CloudBees,
the enterprise DevOps leader powering the continuous economy, today
introduced new enhancements for its CloudBees Accelerator platform that
will help IT teams get products to market even faster. For the first
time, teams can use the industry-leading acceleration platform to burst
workloads to all three major cloud providers and shorten build and test
times for devices running the new Android Q operating system from hours
to minutes.
CloudBees
Accelerator 11.1 dramatically accelerates build, QA and testing cycles
by distributing the build over a large cluster of inexpensive servers.
Adding support for cloud bursting on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
Platform and for the development of Android Q devices, it will help
organizations get to market quicker and create more time for
experimentation and iteration.
Trying
to accelerate build and test cycles with dedicated build clouds is
inefficient. CloudBees Accelerator previously enabled developers to
burst workloads from a data center or private cloud onto an AWS cloud
platform, enabling them to cut build and test times in those
environments. Now, with support for Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud
Platform, teams can shift workloads to any of the three major cloud
providers on-demand, giving them greater efficiency and eliminating
vendor lock-in.
Meanwhile,
Android device makers are under huge time - and cost - pressures to
release new devices concurrently with Android Q, the new Android
operating system now in beta and scheduled for release in Q3 2019. Using
CloudBees Accelerator, they can shorten their build and test times to
minutes instead of hours, allowing them to get to market faster and
potentially avoid fines for releasing devices after the delivery date of
a new Android system.
CloudBees Accelerator 11.1 also includes the following new features:
- Support
for the SSL and TLS cryptographic protocols - This ensures secure
communication between EMake tools - which control executables and other
non-source files of a program from the program's source files - and
agent components, making CloudBees Accelerator public-cloud ready. This
enables security-sensitive organizations in financial services and other
vertical industries to ensure their builds aren't hacked or
intercepted.
- Improvements to CloudBees ElectrifyTM - This allows users to accelerate non-EMake build tools, such as MSBuild and Scons.
- Improvements
for the Linux Foundation's Yocto Project - The Yocto Project is an open
source project aimed at producing tools and processes that enable the
creation of Linux distributions for embedded and IoT software that are
independent of the underlying architecture of the embedded hardware.
CloudBees Accelerator enables developers to at least triple the speeds
of builds using BitBake build tools or Buildroot files and patches.
- Improvements
to out-of-the-box CloudBees Accelerator support for Windows with native
support for distributing and caching Visual Studio projects.
"Shortening
the time to market and creating more flexibility is what digital
transformation is all about," said Shawn Ahmed, vice president of
product marketing, CloudBees. "This new version of CloudBees Accelerator
enables all companies, especially Android device manufacturers, to
drive their delivery processes faster than ever. It also gives them more
flexibility to embrace multi-cloud environments by using whatever cloud
provider they choose for build and test acceleration."