Kwatee

KwateeSDCM allows for easy deployment and configuration management of software and repositories over a multitude of servers.

It eases the instantiation of various configurations in a test environment or production server.

What is new in this release:

• Enhancements:
• New and more responsive user interface
• Great improvement on UI performance for larger archives (10x-15x faster)
• Command line deployment configuration is independent from artifact packages
• Command line deployment xml configuration can be managed outside kwatee
• kwatee-maven-plugin download_installer goal (see doc)
• Possible to provide ssh key by path
• Bug fix:
• Special characters (!~* etc.) supported for custom variable prefix
• Inline default empty value, e.g. %{var=} (empty value) which is not same as %{var} (<undefined>), are now supported
• Some tar archive uploads cause a "500 Internal Error" (Error detected parsing the header)

What is new in version 2.3.0:

• An new experimental User Interface that improves usability but also responsiveness and performance.
• An extensive JSON Rest API with Python and Java client libraries.
• An improved deployment mechanism.
• Stability improvements.

What is new in version 2.2.1:

• Kwatee now uses an H2 embedded database by default.
• A new command line deployer enables deployment to multiple servers within a datacenter in command line mode.
• There were also user interface improvements and many other enhancements.

What is new in version 2.1:

• There are great improvements in the creation and definition of variables.
• A notable enhancement is the introduction of the Version Variable panel which shows all the variables that are used either in archive files or actions and makes it possible to define default values which can be overriden in deployments.

What is new in version 2.0:

• New:
• Major user interface revamping
• Server pools to deploy load-balanced web applications
• Dynamically defined Amazon EC2 server pools
• Agent for AIX servers
• Python helper scripts for command-line operations
• Option to enforce sequential server deployments
• Pre-deploy/post-deploy and pre-undeploy/post-undeploy version actions.
• Pre-setup/post-setup and pre-cleanup/post-cleanup deployment actions
• Multi-line actions
• Versions without archives (only action execution)
• Experimental support for telnet/ftp deployments (mainly for windows servers)
• Support paraphrase for ssh private key login
• Enhancement:
• Off-line installation
• Improved REST interface
• Removed dependency on third-party library for python automation
• Improved ant automation
• Server-wide status in deployment operations
• Overall stability and consistency improvements

What is new in version 1.3.1:

• Fixed an important bug which caused new installation to require an upgrade script which did not exist.
• Added remove (uninstall) environment option to rest interface and ant task.

What is new in version 1.3.0:

• Added Ant task for integrating deployment phases in Java applications/Web apps.
• Modified REST service parameters to improve start/stop/deploy granularity (package/server level).
• Various bug fixes.

What is new in version 1.1.1:

• This is a minor release.
• Community License no longer requires registration and key.

What is new in version 1.1.0:

• Fixed compatibility issue with Tomcat 6+.
• Further simplified setup process. Web application is now fully self-contained.
• Added built-in version info support (see Documentation).
• Added support for non-compressed local directory.
• Prevent version used in a frozen deployment from being edited (must duplicate & edit).

What is new in version 1.0.1:

• Prevent version used in a frozen deployment from being edited (must duplicate & edit).