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Ensure low-risk application migrationTrigence Solutions:
Overview
The Problem — The initial installation process is when applications first start to grow their roots into the underlying OS. Any installation typically involves the placement of not only an application's binary files but also a host of other application-specific files. These files are placed throughout the file system, and are located in various places depending on which distribution and version of the OS is used.
| ACM Category | Without Trigence | With Trigence |
| Install | Applications and OS are intertwined with no boundaries between the two as the installation process puts files throughout the OS, essentially rooting it to a specific system. | All files required to run an application are placed within an Application Capsule. Application Capsules are therefore discretely manageable objects isolated from the OS with explicit boundaries. The location of each element required by the application is predictable and stable. |
| Configure | Every time an application is to be deployed, a new re-configuration process must be completed following the installation. | Once an application is installed and configured as you wish, it can be redeployed at any time via a simple copy process, and that copy results in a perfectly-configured application that is immediately able to run in a known-good state. |
| Update (System) | System updates are important for the overall health of a system, but often there is incomplete information about all of the changes introduced and how those changes will interact with the important applications on a system. | Application Capsules, which are isolated environments in which to run applications, cannot be negatively impacted by System updates. |
| Update (Application) | Application updates can have unpredictable effects on the underlying system, and it can be difficult to roll back applications to pre-update states when required. Usually this means installing and configuring a single-purpose system just for purposes of testing a particular update. | Application Capsules may be easily cloned and will run immediately (in perfect state) on a test system. Updates may be performed and tested very quickly in the Capsule environment and once the update has been validated, the new version can be deployed immediately, without further reconfiguration, in the production environment. |
| Install, Configure, Update | Every process performed to manage an application (e.g., deploy, move, update, etc.) must be uniquely performed based on the requirements of the application. | Processes used to manage applications are standardized independent of application details. |
| Monitor | Organizations must generally infer the health and performance of applications through the use of proxy variables. | Trigence AE gives you the ability to monitor the health of an application directly. All of this information is available directly via the command-line interface, or programmatically through the SOAP interface. |
| Audit | Software audit procedures in highly-regulated environments can be time consuming and difficult. The validity of each revision of an application must be demonstrated upon request, which requires an extensive process to successfully complete. | Application Capsules can be stored indefinitely and run following nothing more complicated than a simple copy procedure, so demonstrating a system's validity is a straight-forward and very quick procedure. |
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