DevOps for OpenEdge

Thomas Hansen
Director, nodeable
thomas@nodeable.io

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● Worked with OpenEdge since forever

● Focus on Application Lifecycle Management,
Application Architecture
○ DevOps
○ Version control: Roundtable, Git
○ CI/CD
○ Automation
● Tools Development
● Technology integration
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● We do everything we can in containers!

● Worked with containers since 2015
● Worked with OpenEdge and Docker since
2015
○ Internal development, testing and production
○ Tools development and use
○ Customer implementations and PoCs

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Our work with containers

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Some of the tools we use

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DevOps

https://www.dotnettricks.com/learn/devops/what-is-devops-and-devops-advantages

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DevOps

https://www.dotnettricks.com/learn/devops/what-is-devops-and-devops-advantages

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Why DevOps?

● Break down the Silos

● Speed
● Rapid Delivery
● Reliability
● Team Collaboration
● Security
● Risk Management

https://www.dotnettricks.com/learn/devops/what-is-devops-and-devops-advantages

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Ready for DevOps?

● Version control
○ Git
○ Roundtable
○ Others
● automatable processes
● tools for automation and CI/CD
● code structure for automation & CI/CD
○ separate client / server codebase
○ only backend server code and web ui

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Ready for DevOps?

● Structured and responsive development

methodologies
○ Issue and project management
○ Agile / SCRUM
● Automated Testing
○ Unit testing (ABLUnit or similar)
○ Application testing - UI (easiest for web)
● Docker !

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Tools for DevOps

● Git
● Gitlab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps
● Roundtable TSMS + buildable
● Jenkins, RunDeck, Drone, …
● Apache Ant & PCT
● Scripts
● Docker !
○ Compose
○ Kubernetes
● AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, ...
● JIRA, ...
● Scripts
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Progress DevOps Support

● Increased support and plans for DevOps

for OpenEdge

● Docker support
○ PASOE - 11.7 & 12.x
○ Databases - 12.2

● Increasing number of scripts for DevOps

included in tooling (more prescribed
approach)
○ PASOE packaging and build scripts
○ More coming...

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Apache Ant

Apache Ant
● Common XML & Java based scripting and
automation language
● Use easily with
○ PDOSE
○ Jenkins
○ Other CI/CD tools and scripting engines - e.g.
Jenkins
○ Docker
● Used more and more by PSC with OpenEdge
Development tools
○ PDOSE
○ PASOE .war file generation
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PCT

PCT
● “PCT is a set of Ant tasks, designed to
automate work in OpenEdge environment.”
● Developed by Riverside Software
○ https://github.com/Riverside-Software/pct
● Compile ABL, create .pl files, schema
processing, ABLUnit, …
● Easy to use with Jenkins etc.
● Easy to use with Docker

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PCT tasks

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SonarLint & SonarQube

● Code analysis & Code

Quality
● Technical Debt
● Code Coverage
● Use with
○ PDOSE
○ Command line
○ Jenkins
● Support for over 20
languages

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buildable for Roundtable

RTB TSMS Automated…

Faster, Easier, Safer … Better

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 for Roundtable

● Secure REST APIs for common Roundtable

TSMS processes

● Front-end using Docker containers

● Backend OpenEdge buildable

clients
○ PASOE Server application
○ Windows client for compiles
○ OOABL RTB API & Proxy Wrapper

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buildable for Roundtable Architecture

dashboard Baselines

PASOE agent Windows agent

RTB TSMS Clients

RTB
AppServer

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Git

● Used everywhere
● Good integrations with tools
● Good support for workflows
○ Gitflow, Gitlab flow, …
● Easy to automate
● Multi-tool & platform support

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Jenkins

● build nodes on multiple platforms

● Docker
● Ant & PCT, cmd, powershell, sh/bash, ...
● Huge number of plugins
● Groovy language support for shared
libraries

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Jenkins builds & pipelines

● Collection of build stages

● Pipelines as Code
○ Groovy scripts
○ Version controlled in Git

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Jenkins - Simple pipelines

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Jenkins - Complex pipelines

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Cloud Infrastructure

● VMs and template environments

● Dev, Test, QA, Production, …

● Test application & system installs and

updates

● IaC: Infrastructure-as-Code

● Even better with Docker! ;-)

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Databases

● Automate creates and updates

● Easy spin up for unit testing, compiles,

builds and testing

● Docker? YES
○ Images with versioned templates
○ Easy creation of container stacks with other
components for different DevOps stages

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Docker!

● Enabler for many parts of modern DevOps

● Include as early as possible in the cycle

● Use images for speed and consistency in

builds, testing, deployments and updates

● Support from many tools and platforms

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Cloud build tools

● Gitlab

● Bitbucket

● Azure DevOps

● CodeFresh

● ...

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Ideal DevOps cycle

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