Webinar: "In database automation we trust"

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•Emerasoft srl•Mission•Vision•Market & Solutions

Monica BurzioGian Giacomo Ermacora

Agenda

• Principi di Continuous Delivery • Vantaggi della CD • CD per il database?• Database version control• Database deployment automation• Database impact analysis• Stopping the CD line• DBmaestro Demo• Q&A

Webinar: “In Database automation we trust”

SETTEMBRE 2015

Chi siamo

Data di nascita: 2005

Dove siamo:

via Po, 1 – Torino via del Poggio Laurentino, 118 - Roma

Creare valore per i nostri clienti implementando soluzioni

che aumentano la produttività, facilitando la collaborazione.

La nostra mission:

Alcuni clienti

DevOpsIoT

System & Software Engineering

Testing

ALM

SOAProcess Intelligence

Business Intelligence

Security

Digital Publishing

Training

ALM+PLMtraceability

standard compliance

collaboration

Big Data

BYOD

User Experience

QualityEnterprise Mobility

agileIoD

IoH

Usability

APIBPM

Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration

DevOpsIoT

System & Software Engineering

Testing

ALM

SOAProcess Intelligence

Business Intelligence

Security

Digital Publishing

Training

ALM+PLMtraceability

standard compliance

collaboration

Big Data

BYOD

User Experience

QualityEnterprise Mobility

agileIoD

IoH

Usability

APIBPM

Continuous Delivery Continuous Integration

PRESSIONI MERCATO Qualità

REQUISITI PROCESSI

ATTIVITÁ COLLABORAZIONE

DevOps

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Integration

Automatisation ContinuousAcceleration

In Database Automation

We Trust

About DBmaestro

• The leading provider of DevOps for Database• Database development and deployment automation

DevOps & CD: a must for every company

▪Every business is an IT business

▪Customers demand that you deliver new features faster− Agile Development− Process Automation− DevOps

▪Can’t wait 6 months for that next waterfall release…

▪ If you don’t, your competitor probably will

Continuous *what*?

Continuous Integration

Continuous Delivery

Continuous Deployment

!

?

What is Continuous Integration?

• Principles and practices• Been around for a while▪ Focus on streamlining development

■ Developers integrate code into shared repository■ Each check-in is verified■ Automated builds■ Automated tests■ High visibility – a feedback loop

▪ Easier & quicker to find problems, less back tracks => short integrations

And Continuous Delivery?

▪ Next step after continuous integration▪ Becoming lean, and even more Agile

■ Make sure each change is releasable • Develop-> build-> test-> move to staging-> acceptance test

■ Build a process to release with a push of a button• Deploy to production-> test production

▪ Actual deployment to production in manually actuated

=> Ensure risk mitigation and high efficiency

Continuous Delivery

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FailPass

Continuous Deployment

• Automating changes all the way to production■ Develop-> build-> test-> move to staging-> acceptance test->

deploy to production-> test production

• Makes sense for Facebook, Amazon, i.e. - for large SAAS solutions.■ A/B test new features■ Throttle traffic to new releases etc…

▪ Not for everyone…

How Do I Measure Success?

• More rapid changes• Fewer changes backed out• Better collaboration• Fewer defects

• Ultimately better service • Happy customers • Profitability

Continuous Delivery moving ahead!

▪ Recently Conducted DBmaestro Survey■ Over 350 participants

Why Continuous Delivery?

But…what about the database?

What about the database?

Down to 14% !!!

• Based on the questions they answered, only 14% from the ones reported doing CD for DB, are actually performing basic CD practices!!!

• The rest are plugging the automated process with various manual steps…

• Why?• What is so special about the database?

The Weakest Link In a Chain ???

•Old adage but true• The database is often neglected and therefore can

become the weakest link• Manual processes

•Database/Code Silos exist…• Don’t always communicate effectively• Need to follow same procedures & best practices

•Essential from a compliance and business point of view

•Should be the strongest link

The Database is a constraint

CD for the database

• In many organizations, changes to databases are not included in the CD picture

• Too much risk – seems to be very challenging

• Too little awareness of the packaging, deployment, promotion etc. concepts used for application code

• Insufficient tool support for these concepts

Manual steps in an automated process…

• At first you think: It is easy! We can handle it!

• Then your start fighting a loosing game…

• And then you have to speed up!!!

So why not move forward?

• Mistrust…

What is the problem?

Root Causes for issues:– Challenging manual version control process– Static deployments code overrides– Dynamic deployments unaware of version control– No release automation red-flags – don’t know when to stop the line…

Two isolated processes

Version Control Process (file based)

Development Process

Check-Out Script

Modify Script

Get updated Script from DB

Check-In Script

Compile

Scriptin DB

Debug

Scriptin DB

?

