[Anthill-pro] Extensibility of AnthillPro / Use of AnthillPro to kick off deployments

[Eric Minick]

Antoine,

While it is not quite out of preview mode yet, you should really check out the Anthill3 project. With just configuration, I have my test box in a state where I can go to a previous build, choose to run an additional workflow on it, pick the 'deploy' workflow, and then have the exact Dev|UAT|Prod choice you suggest. It's pretty slick.

There, the distinction between restarting the servers or not would be a different workflow. The first workflow (no restart) would just execute the deployment job(s) on the target servers. The second workflow (with restart) might reuse the deployment job and run the additional restart job.


In Anthill Pro, the deployment build manager could be handy and the 
various target servers and options might be best represented by 
different build tracks. From an extension point of view, modifying the 
build screen is going to be difficult at best.

Custom JSPs might be possible as part of a separate module. Which is 
doable, but not an insignificant amount of work.

We recognize that managed builds and CI are great but for a lot of 
teams, doing the build is the easy part compared with managing the 
promotions and deployments. That's what the ALM features in Anthill3 are 
all about.

Cheers,
Eric

Antoine Levy-Lambert wrote:

>Hi,
>
>we are interested to "pervert" AnthillPro to make it start actions which are not builds.
>
>For instance starting the deployment of a J2EE App in a certain environment.
>
>Is it possible to add custom servlets or JSPs to AnthillPro ? 
>
>We might need some custom fields on some of our "Build" pages.
>
>For instance, have a check box : 
>
>restart servers after deployment [Yes/No] [x]
>
>add a combo box :
>
>Deploy to : Dev|UIT|PROD ...
>
>We are still using Ant as the tool which does the deployments.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Antoine
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