Bombardier Change Management System

A common question that comes up around Bombardier is: Why develop another package management system when we have tools like dpkg, rpm, and InstallShield as well as their package managers like yum, up2date, and apt?

Let's take one of the most common and mature package managers out there for example, apt. How does Bombardier provide value in comparison to what apt already delivers?

Bombardier is a software system that delivers visibility, control and automation to datacenter environments. Bombardier provides a means for changes to be rolled out to a network of Linux and Windows servers in a highly controlled way, providing optimum security, logging, centralized change control.

What happens when systems you're responsible for go offline?

• Do you get paged?
• Are you part of a team that needs to respond immediately?
• Are your products or services potentially at risk?
• If your job or livelihood at risk?

If the answer is yes to any of these questions, then Bombardier may be for you. Bombardier makes application deployment, minor changes, and routine maintenance much more reliable and secure. It also provides you with a degree of insight into the changes that are going on within your production datacenter that you may have never seen before.