Clarive

One workflow for planning, change and deployment

Clarive is a DevOps tool that brings planning, change, tracking and deployment of software into one workflow. The goal is one picture of delivery that both builders and operators can read, from idea to production. The company says it was the first tool to deliver an integrated experience to both groups. Releases are planned with milestones, quality gates and schedules to match product goals, and progress is followed through stages and environments on kanban boards.

Changesets and release pipelines

Source code or any other artifact can be packaged into changesets, which then follow whatever review, test or deployment steps a team needs. Pipelines can provision infrastructure, resolve dependencies and deploy components. Build, test and deploy steps can include conditional logic, loops and event-based workflows, written in JavaScript or YAML or assembled in a drag-and-drop editor. Promotions, demotions and custom actions reflect the way a team actually delivers software, and automation and integrations can be triggered at each step.

Environments and containers

Clarive manages environments and controls deployments through rules that can be set in code or in a visual editor. Changes can be grouped and moved through different environments as individual changesets or as releases, at time slots and a pace that the team chooses. Container images can be run from any Docker registry inside a pipeline. The company says hybrid architectures, different delivery speeds and different methods can all be part of its DevOps approach, from mainframe to mobile.

Templates and editions

Templates are offered for different delivery styles. Development teams that want lean delivery can start from a template that replaces redundant tools, and operations teams can centralise delivery, coordinate silos and resolve application dependencies. The company offers an enterprise version for more complex platforms and finer control. It says the workflow is used by thousands of users who run more than a million pipeline executions a day, and that version 7 included a complete redesign of the user interface.