Automating the Software Application Installation Processfor Distributed Systems

To install System/Application software, patch, update, system-replacement in high network traffic controlled domain with prior operating system (OS) installation following the traditional way is a long time taking and continuous manual intervention procedure. Today MultiNational Companies are working over high complicated distributed systems whose software should compute in real-time. The demand for continuous service is also increasing for these applications and it is unacceptable to restart the system during software upgrade. This paper describes how to automate the entire process of software installation and maintenance irrespective of the hardware type (Bare metal/Virtual) using the command line interface (CLI) which facilitates the reconfiguration management of the orchestration tool System Orchestration Framework (SOF). The integration of hardware health check which is considered as a pre-installation phase, application installation over the Linux operating system which is considered into the installation phase and the validation of kernel values and all the application services which is considered as the post-installation phase using the continuous integration tool Jenkins thereby drastically reduce time and human effort.