I am learning uDeploy and try to deploy test release (by referring simple HelloWorld application)
Created component, component process & application as download artifacts to c:\UAT_1_Rel (Say Environmwnt-1)
(Source configuration type as file system).
Provided the sample data as T1.txt and T2.txt and successfully deployed (i.e. in Environmwnt-1)
Now Need to deploy this two files into c:\UAT_2_Rel (i.e. in Environmwnt-2)
For this need to create another component or is any other way (i.e. Want to know how to deploy using single components to Multiple environment)
Please help to move next step. Your help is highly appreciated.
Note:
The settings already done as given below
Name : CompUAT1
Source Configuration Type : file system
Base Path : c:\SrcArt_1_Rel
Destination Directories : c:\UAT_1_Rel
Resource : TestReso
Agent : PTest1
Environment : EnvUAT-1
and done the required settings by Add Base Resources
In the application process design as Install component and added component (CompUAT1)
Using single component you can deploy to multiple environments, its depends on how you have mapped your component in Resource tree.
Create separate group in resource tree for each environment and add your component there.
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I have EJBs deployed on several different servers, for different environments. I have many projects that use these EJBs. I usually just run my projects against the DEV server EJBs, but sometimes I need to run against the TEST or PROD environment EJBs. This necessitates having to comment out all of the DEV nodes in my jboss-client-ejb.properties file and uncomment all of the TEST nodes. But then if I forget to change them back, I may mess up some data if I run it later. What I would like to do is create a different runtime configuration for each environment, and have each runtime config use a different version of the jboss-client-ejb.properties. Is there a way to do this? If so how? I have looked at all of properties of a run configuration, and don't see anything helpful.
In eclipse preferences search for string variable substitution. Here create variables that point to multiple config files for each of your environments. Then create multiple run configurations and for each one (like dev or prod) add a program argument that points to your string variable defined in your preferences like this -DmyconfigFile={$MyDevPropertiesFilePath}, or you could hard code the config path and have multiple runtime configurations that use different config files. Key point here is create multiple runtime launch configurations for each environment and add the properties for each environment that point to the config file respective to each environment. This way you can easily select the launch menu and decide to run "dev" "prod" or whatever you name your multiple configurations. Trying to do this with one runtime configuration will cause pain as you say, because it is easy to forget to revert or change the config file you want to to use. Hope that helps. Also if you create a new workspace you can export your runtime configurations using the export wizard which is also helpful for passing on to other developers or putting in source control.
P.S Looking more at your question you wan to pass in the config file path as a program argument, you are correct there are no specific options for setting this file path. Using program arguments with multiple launch configurations.
For my Play 2.2/Scala application (built with SBT), I would like to deploy different configuration files depending on the environment I'm deploying to (e.g. to couple a deployment with a particular database server). How does one create different variants of the application's configuration file (conf/application.conf) for different deployment targets? Hopefully variants can be generated from a base version?
What I'm used to from .NET is to have a base configuration file (Web.config), which undergoes a certain transformation depending on the profile one is deploying (e.g. Production). Does one use a similar technique in the Play/Scala world?
Alternative configuration files are covered in Play's documentation quite well in section Specifying alternative configuration file.
In short - in application.conf you place default configuration of your app, and additionally you need to create additional files for you environment(s) ie. life.conf, dev.conf etc. In these files you first need to include application.conf (which will read whole default configuration) and next just overwrite only parts which have to be changed - ie. DB credentials, it could be dev.conf:
include "application.conf"
db.default.driver=org.h2.Driver
db.default.url="jdbc:h2:mem:alternative-database-for-dev-testing"
db.default.user=developer
db.default.password="developerpass"
So finally you start your application (after dist) as
./start -Dconfig.resource=dev.conf
or with the Play console
play -Dconfig.resource=dev.conf run
Several tips:
It's good idea to do not place your 'life' DB credentials in default application.conf file, if some dev will forget to include his dev.conf he won't damage the production DB, instead you should put it in prod.conf.
Also these additional configs shouldn't be placed in any VCS (ie. git) repository - creating them directly on target machine (and ignoring in repository) give you sure, that people who shouldn't know the life database credentials won't see it.
It's also possible to use remote alternative config file, which can be useful ie. when you deploying several instances of the same app ie. on several hosts in the cloud.
Each dev can has own config file ie dev_aknuds1.conf, dev_biesior.conf etc, so you can ignore them with one pattern dev_*.conf in repo.
