ZeroTurnaround, Estonia based IT software company, has just announced the availability of LiveRebel 2.6, a software designed to eliminate server downtime when initiating updates to running applications.

Some of the new features of LiveRebel 2.6 include following:

• Support for applications built using Java, PHP, Python, PERL and Ruby;
• Database updates and version control;
• Multiplatform updates that enable teams to release applications built using multiple platforms and databases across many unlike environments;
• Property management for deploying a single release onto several;
• Application and server health monitoring.

LiveRebel exists at the end of the development framework allowing operations to take builds from development, test them, and then deploy them seamlessly. ZeroTurnaround’s Product Manager, Krishnan Badrinarayanan, recently had an interview about LiveRebel 2.6 launch, where he talked about the unique features of the product and its working approach as a test and release tool. Here’s what he has to say about the LiveRebel,

“When you think about releasing apps, CI tools can be thought of as scripting on steroids. You can do anything with them, but you have to code and maintain it all. They do not have knowledge about your environment, configuration, database or anything else. They just trigger and execute tasks one after another and log success or failure. LiveRebel approaches this differently. It knows everything about your environment – which servers are running, and which apps and versions are deployed. It manages and versions properties specific to environments. It understands and versions database and environment changes.

LiveRebel is a release automation tool that also integrates with popular CI tools. However, if the team were to use a CI tool like Jenkins, Hudson or Bamboo, they can install the LiveRebel plugin and create deployment tasks that would hand off deployment to LiveRebel. LiveRebel would then deploy the release – code, DB and conf, all together – onto selected environments with no downtime and in a failsafe manner.”

With advanced monitoring capabilities, the new LiveRebel provides the key metrics to monitor the server and application health. It is free for up to 2 managed servers. Any additional managed servers can be acquired at $420 per year.