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A

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Version control repository is out of sync from the tested database and cannot act as a Single Source of Truth

Scripts & version control

Challenges:− Code-overrides− Working on the wrong revisions − Scripts do not always find their way to the version control solution− Out of process updates go unnoticed− Hard to locate outdated update scripts

Playing safe? What we really need: − The actual code of the object− The upgrade script− A roll-back script

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86%Rate this as a risk Factor

64%Rate this as a HIGH risk Factor

Scripts… Build Once Deploy Many

X1.11.1.11.11.21.31.41.51.61.7

Int QA Stage Prod

Database Deploy ScriptEnvironment

Re-Base (due to defects)

DevDev

DevModel

1.1 1.2

1.2 1.3

1.3 1.4

1.4 1.5

1.5 1.6

1.6 1.7

1.11.11.41.7

1.1 1.2

1.2 1.3

1.3 1.4

1.4 1.5

1.5 1.6

1.6 1.7

1.1 1.2

1.2 1.3

1.3 1.4

1.4 1.5

1.5 1.61.6 1.7

Out of Process Change

XX

XXX

? 1.1.1

X

a

a

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Scripts are static…

▪ Scripts− Hard to test in their entirely (holistically)− Hard to test due to colliding dependencies− Need to run in a specific order…− Much harder to deal with project scope changes

▪ Scripts, unless super sophisticated:− Unaware of changes made in the target environment− Time passed from their coding to the time they are run− Potentially overriding production hot-fixes or work done in parallel by

another team

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60%of those manually building scripts have

to fix or tweak them regularly as part of a deployment process

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89%Rate this as a risk Factor

60%Rate this as a HIGH risk Factor

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Gaining Trust!

Coordinated Process Traceability

Start in the Beginning

No Out-of-Process Changes

Impact Analysis

Automation

Task Based Development

Well Defined Processes

Version control: Integrated & Enforced process

Dealing with challenges…

▪Integrated Database Version Control process− Leverage proven version control best practices

• Forcing check in & out for changes• Labels• etc..

− No code-overrides− Always working with the correct revision− All changes are documented− Always know who did what, when, why and from where− No out-of-process changes

▪ No time spent on manual coding of the change scripts

1.11.21.31.41.51.61.7

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Int QA Stage Prod

Database Deploy Script

Environment* Execute the same script being executed at the Stage environment

Re-Base (due to defects)

DevDev

DevModel

1.1 1.2

1.2 1.3

1.3 1.4

1.4 1.5

1.5 1.6

1.6 1.7

1.1 1.4

1.4 1.7

1.1.1 1.7

1.11.1 1.1

1.41.7

File Based Version Control

Out of Process Change

1.1.11.7 1.1.11.7

Validate

Build & deploy on demand

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Using tools

Test cases using compare & sync tools:

An index exists in source (QA) but not in target (Production)

What should we do? Add the index or not?

Compare & sync tools

Safe to automate?Sure… (?)

Compare & sync tools

Safe to automate?No. Requires manual inspection…

Challenges…

Compare & sync tools:

▪ Are great for finding out what is out of sync

▪ Not so great for automating deployments

▪ Requires manual inspection

▪ Requires detailed knowledge regarding each change as part of the process

▪ Is unaware of any changes that occurred before the time it ran

▪ Has no knowledge of changes that took place at the target environment

▪ Unable to deal with conflicts & merges between different teams

Mistrust AGAIN… So…no automation… We fear for automating problems into production and a major risk!!!

We need to leverageknowledge from version

control

Safety net

Static script based deployment

Deploying changes if needed

Development BaselinePrevious Label /

Production Golden Copy

Production

If we had the index in the baseline => we should take it down from production…

(Deploy Change)

Or protecting target environment…

Development BaselinePrevious Label /

Production Golden Copy

Production

BUT… If no index in baseline => we should protect the NEW index on production!!!

(Protect Target)

Safe?

Simple, right?NO! we are going to BREAK production without even knowing…

Dealing with conflicts => merging changes

Conflict Resolving – Meta Data/Content

Safety Net Deployment Automation

■ Raise red flags on conflicts ■ Support out-of-process changes■ Utilize baseline aware analysis■ Understand the nature of the changes

Source vs. Baseline

Target vs. Baseline

Action

= = No Action

≠ = Deploy Changes

= ≠ Protect Target

≠ ≠ Merge Changes

Impact Analysis! not Damage Control…

Raise red flags to stop the line…if requires human intervention

Safety Net For Deployment Automation

Database Safe Deployment Automation:• Leverage one source of truth (baselines & previous revisions)

• Flexible scope (deploy multi schema to single task or work item)

• Run as a batch process (repeatable & consistent)

• Integrates to ALM (labels, CRs, Continuous Integration & Delivery)

• Deal with conflicts & merges to match code agility

Can raise red flags to stop the line…if requires human intervention

To summarize CD…

•Automate “everything”• Package the deployment of database changes along with all your other application

components to give a unified picture

•Move the process upstream• Easily promote the same package (including database changes!) from one environment to

the next, handling environment-specific differences automatically

•Create the deployment pipeline

What is DBmaestro TeamWork?

What does DBmaestro offer?Database Enforced Change Management solution

+ Database version control – for structure & content+ Enforce best practices+ Plugs into the ALM (change request, tickets & work items)+ Database merge & change impact analysis+ Know who can do what, where, when & why

DevOps Solution for databases + Baseline aware deployment automation, rollback & recovery+ Reduce database deployment issues+ Plugs into release management & Continuous Delivery

Allows you to package, verify, deploy and promote database changes just as you would do with application code…

putting you in a position to build a full delivery pipeline…

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Change Policy Enforcement – for Oracle

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…and MsSQL

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Impact Analysis & conflict resolution

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Database deployment automation,Database continuous integration & delivery

Live Demo

Q&A ?

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