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Continuous Integration as a Service Beta Now Available

Deploy working software at the click of a button

We are pleased to announce the release of our CI as a Service product from Stelligent. Using Continuous Integration as a Service, you get running with CI along with a complete development environment stack in minutes and manage it. Moreover, you have full unfettered access to the instance. You can start and stop fully configured virtual instances at any time.

The tool installs and configures the Hudson CI server, MySQL database, Subversion, Ant, Maven, Java and all other necessary tools to create and manage working software at the click of a button. It also runs a one-click build and deployment of working software from source code. At Stelligent, we use the CI as a Service to create working software from our SVN version-control repository - on demand.

See the video that demonstrates how to start using CI as a Service. The basic steps are:

1. Click the "Try it Out" button from the Stelligent website.
2. Enter your email address and password and click the Give me CI button.
3. Review the price information and click the Purchase button
4. You will receive an confirmation page. From this page, you can click the Download Key button to download your private key to access your virtual instance or monitor your CI instances.
5. In about 15 minutes, you will receive an email with links to your provisioned virtual instance and running Hudson Continuous Integration server

At this point, you have a fully-configured CI environment. Moreover, you have full access to this instance to configure as you please. No need to negotiate with your Systems/Operations team or wait for them to provision an environment. Build and deploy your software in a clean environment at a moment's notice. Sign up for the beta of CI as a Service and let us know your experiences with it.

CI as a Service is a product and accompanying service offering from Stelligent. Our CEO literally wrote the book on Continuous Integration. We are passionate about helping our customers automate the entire software delivery process to get software to users more quickly.

Video: Use a Continuous Integration server - with Hudson

It's been a while since I posted new videos to http://integratebutton.com/, but here's a new one on Using a CI server (with Hudson). This video demonstrates the Use a CI server practice from the book, Continuous Integration: Improving Software and Reducing Risk.

I don't spend any time in this video "discussing" the why behind CI, just how to get it up and running with Hudson using the example files located at http://code.google.com/p/brewery-ci/.

I cover how to use scripts I provide to download, install and configure Hudson and Tomcat, run an HSQL database, run an Ant automated build, use Subversion to manage source files and administer the Hudson web application. Please note that there is no sound in this video. I've used text throughout the video to describe what I'm doing on the screen. It lasts approximately 7 minutes. Hope you enjoy it!