Hi,
I am trying to figure out how can I automate the entire build process for the "entire solution", including the operating system, that we develop and test and later deploy. Let me first say that we have a very complex envieroment and we dont have good process engineering.....
Let me explain a little what we have and what I need.... We currently use Ant and Subversion for build automation of many of our applications. This automated build only looks at changes that are related to the software that we've developed. It then triggers the build process and lets us know if there is an issue with any of the applications. Also, the build happens in a machine that often times does not get updated with patches, clusters, etc. So, most of the time we catch problems with the application at this stage. However, our problem is when we burn the build and bring it to the "for the record test envieroment" where the baseline operating system is different than the development envieroment and may have also changed since the last time we tested meaning a patch, a cluster, a new package was added. So when its time to do the "for the record test" of the applications we find a problem that has nothing to do with the sofware and its purly envieromental. So, what I'd like to do is to somehow make the OS build part of the overall Ant build process. It does not have to be with Ant, I am open to suggestions. We can use VMWare for virtualizing the OS if its needed. Any help will be apreciated.
Thanks,
Pepino125
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