Automated-application-release-management subsystem that supports insertion of advice-based crosscutting functionality into pipelines

A method that incorporates cross-cutting functionalities into release pipelines executed by an automated-application-release-management subsystem, operating within a distributed-computer system having multiple servers, data-storage devices, and one or more internal networks, modular, the method comprising:

• storing advice entries that represent cross-cutting functionalities in an advice set;
• and
• incorporating, by an automated-application-release-management controller, cross-cutting functionalities at particular points in one or more release pipelines for execution by the workflow-execution engine using the advice set.

Computer instructions, stored within one or more physical data-storage devices, that, when executed on one or more processors within a distributed computer system having multiple servers, data-storage devices, and one or more internal networks, control an automated-application-release-management subsystem having a dashboard user interface, an automated-application-release-management controller, an interface to the workflow-execution engine within the cloud-computing facility, an artifact-storage-and-management subsystem, an infrastructure-management-and-administration subsystem, an advice set, and a workflow-execution engine to:

• store advice entries that represent cross-cutting functionalities in the advice set;
• and
• incorporate, by the automated-application-release-management controller, cross-cutting functionalities at particular points in one or more release pipelines for execution by the workflow-execution engine using the advice set.