Best Release Management Software for Chef

Continuous delivery of any application to any environment. IBM DevOps Deploy (formerly IBM UrbanCode Deploy) is an application-release solution that combines continuous delivery and deployment automation with robust visibility, traceability and auditing capabilities. Increase frequency of software delivery through automated, repeatable deployment processes across development, testing and production. Simplify the deployment of multichannel applications to all environments, whether on premises or in the cloud, with consistency and repeatability. Use a single centralized server to manage tens of thousands of endpoints to any number of clouds, data centers or mainframes. Make processes more robust and easier to design by using tested integrations with dozens of tools and technologies, including Jira, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Microsoft, ServiceNow and WebSphere.

JFrog Pipelines empowers software teams to ship updates faster by automating DevOps processes in a continuously streamlined and secure way across all their teams and tools. Encompassing continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), infrastructure and more, it automates everything from code to production. Pipelines is natively integrated with the JFrog Platform and is available with both cloud (software-as-a-service) and on-prem subscriptions. Scales horizontally, allowing you to have a centrally managed solution that supports thousands of users and pipelines in a high-availability (HA) environment. Pre-packaged declarative steps with no scripting required, making it easy to create complex pipelines, including cross-team “pipelines of pipelines.” Integrates with most DevOps tools. The steps in a single pipeline can run on multi-OS, multi-architecture nodes, reducing the need to have multiple CI/CD tools.

Digital.ai Release (formerly XebiaLabs XL Release) is a release management tool specifically for CD. It enables teams across an organization to model & monitor releases, automate tasks within IT infrastructure, and cut release times by analyzing and improving release processes. Automate, orchestrate and get visibility into your release pipelines – at enterprise scale. Manage the most advanced release pipelines with ease. Plan, automate, and analyze the entire software release pipeline. Control and optimize software delivery. Always know the status of automated and manual steps across the release pipeline. Identify bottlenecks, reduce errors, and lower the risk of release failures. Monitor your entire release pipeline to get a clear view and up-to-date status information across tools and systems, from code to production. Customize dashboards to highlight the most important information for each release.

A complete software delivery management solution engineered to improve time-to-value. Plutora provides you with a control tower overseeing the entirety of your software delivery people, processes, and tools independent of methodology, automation, or tool vendor. Systematically improve your digital transformation journey scaling Agile and DevOps across the enterprise. Visualize and map your value streams. Utilize data from key systems for metrics such as cycle time, lead time & process time. Coordinate initiatives and changes across the portfolio organizing dependencies for releases. Plan, coordinate and orchestrate releases and associated IT resources. Schedule, coordinate and orchestrate pre-production environments for usage in any delivery pipeline. Plan, track and orchestrate execution of production cut-over activities. Manage your “Kaizen” at every stage of delivery. Interconnect your key systems, transform data through a wide variety of methods.