Easy to use and powerful release management product. Needs minor improvement...
Rating: 9 out of 10
April 22, 2022
Vetted Review
Verified User
2 years of experience
XL Release or digital.ai is being used in or organization for release management and deployment purpose. All DevOps engineer gets access based on the project they are working upon and configures their releases as per need for deployments and manage via the release management process. The tool has a great gating/approval process with integration to many tools like Ansible, Jenkins, Jira, etc.
- Release Management
- Gating or Approval Process
- Integration with other CI-CD tools via plugins
- Good tool with easy to use UI
Cons
- Pagination of data - across tool.
- User Roles Management API can be improved.
- Case insensitive ID's are treated differently making user face login and access issues.
- Dependency on Universal template/custom plugins creation should be reduced.
- Code versioning of templates is very difficult.
- Better error handling.
- Futures Timeout Issues.
- Release management
- Approval or Gating system
- Security in deployment automation tasks
- Positive - Faster deployments.
- Positive - Better tracking on progress of each release.
- Negative - Data once goes beyond a limit, pagination and data load take a toll on users.
- Positive - Dashboard can be customizable.
Deployment and release management can be done in various ways. But, XL Release or Digita.ai, helps in simplifying the process with predefined plugins, pre-developed security features, etc that help manage and process deployment cycles quicker and in a processed way.
Our company have premium support but still issues are faced to get proper response from support staff.
No escalation matrix clearly defined. Have to work with some particular member of support team assigned to us for escalations or upgrades. But, I would say not all are knowledgeable of their product. One simple example is we needed a universal URL for product and no support team member had the idea. From documentation, we figured what can be done to resolve the issue in their product config files.
No escalation matrix clearly defined. Have to work with some particular member of support team assigned to us for escalations or upgrades. But, I would say not all are knowledgeable of their product. One simple example is we needed a universal URL for product and no support team member had the idea. From documentation, we figured what can be done to resolve the issue in their product config files.
Yes
Yes, issues with product are resolved in some exchanges but not as expected.
I wish I could add something here. I did not like the support. Support for many other organizations is good like Liquidbase, RedHat, Jenkins, etc.
- release management
- approvals
- template management
- user management
- pagination
- Access to folder is not managed properly in design tab