Application Deployment on IBM i

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1 Application Deployment on IBM i Mike Pavlak Solution Consultant

2 Agenda Discuss architecture of and IBM i environment Explore what we use at Zend Change Management options Q&A 2

3 Disclaimer! Eric Ritchie has already done this Covered many aspects of app deployment Did a darn good job, too! Available in recorded webinar (Jan 31, 2012) Nearly all of this is applicable to IBM i Clustering not applicable. We will cover IBM i specific aspects. 3

4 Application Deployment Architecture of environments

5 What is supported vs. what can I do It s your IBM i, do with it what you will Zend supports certain things FOR A REASON!!! So what does Zend support: One single instance of Zend Server per LPAR On newer hardware, LPAR s are CHEAP and relatively easy! On older hardware, not so much (Hint: consider upgrading) 5 Insert->Header & Footer

6 Standard Environment Development Developer Solution QA Developer Solution Production Production Solution P a r t i t i o n s 6 Insert->Header & Footer

7 What do we have at Zend? Still cooking, but we have Separate LPAR s for support vs. sales team Separate LPAR s for each Zend Server version under support Separate LPAR s for each version of PHP Currently 5.2 & 5.3 PHP 5.4 somewhere down the road Single 720 with VIOS as the base OS hosting Two i6.1 LPAR s Six i7.1 LPAR s R&D is getting new machine and similar approach. 7 Insert->Header & Footer

8 Excuses I m on old hardware and can t afford two LPAR s The IT budget has been cut AGAIN I m on Power5 or V5R4 We don t have the skills We don t have the time I need isolation between my applications! 8 Insert->Header & Footer

9 Reality We never seem to have time to do it right, but we always have time to fix it Linux shops struggle with this, too In fact, they tend to be the inverse of IBM shops Don t think you have to do it on your own? Get help! Reseller Part of installation Consulting Third party to configure IBM pre-order configurations 9 Insert->Header & Footer

10 Application Deployment Change management options

11 All the majors are there! Aldon MKS Arcad Softlanding Don t reinvent the wheel, contact your CMS vendor You have probably invested heavily and they can do it! I have seen the solutions from the top 3 and they work with PHP! 11 Insert->Header & Footer

12 CMS considerations Seriously consider your options Bad habits with CMS will bring about bad habits with PHP! Opportunity to start fresh and get organized Start with your current CMS solution Then grow out to SVN, etc. Application Deployment can help with both 12 Insert->Header & Footer

13 Application Deployment Application Deployment

14 Package up applications Easily create application packages that consist of source code, metadata and scripts Deploy applications on any number of servers using a simple wizard or through a Web API Rapidly deploy application updates or remove applications from servers Use with custom or 3rd party applications, such as Magento and Drupal Please check in and see Eric s webinar 14 Insert->Header & Footer

15 Application Deployment Wrap it up

16 Webcasts March 6 Performance Tuning PHP and IBM i April 12 Stored Procedures Part II (RPG, etc.) May 2 Additional Functions of DB2 with PHP on IBM i Your thoughts??? 16 Insert->Header & Footer

17 Events where you ll find Zend User groups Status (Ft Wayne, IN) Feb 14 OCEAN (Orange County, CA) Feb 21 WMCPA (Lake Geneva, WI) Mar NEUGC (Boston, MA) April Insert->Header & Footer

18 Events where you ll find Zend (cont.) Major venues RPG & DB2 Summit (Ft. Worth, TX) Mar COMMON Annual Meeting and Expo (Anaheim, CA) May COMMON Fall Conference (Columbus, OH) Sep Insert->Header & Footer

19 Q&A 19