I am new to VSTS build and deploy and I am struggling with it.
I have a solution that contains a Web Core API and a ASP.Net web project.
I have done my build and now I want to deploy the build to an on premise web server.
When I look at my artifacts, everything looks OK;
So when I set up a deploy definition I start with an empty environment and I add a task. It looks to me that given I want to move the artifacts to an on premise web server I should be using the Windows Machine File Copy task. But when I do I find that I do not have access to the drop folder. How do I fix this (and have I selected the correct task?).
You're using the hosted agent. The hosted agent can't deploy to an on-prem server -- it has no network route.
You can either use Deployment Groups (the agent is installed on your target machine and talks directly to VSTS), or you can install your own on-prem build/release server, then push the bits to the target machine using the Windows Machine File Copy task.
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I am planning to use Azure VMSS for deploying a set of spring boot apps. I am planning to create a custom linux VM image with all the required softwares/utilities as well as the required directory structure and configure this image in VMSS. We use jenkins as CI/CD tool and Git as source code repo. What is the best way to build and deploy these spring boot apps on VMSS?
I think one way is to write a custom script extension which downloads code from Git repo and then starts these spring boot apps. I believe this script will then get executed every time a new VM is provisioned.
But what about cases where already multiple VMs are running on top of minimum scale instance count. I believe a manual restart will not trigger the CSE script to run on these already running VMs right?
Could anyone advise the best way to handle this?
Also once a VM is deallocated due to auto scale down, what is the best/cost optimal way to back up the log files from VM to storage (blob or file share)?
You could enable Automatically tear down virtual machines after every use in the organization settings/project setting >> agent pool >> VMSS agent pool >> settings. Then, a new VM instance is used for every job. After running a job, the VM will go offline and be reimaged before it picks up another job. The Custom Script Extension will be executed on every virtual machine in the scaleset immediately after it is created or reimaged. Here is the reference document: Create the scale set agent pool.
To back up the log files from VM, you could refer to Troubleshoot and support about related file path on the target virtual machine.
This is my first time deploying an application. I have some idea about it but I am not sure if it is correct. How do I go about deploying a play application on google cloud?
1) I have created a package using dist command. I have the zip file now on my local pc. https://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.5.x/Deploying
2) Do I first need to create a compute resource on gcp? What configuration shall I use for the vm? My app is still in test phase so there are no external users at the moment
3) I suppose play uses netty web server. So do I need to install netty on the compute resource? I have looked online a bit but can't find a resource on how to deploy an application on netty.
deploy an application on netty
Netty is not a web server/application server, but an IO framework which can be used to build web servers or any high-performant IO applications.
If you really want to use netty, you need to write an HTTP server yourself, or just use an HTTP framework built on netty.
If you want to build an application using netty, have a look at the examples on https://github.com/netty/netty/tree/4.1/example/src/main/java/io/netty/example/
Deploying a container to the Cloud using Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes Engine
Kubernetes is a way of orchestrating containers in the Cloud, enabling you to do things like auto-scale, fast deploys and manage running versions of containers. You simply create a container and upload it to a container repository. In this example I used Google’s Container Registry, it’s really simple to use and works brilliantly with their Kubernetes implementation.
follow this tutorial might help you with this
https://medium.com/beyond/deploying-a-container-to-the-cloud-using-google-cloud-platform-and-kubernetes-engine-10d8ee3aba86
I want to setup an cloud development environment for my personal use.
Requirements:
1. Have a cloud web server (basically any linux system) serving my Elixir (backend language) app.
2. Connect Sublime Text / Atom to this server (via sftp maybe), and make code changes and save. Automatic compilation and other stuff will be taken care by mix or task runner.
3. Multiple device connectivity to this setup.
Reasons for this setup:
I want to be able to develop from anywhere (office, home, etc), just configure the IDE and continue to work from where I left off last from any device.
Better productivity and less setup required.
Secure as well
Current solution I have:
Had setup a linux instance with sftp server enabled.
Created projects under the root of the sftp directory.
Run task runners in those projects to auto compile and server with other stuff.
Connected sublime text to this sftp server and start working. On save it uploads the file to the server.
I connect another laptop to this server and can start working on last saved state.
This setup works fine till now, but if there is a better way for this, I would love to know.
Since you are using git, you don't need a separate cloud server for syncing your dev environments. The easiest way to meet your needs would be to create a branch in git called workinprogress (for example), and then push and pull to it from your various locations. When you have something you want to publish to the main branch you can do an interactive rebase before merging, which enables you to rewrite the history of your workinprogress branch, squashing and rewording the commit messages as much as you like. Then once you have everything you want on the main branch, you either delete workinprogress and start a new one, or just git checkout workinprogress && git reset --hard master.
If you still want to have your Elixir app on a live server somewhere, then you can just pull from Github on that server and get latest updates for the app.
I work from various places too, and use this work flow. No problems so far.
I'm trying to automate the process of deploying code using github and jenkins job to deploy my Springboot Application on AWS .
I want to know where should I place the application.properties file in case I m deploying a war file on Tomcat and don't want this file to be pushed onto github as it may contain some database credentials , not to be exposed.
Should I put separate application-prod.properties file in Tomcat (AWS) so that my war file will be independent of these properties ?
See my answer here.
In a nutshell, you externalise the properties and then pass one or more profiles that will activate one or more Spring Configuration classes. Each Configuration class will load one or more property file. In your case, if you only have one environment, you can just create a configuration file for one profile.
Then, on your AWS instance, you will deploy the configuration file separately. At runtime, you will need to pass to your Spring Boot application the active profile(s). You can do this by passing the VM argument: -Dspring.profiles.active=[your-profile]
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how about using spring-cloud-starter-config instead of local properties ?
If using spring-cloud-start-config, all configurations should be loaded from your config-center instead of reading them locally.
Even if you have multiple different environments, spring-cloud-starter-config could handle it with different profiles.
What's more, spring-cloud-starter-config could use local environment variables too.
By the way, the only local resource could be bootstrap.yml if you are using spring-cloud-starter-config.
Wish I can help you!
I am using TeamCity (version 9.1.5 if that matters) and I am trying to figure out how to create a trigger that deploys the project to a server. Or maybe there is a way to deploy a project to a server without using a trigger on TeamCity.
It's a very broad question, but I will share the approaches I have used in a couple of scenarios:
1) To deploy when a code checkin is performed, I have setup a build configuration that does the deployment, added the build configuration that does the compiling & packaging as a snapshot and artefact dependency which is then triggered with a Finish Build Trigger https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD9/Configuring+Finish+Build+Trigger
2) To deploy at a given time of the day but only when new code has been checked in, I have setup a build configuration as above but triggered with a Schedule Trigger https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD9/Configuring+Schedule+Triggers ensuring to select the dependent build in the Build Changes section.
With regards to how to perform the deployment there are many options, I have used WebDeploy for ASP.Net applications and MSI packages executed by Remote Powershell scripts for Windows Services, but other options are also available depending on the technology you have.
JetBrains provide an end to end example for ASP.Net in their on-line documentation, search for "Continuous Delivery to Windows Azure Web Sites (or IIS)"