We are happy to announce that CA Continuous Delivery Director is now commercially available as a service on CDDirector.io. You can try the product at the Freemium level and easily purchase online if enabling more applications and teams.
What Is Continuous Delivery Director?
CA Continuous Delivery Director is a powerful, toolchain-agnostic continuous delivery platform that enables users to automate and optimize release cycles from requirements to production, through to monitoring and continuous improvement.
With Continuous Delivery Director, you can achieve:
Reliable, continuous releases – Orchestrate and manage the pipeline to drive a virtuous circle of feedback and improvement.
Continuous testing – improve testing cycles and incorporate tests throughout every phase of the pipeline.
Continual improvement – Leverage analytics to improve processes, time-to-resolution, productivity and quality.
Key features include:
- Release Pipelines – manage the complete application delivery cycle from one place
- Toll Gates / Approval Gates – ensure governance and auditability
- Milestones – track release progress easily, and give visibility to everyone involved in the delivery toolchain
- Release Tracks – tie release functionality to a common “train” and ensure dependent functionality and business impacting features are released concurrently and on time
- Dependency Mapping – gain visibility into dependencies and resolve conflicts in the delivery pipeline
- Release Analytics – understand the complete performance of your continuous delivery processes: identify bottlenecks and understand where to optimize next
CDDirector.io represents a new delivery channel for the product, and has feature parity with the on-premises version of Continuous Delivery Director.
Leader in the Forrester Wave
CA, with the combined strength of Continuous Delivery Director and CA Automic Release Automation, has been named a Leader in the 2017 Forrester Wave: Continuous Delivery and Release Automation (CDRA).
Continuous Delivery Director plays an essential role in what Forrester is now calling the CDRA market: “The CDRA market is growing; organizations view these tools as critical building blocks of a continuous delivery and release automation pipeline. CDRA tools model, deploy, and visualize application pipelines, orchestrating existing tools. They also automate the entire delivery and release pipeline between development and production, supporting emerging use cases such as containers, microservices, test data management, and vulnerability tracking.”
New Features, New Integrations
Recently added features include SAML support (log in with your organizational account) and the ability to support cloud and hybrid pipelines (with both cloud-based and on-prem technologies).
Some other exciting, out-of-box integrations available include:
- App Experience Analytics – monitor applications to identify release impact
- Amazon AWS – deploy using CodeDeploy and Elastic Beanstalk
- BlazeMeter – run cloud-based performance tests
- FlowDock – support team collaboration – notify teams on release progress, status, errors, etc.
- JFrog Artifactory – manage artifacts– automate release execution upon placement of new artifacts in the Artifactory repository
- Kubernetes – orchestrate Docker containers
- Slack – improve team communication and collaboration
- Sauce Labs – run cloud-based UI tests
- Twistlock – secure containers for Docker and Kubernetes
- Veracode – scan for security vulnerabilities – run dynamic scans to detect security issues on changes
See more in the Integration Hub.
Flexible Pricing Tiers
CDDirector.io offers flexible pricing tiers to make best-of-breed continuous delivery orchestration and analytics available to any team. Typical set up and configuration can be done in less than one hour.
Tiers include a Freemium level to try it out, a Team level to manage one or two applications, a Business level for managing more apps and teams, and an Enterprise level with features and services to fit the largest, most complex and most demanding organizations.
It’s easy to get started as a Freemium user, which supports up to two concurrent release cycles, and then find the level that’s right for your organization.
Sign up today at https://cddirector.io/
Watch the Getting Started Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MB_2xgv564&t=4s
Or contact us directly for a demo at team@CDDirector.com.