Can ControlTier handle co-deployment?
Firstly, what do we mean by co-deployment? When we say co-deployment we are referring to the scenario where an administrator would like to install several applications of the same kind on one OS instance. Co-deployment makes sense when many applications must be run but there is limited hardware to run them. Problems often occur due to collisions of software packages, configuration settings, file paths, etc. ControlTier enables and supports the co-deployment of applications. By automatic convention, each software deployment is provided its own workspace where instance specific files and directories can be maintained (e.g., logs, bins, var, etc.). Secondly, because ControlTier provides a configuration database developers and administrators can prescribe ahead of time what resources and settings each instance or class of deployment should use. In other words, co-deployment is possible as a by product of ControlTier’s ability to achieve environment abstraction for applications.
