Chapter 6. Portal Build, Deployment, and Release Management

This chapter covers the best practices in portal build, deployment, release, and configuration management. Portal code needs to be built, packaged, deployed, and promoted from one environment to the other. In the case of A2Z Bank, portal code goes from development workstations to the cloud development environment, to system test, integration test, staging, and performance before it goes live into the cloud production. Because of the complexity of portal applications, there needs to be a mature, repeatable, and more automated process around deployment and release coordination of portal artifacts. Aside from building and deploying of portal applications, another part of the portal administration is to provision new portal clusters and maintain them, along with business releases hosted by the portal infrastructure. We will briefly look at them as well. By the end of this chapter, we would have looked at the following:

• Build, deployment...