ControlTier 3.0

ControlTier aims to be a complete enterprise-ready automation solution. It is our goal to provide the tools needed to automate the build, release, deployment, configuration, and control of distributed, multi-tier applications.
When it comes to ease of use and out of the box functionality, we havent met all of our goals yet but we are working hard to do so.
ControlTier coordinates and automates the chain of events that take place when you build and deploy a collection of integrated applications (what we call a site).
Youll use ControlTier to:
- Coordinate your build processes (interfaces with build tools like Ant)
- Manage your build artifacts and other deployable resources in a structured repository
- Coordinate the configuration, distribution, and control of the various applications that makeup a site.
Unlike most automation solutions that are focused exclusively on hardware and OS provisioning in production environments, ControlTier was built to focus on the application build and deployment processes that run all the way from Development, through QA, and into Production.
Main features:
- Framework for sequencing and coordinating automation
- Configuration management database
- Logical remote management (manage lots of things as one logical unit, no matter where they physically reside)
- GUI based development and operations tools
- Improved reuse and componentization of your existing scripts and configurations
- Change detection and configuration validation
- Application status discovery and detection
- Fine-grain access control
- Release migration tools
- Logging (with environment context built-in)
- Reporting and correlation tools
- Cross-platform support (Linux, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X, etc.)