Finally you can just create a shell script (unix) or bat file (Windows) to start using choosen config file like start_dev.sh, run_dev.sh etc. so you won't need to write -Dconfig.resource=... each time
Hi all I am very new to SSIS. I have got SSIS package developed by some other guy this package reads data from flat files and stores to database after mapping.
Flow:
1) First package extract records from flat file and stores in table.
2) Then it calls child package using Execute package tasks.
3) Then child package do some calculations and update the database table.
SSIS is using Environment variable to get database information.
Every thing is working fine but now I want to deploy this package to my client's server.
Ques: Do I need to copy and paste files from bin folder and paste on clients machine?
What I Tried: I copy files from bin folder and placed on my local computer. Then I create a job in MSSQL and run the job. Package runs perfectly. But Later I changed location of my project and problem starts job stops working.
Issue: Error says location of child package is not available(As I changed position of my project files)
Kindly suggest what to do.
I am going to make several assumtions here so please correct me if I get any wrong.
The problem I am guessing is that on your Package.dtsx within the connection manager this is currently linked to the package location within the project folder. In this case you are wanting to change it to another location, however the package in the connection manager is still pointing to the project location.
If I were you I would do the following:
Create a string variable
PackageFolderPath - C:\CurrentPackagePath\DBPackage.dtsx
Now what you want to do is go to the package within the connection manager and under the properties add an expression for ConnectionString with the following: “#[User::PackageFolderPath] If you evaluate the expression it should give you the location you setup in your variables.
Please note however that if you want this to work on the development system then setup the package to the project location.
Now once you have those setup, copy the files across the new server and under the SQL agent job to go the Set Values tab and within here you want to add the following:
\Package.Variables[User::PackageFolderPath].Properties[Value]
Under the value you want to put wherever the package is now located
This now should pickup the new location of the package when it is run.
A better way to do this would be to make use of the deployment utility and using an XML configuration variable on the package. However this way should work.
So I am trying to use TFS Build for generating deployment packages for my 3 environments (ST, UAT, Prod).
This what I followed to successfully genrate the package locally.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsbuild/thread/74bb16ab-5fe6-4c00-951b-666afd639864/
So my local machine will generate the package for the acyive configuration and everything is good. Here is my Build definition :
/p:DeployOnBuild=true;DeployTarget=Package
I run my solution file and the web deployment project in the Projects To Build.
It creates the respective folders with ST, UAT and PROD. In each of these there is a _PublishedWebsites folder. This folder have 2 folders.
1) MydeploymentProject - It contains the transformed web.config
2) MyDeploymentProject_Package - Contains the Package folder contents along with the zip file and setparameters files. Here the everything is not transformed. But if I check the TempBuildDir on the TFS server it does contain the transformed config.
When compared the logs local and on server, I found that the on my local After transformation files are updated and package is created whereas on TFS the AfterBuild target is called transformation done and it ends there.
this is my local log
Target "WPPCopyWebApplicaitonPipelineCircularDependencyError" skipped, due to false condition; ($(WPPCopyWebApplicaitonPipelineCircularDependencyError)) was evaluated as (False).
Target "ProcessItemToExcludeFromDeployment" in file "C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets" from project "C:\TAX-IT\Main\Source\TDDB\TDDB_deploy2\TDDB_deploy2.wdproj" (target "PipelineCollectFilesPhase" depends on it):
Done building target "ProcessItemToExcludeFromDeployment" in project "TDDB_deploy2.wdproj".
Target "GetProjectWebProperties" in file "C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets" from project "C:\TAX-IT\Main\Source\TDDB\TDDB_deploy2\TDDB_deploy2.wdproj" (target "PipelineCollectFilesPhase" depends on it):
Using "GetProjectProperties" task from assembly "C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft\WebDeployment\v10.0\....\VisualStudio\v10.0\Web\Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll".
Task "GetProjectProperties"
I am not sure what is wrong.
Also I installed VS2010, web deploy 2.0 and 3.0 and web deployment tools on my Build servers.
Anyone have faced this and resolved.
Please help.
