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Digital.ai Release

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What is Digital.ai Release?

Digital.ai Release, formerly XebiaLabs XL Release, is a release management tool designed for enterprises that enables users to control and track releases, standardize processes, and bake compliance and security into software release pipelines. As a release orchestration tool, Digital.ai Release works specifically for continuous delivery, and enables teams across an organization to model and monitor releases, automate tasks within IT infrastructure, in order to cut release times and improve release processes.

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Easy to use and powerful release management product. Needs minor improvement...

Incentivized
Verified User
Team Lead in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros

  • 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.

Most Important Features

  • Release management
  • Approval or Gating system
  • Security in deployment automation tasks

Return on Investment

  • 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.

Alternatives Considered

CloudBees Jenkins Platform, Liquibase, Jira Software, Bitbucket and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Other Software Used

CloudBees Jenkins Platform, Bitbucket, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Liquibase

Usability

XL release coordinates multi-group release actions

Incentivized
Kenneth DickView profile
System Architect in Information Technology at Valpak (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Cross-team release workflow control using email, texts, scripts allow our release management to be truly a 360 process.
  • XL Release allowing our Jenkins toolchain to control the beginning of release trains which is very powerful.
  • XL release allows us to expose the business process flow for anyone to read direct at the source which runs the process instead of a separate vision.

Cons

  • XL release is really only missing a consolidated calendar view where you can see the planned activity for the next month, it only knows about what is in progress.

Return on Investment

  • XL release has improved our consistency of release process, removing multiple days worth of manual status checking and coordination.
  • XL release has allowed us to increase the number of beta releases we can support due to simplifying our release actions.

Alternatives Considered

Micro Focus Change Management