Design and Qualitative Assessment of Environment Build and its Automation

Abstract

DevOps is an integral part of every software company, including Oracle Retail. The Environment Creation Team here has major responsibilities of providing the infrastructure for the Development, Quality Assurance and Production teams for development, testing and further deployment of their Enterprise Applications. The infrastructure is provided in the form of Environments. For each Environment certain number of servers need to be build which commonly include setting up the DB (Database) Server, SFTP (SSH File transfer protocol) Server, IDM (Identity Management) Server, APP (Application Server) Server. Environment Creation Services (ECS) Team while building each server takes care of setting up of Operating System with pre requisites, Installation and configuration of Oracle Fusion Middleware Products, Implementation Single Sign On configuration for Oracle Retail Products, Installing of Retail Merchandising Applications. This work contribution to Environment Creation Team by designing the Single Sign On for Environments and doing qualitative analysis of manual Build as well as automated builds, verifying and validating advantages of automation over the manual build. The work done is for the internal purposes of the Environment Creation Team, subject to the Oracle Copyright.