Why AL-Go service?
The AL-Go service by Global Mediator is a powerful teamplay of our expertise in using AL-Go – DevOps tooling from Microsoft and vast experience in Business Central.
With AL-Go under the hood, our tech team automates DevOps tasks more efficiently and times faster with rapid reactions to any changes in the requirements on the customer’s side.
At the core of AL-Go
At its core, AL-Go is an open-source framework with outstanding functional flexibility that easily adapts to specific customer needs. It is a powerful set of actions and templates that enrich and automate many of the CI/CD steps, like installation control and maintaining your applications in AppSource.
With AL-Go, we keep the repositories (whether for PTEs or for AppSource applications) with customers’ solutions updated. In a nutshell, this is the way we speed up the development process many times by running specific workflows (automatic, manual, or scheduled execution) and script changes that handle new features and functions in BC. What is more, you easily keep your stable DevOps setup based on the actions that your repository has been using all the time.
What is the AL-Go service about?
✔ Simplified CI/CD for Business Central projects with reduced time for deployment: customers can see the changes they ask for within hours.
✔ Simplified version control process: automatically publishing new versions of your product on AppSource.
✔ Available for Business Central PTEs or AppSource apps on GitHub.
✔ Better issue tracking and collaboration within teams.
✔ Enhanced deployment (automated releases to test environments and gated deployment to production environments).
✔ Enhanced scalability: deploying to 100 environments is as fast as deploying to one.
✔ Easily checking for compatibility with future versions of BC: getting ready for major and minor updates from MS.
✔ Outstanding testing capabilities: running Test Codeunits for the BC apps and extensions via AL-Go virtual machines; scheduled run of Test Codeunits at any time of CI/CD.
Anastasiia Sakhnenko
Product Owner at Global Mediator
Let's discuss your expectations and preferences in a 1:1 meeting. We will cover all your specific needs and come up with the best way to enhance your infrastructure. A live discussion is a great option if you do not exactly know what is the right choice to optimize your IT infrastructure – be it diversified solutions, a stack of technologies, or third-party services.
AL-Go in post-migration to Business Central cloud
After migrating to the Business Central cloud, AL-Go becomes essential for efficiently automating DevOps tasks.
At Global Mediator, AL-Go is available both as a stand-alone service and as a vital element of step 8 of our Stairway to Cloud offering, which combines different packages to accelerate the move from older versions of NAV/BC to the latest Business Central cloud version.
Within Stairway to Cloud, AL-Go ensures rapid adaptation to changing customer requirements to easily and smoothly enhance your Business Central environment.
The AL-Go service is only available for the cloud and is a great addition to the entire migration process, driving continuous optimization and business growth.
Implementation options
By default, we leverage AL-Go for BC development projects on GitHub, but there are alternative ways of implementation. The solution could be used along with other hosting services, if necessary.
As a stand-alone service, AL-Go can be implemented in 3 ways. Please consider the following options to find the perfect match for your case and the tech stack you exploit.
Advantages of the service
As part of Stairway to Cloud, AL-Go optimizes your BC cloud for peak performance and scalability.
Proven technologies under the hood boosted by the best practices of software development.
Flexible approach to each specific customer case.
Security of confidential information.
Pricing that is transparent and easy to understand.
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