Have you ever been responsible for the installation of a software which should be distributed and installed on myriad set of execution environments with equally diverse sets of configuration in a department where machines are constantly being cleaned and re-imaged? Picture a situation where you are supporting various configurations and levels of your module. Rather than spending hours installing by hand, wouldn't it be great to have a way to automate the installation process so that you could just kick it off, go and get coffee, come back, and have it all installed and ready? Call it 'Push Button' automation :) (Please bear with me for throwing newer phrases)
Strange as it might seem but this hand-made configuration is proving to be a nightmare of sorts.. one might feel exhausted with out really having any sense of accomplishment by solving petty issues which should not really have come up. High time one must set up;
- standardized installation set up
- provide application diagnostics which must enable operations team to solve small issues in time.
Time again Apache ANT comes to my rescue.
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