I am using TeamCity to compile my projects, then deploying them through Octopus Deploy. Both windows. It just works! Nice.
Now, I want to release zip files for download, i.e. they shouldn't be deployed to my environments as such.
Since .nupkg as actually .zip files in disguise, I should think this is achievable? But how?
On my target web server, I've got a folder for downloading the zip files, so I just need help renaming and copying the package?
You need to use the Transfer Package feature of OD
https://octopus.com/docs/deployment-process/deploying-packages/transfer-package
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My automation deployment environment I have web.war file deployment under tomcat.
Lets assume this web.war application contains mix.jar file which is under /lib directory of web.war archive file.
(mix.jar releases giving by different DEV team and they don't responsible for giving web.war and the organization practice is putting the latest mix.jar file into the web.war archive file manually )
Can anyone help me to automate this process from CHEF recipe ?
Basically what I need during the chef deployment is, putting the mix.jar file into the web.war/lib directory under tomcat container.
Our current practice is open the web.war file from Winrar and put the mix.jar file into it and redeploy it into tomcat.
But I want to automate this process.
Jar files are just zip files so you can probably write some code using either the zip command line tool or the RubyZip gem (I would go for the latter but depends on your comfort level with Ruby code) to do this on the fly, but please don't. Chef is really not built for this kind of task and it will be very frustrating to build the code in a robust manner. If you need it ASAP and want to build a fragile version now and fix the process afterwards that's more understandable, but otherwise probably just talk to your dev team about what this is and why you need it added to their build process. Some problems are best solved with communication rather than code.
I currently have Team City set up on a server that does:
1) Build the Project
2) Run unit tests
3) Publish the project through IIS if successful
I want to add another step so that a .zip file is produced consisting of what was deployed to a directory on the server running team city. I am to understand that this is possible through artefacts but everything I've tried so far hasn't worked to give me the publish output.
I've tried options such as "** => C:\TC\Test.zip" but that includes the actual code implementation files.
Is there a way in which to publish a zip containing the publish result?
I've been trying this for hours without luck so far so hopefully I can get an answer.
You can use this to zip all files relative to the root of the build:
**/* => artifacts.zip
To zip all files relative to a folder named publish:
publish/**/* => artifacts.zip
If your published files are not included in the zip, they may have been published to someplace outside of the root of the build.
I have a .Net 4.5 project that I am deploying with teamcity and Octopus Deploy which includes a PreDeploy.ps1, a Deploy.ps1 and a PostDeploy.ps1.
The build action on all three is Content. I have tried Copy To Output Directory set to do not copy and copy always.
I can see that when TeamCity creates the nuget packages, that all three powershell scripts are included in the artifacts view. However, following the deployment, only the Deploy and PostDeploy scripts are in the octopus directory on the tentacle machine.
Am I missing something here?
Octopus caches the downloaded packages, so perhaps you didn't bump the version number to force a fresh download? Alternatively you could check the "Re-download packages from the NuGet server" when deploying a release.
If PreDeploy.ps1 was added later than the other scripts then the above could be the reason.
I am running jboss 7.1, maven 3, and a java ee6 application that generates an .ear
I am doing a mvn clean package jboss:as-deployand Jboss-as-maven-plugin 1.5 does its thing--I can view my app using http://localhost:8080...
just fine, but I want to know where the actual .ear is being put.
It is not in my jboss7.../standalone/deployments folder. So where is it? My app is obviously running in jboss 7.1 just fine, but I can't find the .ear file. I know that there is an .ear in Eclipse's 'target' directory, but that wasn't produced by jboss-as-maven-plugin is it? I hope you can understand my confusion--don't all .ear files need to be in the deployments directory? I also do see my .ear file inside my hidden .m2/repository directory, but does this have any interaction with jboss-as-maven-plugin? Maybe there is some hidden sym-linking between my Eclipse project's 'target' directory and the jboss7.1 standalone/deployment directory?
p.s. I am used to using a hard-deploy option with the other plugin jboss-maven that requires you to say jboss:hard-deploy which just copies the .ear to your deployments folder. Then jboss would pick up the new .ear and redeploy automatically. I get the sense that jboss-as-maven-plugin is the preferred plugin so that's why I am bothering.
The jboss-as-maven-plugin uses the deployment API so it doesn't copy the file to the deployments directory for the scanner to pick it up. It deploys just as if you deployed it from the web console or via CLI. The files should be located somewhere in the $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/data/ directory.
You're welcome to open an issue, for a discussion around it at least. I'm not sure how I feel about adding a goal for it, but here isn't the place to discuss that :)
For a .NET Developer, the Teamcity artifact paths are not very straightforward.
Per project I do, I have a folder called BuildTools and, within it, folders called Drops and Inputs (drops being the reports and outputs inputs being the config files for various command line apps).
BuildTools/Drops/NDependOut => GenericSolution/Drops/NDepend
Is this correct? BuildTools is from the root of the (custom) checkout dir, and then GenericSolution is from the root of the artifacts path (Called "Artifacts" folder).
The other problem I have is that the NDepend report has a lot of images etc in the same folder as the .html file. How would I upload this? Do I upload the entire folder (in which case, is the syntax above correct?)
In general this is right. TeamCity has an option to zip artifacts before publish. For that use the following syntax
Folder/folder/*/ => destfolder/archive.zip
Another trick is to use TeamCity service message to publish artifacts dynamically from build script.