracking metrics? Monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) is critical, to understand how successful your existing DevOps processes are, and to identify areas for improvement. Use …
The following is a brief summary of the information covered in the webinar: DevOps and CI/CD On-Prem vs the Cloud, which can be accessed here. On-Prem or the Cloud? The answer: Yes! Both! All of the above! At Flexagon, we like to think of it as solve problems where you are today, improve your processes …
The following is a brief summary of the information covered in the webinar: FlexDeploy for Oracle E-Business Suite and Cloud, which can be accessed here. A Shifting IT Landscape The IT landscape is shifting to feature more agile, continuous, and automated processes, increasingly on the Cloud. Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) is an interesting ERP as …
In Part I of this series, we saw the value in adding webhooks for managing builds at the project level. In this blog article, we will examine a thorough example for managing releases based on Jira and Bitbucket events. By the end, Jira webhooks will be configured to manage release life cycle and packages in …
Does your current development process involve constantly going back and forth updating statuses between applications? Do your developers have to initiate a build after they make changes, or wait until source control is polled for the build to initiate? Do you feel like you are manually configuring many parts of your release as changes are …
Security is an essential aspect in today’s development life cycle. Unfortunately, application security has usually been an afterthought, but not anymore. By adopting the philosophy of DevSecOps you can automate these security tasks and ensure fast and safe code delivery. Security protocols that are part of the development process allow development teams to take advantage …