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CloudBees buys ReleaseIQ DevOps orchestration platform

Enterprise software delivery company CloudBees Inc. today announced it has acquired ReleaseIQ, a low-code software-as-a-service release orchestration solution for DevOps teams that will help extend the company’s current software delivery solutions.

CloudBees develops the popular Jenkins continuous integration and delivery platform that automates code development and deployment pipelines. This is part of a practice known as DevOps, which combines developer and information technology teams into a continuous lifecycle in order to speed up software delivery.

Using these practices, teams can release features quickly, with fewer bugs, by testing code as it’s released to detect and recover from errors before they affect customers. The concept behind CloudBees’ platform is to empower developers to streamline the path from idea to production.

“The decision to acquire ReleaseIQ was rooted in three core beliefs: choice, visibility and continuous value,” said Anuj Kapur, president and chief executive of CloudBees. “First, businesses need to empower developers by providing a choice of tools versus forcing a toolset. Second, as DevSecOps matures, it is no longer acceptable to have a limited view of your software delivery ecosystem. And lastly, the future of business is rooted in the ability to continuously deliver innovation to the customers you serve.”

ReleaseIQ allows DevOps teams to fully orchestrate release pipelines with built-in tools and a no-code composer that works with a multitude of pre-existing continuous integration technologies including CloudBees CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, TeamCity and Bamboo. It also works with continuous delivery technologies such as ArgoCD or custom-built deployment tools.

Using the platform, development and operations teams can also receive increased visibility into their entire deployment lifecycle and see the status of every step from code to release. It allows for troubleshooting of failures without leaving the platform and collaboration across the entire team via an easy-to-use dashboard that keeps everyone on the same page.

For CloudBees’ customers, one of the biggest benefits will be ReleaseIQ’s availability as a SaaS and cloud-native solution, Shawn Ahmed, chief marketing officer at CloudBees explained during a media event.

“It’s SaaS and it’s hybrid,” Ahmed said. “We didn’t have that before. We have customers that speak to us that they have very different needs, some are software only, some are SaaS, some say they are hybrid and some are somewhere in between. We believe this will give our customers the ability to run their workloads any way that they desire.”

Using ReleaseIQ’s model, customers will be able to run completely in the cloud, using a hybrid model, or behind a firewall entirely on-premises. Combined with current CloudBees release deployment technology, it opens up a whole new way for companies to implement DevOps orchestration out of the box in the manner that they choose with the tools and architecture that they have on hand.

“The big takeaway here is that ReleaseIQ advances a SaaS and cloud-centric customer model.  However, we are maniacally focused on the needs of customers who often have very different use cases that stem from the same problems,” Ahmed told SiliconANGLE. “Almost every software delivery team is struggling with complexity caused by multiple-point solutions and software delivery practices. They want to implement repeatable workflows that include best practice governance policies, but they don’t want to compromise a developer’s freedom to use the tools of their choice.”

The DevOps market exceeded $7 billion in 2021, according to a Global Markets Insights report that projected that it would reach $30 billion by 2028. The same report cited growth in collaboration tools and the need to reduce software development cycles to release features more quickly.

This latest acquisition is the latest of a series of purchases that the company has made to bolster its DevOps platform including CodeShip and Electric Cloud, both of which it integrated into its software delivery platform, as well as Neuralprints, which it used to build CloudBees Compliance.

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