Application Lifecycle Automation

An application lifecycle consists of several phases. Typically, these phases are development, testing and production. Each phase takes place in a different environment that uses different servers. However, the connectivity definitions remain exactly the same:

• Starting from the development phase, the connectivity includes most services and network objects required by the application.
• In all phases, the connectivity requires the same firewall rules.

The main difference between these environments is that the same network objects need to connect to different servers: development, testing or production. Therefore, whenever you migrate your application to a new environment, you must reassign the IP addresses of all network objects used in your connections. This process can be time-consuming, cumbersome and error-prone, especially because you need to repeat it whenever you update and remigrate your application.

Another challenge of moving between environments is to make sure you enforce the relevant security approval process. For example: When you move from the testing environment to the production environment, you need to use a stricter security approval process.

SecureApp helps you handle such challenges by automating the application lifecycle. SecureApp guides you through the first migration process, and then saves your settings and automates all subsequent remigrations.