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Kobee from IKAN has recently been made avialable as an ESA offering combining WAZI and Kobee.
IBM Wazi as a Service provides self-serve access to z/OS systems, it enables developers to spin up a z/OS dev and test virtual server on the IBM Cloud in just a few minutes. Shorter development and testing cycles help development teams to respond faster to business needs and improve software quality. Once the code quality is assured it is committed to the Version Control Repository.
Kobee provides DevOps (CI/CD) and Toolchain Orchestration for the z/OS environment, it monitors the Version Control Repository and will upon codebase change initiate compile and promote processes according to the life cycle of the project. The DevOps processes will run on the on-premise production mainframe.
Modernizing mainframe development implies using a DevOps solution that supports this modern way of working. Modern DevOps enables you to:
A modern DevOps solution accommodates both the Business and IT departments' requirements.
More info: https://wazi.kobee.io/
SOME DEVOPS TOOLS ARE:-
Instead of focusing on just one of these popular source code control tools (GitLab, GitHub, and Bitbucket), we decided to quickly show the overall value of Git as a DevOps tool. GitHub is often thought of as the best place for developers to share open-source projects and collaborate around shared repositories. While GitLab and Bitbucket are purpose-built for the enterprise, helping engineers across disciplines deploy, test, release, and ship code faster and more reliably. The main difference between Git and other version control systems is the way it tracks your filesystems, recording any changes made to the system at a given time. Git is crucial for alignment between all development and IT teams, leading to more visibility into development pipelines and more communication across engineering teams.
Ansible allows DevOps and IT teams to automate setups, updates, restarts, and other maintenance regarding application and infrastructure components. This eliminates a lot of human error and saves a lot of time spent manually configuring systems and CI/CD pipelines. Ansible’s configuration management and IT orchestration can connect to hundreds of other integral tools in your CI/CD pipeline, leading to faster development and more resilient applications and services.
While Ansible focuses a lot on automation and ease of use for configuration management, Jenkins is highly focused on the CI/CD pipeline and building out robust deployment automation. Both Ansible and Jenkins are open-source automation servers and can be used for reliable CI/CD pipelines, app deployments, and configuration management – but a large number of team structures, you could find yourself needing to use both tools for different reasons.
Chef uses an imperative language for configuration management. This allows for greater customization and essentially gives DevOps and IT teams the ability to program every aspect of their nodes. However, the ability to customize too much can lead to highly complex, unnecessary procedures and tech debt. Chef is a more friendly configuration management and CI/CD tool for developers but can often be hard to handle for more traditional IT operations teams.
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