Rolling out application updates is set to become much easier for Shippable Inc. users. The startup today launched a new iteration of its continuous deployment platform that promises to dramatically reduce the amount of effort involved in creating code release pipelines, particularly for large enterprise projects.

The arguably biggest time-saver introduced in the release is the ability to control the flow of software updates using high-level YML syntax instead of the more complex imperative scripting languages that Shippable employed until now. The addition reduces the amount of code that developers need to write, which lowers the risk of errors and thus makes code pipelines easier to maintain. Moreover, organizations can also reuse those pipelines across different types of infrastructure to streamline their operations even father.

A development team that runs its testing and production environments on two separate public clouds, for instance, can set what piece of new code should go where with just a few lines of YML. And Shippable says that the addition of multi-platform support also has the potential to ease disaster recovery efforts. Users are able to push software updates to their live workloads and remote standby copies at the same time using just a single pipeline, which helps ensure no work is lost in the event of an outage.

The entire process can be tracked through a new real-time monitoring console that is also rolling out as part of today’s update. According to Shippable, the addition is designed to help DevOps professionals identify bottlenecks and other errors that are obstructing their deployment workflows. The quicker the source of an interruption can be found, the company says, the faster operations resume. That’s a big deal for fast-moving organizations that update their services dozens or hundreds of times a day.

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