Release Management: Take the uncertainty out of software deployment

Release management is often that part of the software development lifecycle which has the entire team chewing its nails. If your release process goes wrong, your software isn't making you money, and your teams aren't working on new features. But deploying software needn’t be a hit-or-miss affair. Cruise, the continuous integration and release management tool from ThoughtWorks, takes care of your release management process and ensures hassle-free software release.

Manage your release process

Software release can be a painful, time-consuming, expensive and error-prone process. Get control of your release process by managing it through Cruise. Put Cruise Agents on your environments, and have Cruise promote builds to those environments at the push of a button.

Release management system from Cruise: Releasing software can be a painful, time-consuming, expensive and error-prone process. Get effective release management, build management, build automation using the software release process in Cruise

Promote builds manually

Model your release workflow with pipelines

Cruise, the release management system, harnesses the simple but powerful concept of deployment pipelines. A pipeline configuration is like a workflow; use it to define the stages that a set of modifications must pass through, such as:

A “commit” stage which compiles the software and runs unit tests
Functional and performance test stages
Stages for each of your testing environments, and even
Staging and production stages

See your pipeline history

Fully automated, auditable deployment

See which build is in which environment, and promote builds on demand to the environment where they are needed at the click of a button. Cruise integrates with LDAP and ActiveDirectory, so you can see who promoted each build, allowing you to audit every change to your environment.

Cruise takes care of...
Multi-platform Testing	Manage your testing platforms with Cruise Agents that require zero configuration.
Dependency management	Have Cruise trigger dependent builds automatically. Share artifacts between stages and pipelines.
Continuous Integration	Integrate your team's work frequently and use automated builds to detect integration errors in time.