Thanks
MadCoder,
From what I've gathered from your description, you have everything set up correctly. It seems like you are just missing the "Configuration" parameter. When you do run the Build Definition, it uses the configuration specified in your "Configurations to Build" argument. If you want to have multiple configurations built (like you are suggesting), you'll need to have multiple configurations defined. One question I have is: When you look at the logs of the TFS Build Process, do you see multiple configurations built, or do you only see one? If you only see one, then you don't have all of the configurations defined in order to transform the config file. According to your description, you'll need to see something like this in your build definition configuration:
If you don't want to deploy to a webserver, you can stop reading here, and don't have to continue on.
If you choose to use a TFS Build Definition to deploy to a web server, you'll need to have a target web server somewhere and you'll need to install and configure the Web Deploy v2/v3 on that server as well.
When you are using TFS Build Definitions to deploy, the transformation happens upon deployment, not during packaging (prior to deployment). It may package up a transformed config somewhere, but it won't actually transform the config bundled with the website. The only way I've been able to get the deployment to actually work with a transformed config is when I had a website specified in the MSBUILD args. Here is an example of my MSBUILD args:
/p:DeployOnBuild=True /p:DeployTarget=MSDeployPublish /p:MSDeployPublishMethod=RemoteAgent /p:MsDeployServiceUrl=MyWebServer/MsDeployAgentService /p:DeployIisAppPath="MyWebsite as named in IIS" /p:UserName=MyDomain\MyWebDeployUser /p:Password=MyWebDeployPassword
If you don't want MSBUILD to do the actual deployment (I prefer not to because then your deployment process is tied to TFS), you can do the deployment after the build process and use the CTT Project, found on codeplex. This tool performs the exact same transformations as MSBUILD, but it also includes the ability to parameterize settings so you can define classes of environments (for example, 3 QA environments, 2 Staging Environments, etc.) and still use the respective transforms for that class of environment.
I'm using NAnt to build an ASP.NET MVC project.
The NAnt script then creates a zip package, containing a deploy script and all the necessary files.
The deploy script backs up the current running website, sets up the newer version of the website and updates the DB.
This works fine for a single environment.
However, we're asked more and more to set up a Staging/Acceptance environment next to the production. These environments, of course, differ in file structure, DB server, config settings etc.
How can I best handle this in the deploy scripts? I don't want to create separate variables for each environment, distinguishable by name only.
Providing defaults and providing the variables in separate files seems more logical.
Does anyone have practical experiences with this?
Store the things that you think are likely to change between environments in config files.
Visual Studio can do the heavy lifting here if you like; you can create settings and specify default values from the Settings tab of a Visual Studio project's properties.
This will create the config file for you and provide strongly-typed access through Properties.Settings.Default.
As for handling multiple environments through your build, I've seen some people recommend maintaining multiple copies of the config files - one for each environment for example - and others recommend using nant to modify the config files during the build or deployment phase. You can use a property passed to nant on the command line (for example) to select which environment you are building (or deploying, depending on how you're doing it).
I don't recommend either of these approaches because:
They both require changes to your build to support new environments.
If you change a setting in a deployed environment and forget to update the build then the next deployment will reset the change (somewhat defeating the point of config settings).
If someone creates a new environment (lets say they want to explore issues arising from upgrading to a new version of SQL Server for example) and doesn't fancy creating all new config files in the build system, they might decide to just use an existing environment's settings. Let's say they choose to deploy using the live settings and forget to change something afterwards. Your new 'test' environment could now be pointing to live kit.
I create a copy of each config file (called web.config.example, for example) and comment out the settings within them (unless they have meaningful defaults). I check these in and have those deployed instead of the real web.config (that is, web.config is NOT deployed automatically. web.config.example is deployed as web.config.example.
The admin of the new environment will have to copy and rename the file to web.config and provide meaningful values). I also put all the calls to the settings behind my own wrapper class - if a mandatory setting is missing I throw an exception.
The build and my environments no longer depend on each other - one build can be deployed to any environment.
If a setting is missing (a new environment or a new setting in an existing environment) then you get a nice clear exception raised to tell the admin what to do.
Existing settings are not altered after an upgrade because only the .example files were updated. It's an admin task to compare the current settings with the latest example and revise if necessary.
To configure the deployment, you could put all the environmental settings (install paths, etc) into nant properties and move them into a separate file (settings.build for example) then use the nant include task to include that file at the top of your deployment file (deploy.build for example). You can then deploy a new version of deploy.build without overwriting your config changes as they are in settings.build. If a new property is introduced into deploy.build nant will fail with a nice message to tell you that you haven't set that property.