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Automatic VM deployment

I have an idea to streamline deployments of prototypes within our team using VMs. The idea would be that a developer would be able to deploy their artifacts to Maven, then use a Web interface to pull them onto a development VM for integration/regression testing. They would then be able to to push those artifacts to a reference system, and finally onto production.

I'm currently thinking of doing this myself using the vSphere Java API ( http://vijava.sourceforge.net/ ), and some simple scripting to grab artifacts from the Maven repository, configuration from SVN, and then start up a JBoss server. It feels like the kind of thing that may already be available though, has anyone heard of something similar?

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Isn't it the thing that Continuous Integration is made for? We have done similar stuffs by using JetBrains TeamCity and Jira Bamboo.

splix  2010-05-25 08:58:02
Thanks for the ideas, but I'm looking in particular at application hosting rather than specifically at testing.
Robert Wilson  2010-05-25 09:28:18
And what the problem? Testing isn't a goal of CI, it's only an part of it (and of development process).We are deploying out apps after each commit (after testing).CI can: 1. gets sources from version control 2. builds app 3. test it 4. makes target artifacts (jars, zips, etc) 5. deploys/upload this artifacts to target servers
splix  2010-05-25 15:22:38

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