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Global Deployments with Pega Deployment Manager aaS

Ivan Anikanov, 6 minute read
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In today's interconnected business landscape, organizations increasingly need to deploy applications across multiple regions while maintaining consistency, compliance, and efficiency. A recent webinar in the Pega as-a-Service Expert Circle series explored how Pega Deployment Manager addresses these complex global deployment challenges, offering practical solutions for enterprises managing distributed development teams and worldwide customer bases.

The Power of Global Deployment Architecture

The webinar, hosted by Ivan Anikanov, Technical Solutions Director for EMEA Consulting, brought together a distinguished panel of Pega experts including Tihomir Petrovic (Principal System Architect and DevOps Evangelist), Meenakshi Nayak (Senior Manager, Cloud Product Management), Madhuri Vasa (Product Manager for Deployment Manager), and Pallavi Gurram (Architect for Deployment Manager). Together, they demonstrated how Pega's situational layer cake architecture, combined with reusability concepts, enables organizations to build common processes and rules that can be applied across global enterprises while maintaining compliance with local regulations and data residency requirements.
The session focused specifically on Deployment Manager as a Service (version 6), which is exclusively available for Pega Cloud clients and represents the strategic direction for deployment management within the Pega ecosystem. This no-code solution eliminates guesswork in merging, deploying, developing, and testing applications, ensuring high quality, stability, and faster time to market.

Two Critical Use Cases for Global Deployments

The webinar identified two primary scenarios where global deployment capabilities become essential for enterprise organizations:

Use Case 1: Reusable Application Dependencies

Organizations building applications that consume reusable components, common layers, or enterprise framework layers need to use the latest versions of their dependencies. The global deployment feature ensures that when a Center of Excellence develops and releases new versions of shared applications like "managed signing" or "sales block," consumer applications such as "customer care" or "address change" can automatically adopt these updates across all environments. This continuous adoption process maintains consistency while reducing manual coordination efforts between distributed teams.

Use Case 2: Regional Development with Global Distribution

Many development teams create applications in specific regions but serve global customer bases. Global deployment enables these teams to build applications in their primary development region—such as Frankfurt—and automatically propagate production-ready versions to other regions like London and Singapore. This approach optimizes development efficiency while ensuring global availability and compliance with regional requirements.

Practical Implementation and Real-World Benefits

The demonstration portion of the webinar showcased the practical implementation of these concepts using a hypothetical client scenario with U Plus Bank. The experts walked through the configuration process, showing how release managers can designate applications as "shared" within the Center of Excellence Route to Live, enabling automatic distribution to consuming applications across different regional Route to Lives.
Key technical capabilities highlighted include:

  • Automated Dependency Management: The system automatically publishes artifacts across Route to Lives when production-ready versions become available
  • Flexible Deployment Options: Organizations can choose between triggering adoption pipelines or deploying to single development environments
  • Comprehensive Audit Trails: Full visibility into deployment history, timestamps, and pipeline information across all environments
  • Version Management Flexibility: Support for major/minor versioning strategies to balance innovation with stability

Strategic Roadmap and Future Enhancements

The panel discussion revealed several exciting developments on the Pega roadmap that will further enhance global deployment capabilities:

  • Automated Recommendations: An upcoming feature will provide intelligent recommendations for pipeline dependencies, automatically notifying users about necessary pipeline references and enabling one-click application of these recommendations.
  • Enhanced Pipeline Management: New capabilities for organizing pipelines through favorites, automatic archiving of unused pipelines, and personalized user experiences that show only relevant pipelines to specific users.
  • Custom Templates and Governance: Future releases will enable Centers of Excellence to create organizational templates with mandatory thresholds—such as minimum guardrail scores—that cannot be modified by individual teams, ensuring consistent quality standards across the enterprise.

Integration and Migration Considerations

For organizations currently using Deployment Manager version 5, the webinar addressed migration pathways to the service-based version 6. The migration process is designed to be seamless, with automatic transfer of pipeline configurations, deployment history, and audit data. Organizations with hundreds of pipelines can migrate without disruption, as the system moves completed deployments behind the scenes at regular intervals.
The discussion also covered integration capabilities with popular DevOps tools, particularly Azure DevOps pipelines, which have out-of-the-box support for various agent types including YAML and PowerShell configurations. This flexibility enables organizations to maintain their existing DevOps orchestration while leveraging Pega's deployment capabilities.

Data and Configuration Deployment Strategies

Beyond application code, the experts addressed strategies for deploying reference data and administrative configurations. They recommended different approaches based on organizational needs:

  • Integrated Approach: Packaging data instances with applications when dealing with smaller numbers of unversioned rules
  • Separate Pipeline Strategy: Creating dedicated configuration pipelines for scenarios involving large numbers of data instances that need independent deployment timing
  • Configuration Sets: Utilizing newly added configuration sets for delegating certain configurations directly to production environments

Join the Pega as-a-Service Expert Circle

The insights shared in this webinar represent just a fraction of the valuable knowledge being exchanged within the Pega as-a-Service Expert Circle community. This collaborative initiative brings together Pega experts, clients, and partners to explore cutting-edge deployment technologies, share best practices, and shape the future of Pega Cloud capabilities.
Ready to transform your global deployment strategy? Join the Pega as-a-Service Expert Circle to access exclusive webinars, connect with industry experts, and stay ahead of the latest innovations in Pega Cloud deployment technologies. Whether you're managing applications across multiple regions or looking to streamline your DevOps practices, this community provides the insights and connections you need to succeed in today's global enterprise environment.
The Expert Circle continues to host regular sessions covering topics such as migrating from Deployment Manager 5.x to PDM as-a-Service, integrating Azure DevOps with Pega Cloud, and quarterly product releases with live Q&A sessions. Don't miss the opportunity to learn from Pega's leading technical experts and connect with peers facing similar global deployment challenges.

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About the Author

As a Technical Solutions Director at Pega Ivan Anikanov is helping Client organizations drive digital transformation and cloud-first delivery. He bridges business and technical domains, bringing real-world client insights into Pega As-a-Service strategy.
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