Application Release Automation (ARA)
Application-release automation (ARA) refers to the process of packaging and deploying an application or update of an application from development, across various environments, and ultimately to production.[1] ARA solutions must combine the capabilities of deployment automation, environment management and modeling, and release coordination.[1]
Application release automation (ARA) allows agile software development teams to collaborate in programming across workstations using version control utilities. Web server configuration for software can be standardized to deploy in containers across public cloud hardware vendors. Application release automation (ARA) speeds up the software development process with better code testing and security.[2]