SailPoint SSB Deployment Services

Introduction Of SailPoint Services Standard Build (SSB)

Deploying changes to IdentityIQ in projects can frequently feel time-consuming and prone to errors. SSB is useful in this situation. It is a framework created by SailPoint to standardise and automate the IdentityIQ environments' build and deployment procedures.

What is SSB?

The acronym for Services Standard Build is SSB. We can build, package, and deploy everything we require in SailPoint IdentityIQ. Changes to IdentityIQ, such as adding a new application, creating a rule, or altering the user interface, typically require moving the changes to other environments, such as UAT or Production.

This frequently requires manual steps in the absence of SSB:

• Export XML’s from Dev, log in to Test , import XML’s file separately, restart server.

• This procedure can make mistakes, and may result in configuration files missing with Apache Ant, reads instructions from a file called build.xml, automates these processes with SSB.

• Consider it an exact recipe: "Pick these files, create a WAR file, launch it, import these configurations."

• All of the work is done for you by commands like ant deploy and ant import, and everything is arranged into the appropriate folders (config/, src/, web/, etc.).

• The SailPoint team came up with  SSB for deployments across various environments. As part of a DevOps process, it integrates easily with Git, enabling teams to push code changes and deploy them.

Why Use SSB?

It's possible that many of you have done manual deployments in IIQ, which involve exporting XML files from Dev and importing into Test or Production.

example:

When we update any application in Dev and create a new workflow. And  export just the rule and forget about the application, and it doesn't function properly when imported into UAT.

SSB eliminates these issues by providing

1. Avoiding Manual Errors

A single command, such as ant import-all, imports everything automatically, and all changes are saved in the folders. Nothing is overlooked.

2. Repeatable Process

The same package can be transferred to UAT and Production after testing it in Dev. The procedure is consistent.

3. Automated
Ant scripts automate the entire process:
Creating the WAR file, deploying it to Tomcat, importing all XML configuration files, and, if necessary, executing database scripts. You now run one or two commands in place of five to ten manual steps.

4. Compatible with Git
Teams can:

• Work with multiple features at once in git

• Check  who did changes in code

• Examine changes before deployment.

5. Improved Management
You can always see:

• The configurations in the deployed version

• File modifications between all builds

• Which branch of Git was used.

6. Conserves Time
Previously 30-minute manual deployments can now be finished in few minutes.

Tools Inside SSB

Apache Ant

Ant reads build.xml and performs tasks sequentially like,

• Building a WAR file, then importing configs, deploying the WAR file to the Tomcat webapps folder and running DB scripts.

Example: ant import-all executes these steps automatically.

Conclusion

SSB transforms IdentityIQ deployment from a risky manual process into a reliable, automated, and repeatable workflow. By using Ant scripts and Git integration, teams can create deployments quicker and more dependable.  it is an essential DevOps tool for maintaining IdentityIQ environments.