[Anthill-pro] Deployment and Artifacts

[Eric Minick]

Brian,

That's what artifacts are for. Let me lay down the standard AnthillPro 
deployment approach in your format.

1) Compile jar, war or exe
2) Optionally package into a tar with standard name
3) Deliver the package (or just all the pieces) as AnthillPro artifacts 
to be stored centrally.
4) Notify the Ops team that build 123 is ready
5) Ops team runs deployment workflow to move resolve artifacts to 
different host, and hopefully automatically deploy. At very least, it 
will move the files to the staging area for the Ops team to deploy.

What you describe is a hybrid of the standard AnthillPro model and your 
existing model. I think it's worth considering that this might not be 
ideal, but if it is what you want it should be quite doable. I would 
just publish the artifacts to Anthill at build time rather than at 
deployment time for tighter traceability.

-- Eric

Colfer, Brian wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I have set up my builds typically in this method:
>
> 1 compile jar, war or exe
>
> 2 package the parts into a tar file with a unique name
>
> 3 copy the package to a holding directory (we call this a build depot)
>
> 4 push the tar to a test server on a **different** host
>
> 5 notify ops that the system is ready for production and they get it 
> from the build depot
>
> What I would like is some way to archive the package after ops has 
> been told to pick it up. Would the artifact concept in anthill3 be a 
> good way to do this? How might this work? Are there reasonable 
> alternatives?
>
> Thanks
>
> Brian
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