I'm packaging up some mongo scripts along with the necessary binaries to run them into a Nuget package via Teamcity. Now what I want to do with Octopus is pull that package, extract the contents and run the scripts once per deployment. I don't want or need these to be deployed to any machines as these scripts are not target machine specific. I was thinking via powershell I could
Download the package (possibly query the feed for a specific version)
Extract it
Run the scripts
Clean up
Anyone experienced a similar problem?
The solution is to install a Tentacle on the Octopus Server, assign it to all environments, give it a unique role along the lines of octopus-server, and then configure a script step to use the octopus-server role as your target. You can then write a PowerShell, C# or Bash script in that script step that will call and execute the mongo scripts that you have stored in your project. That way, it'll only run on your Octopus Server. I've done something similar to run MySQL scripts recently.
The OctopusDeploy docs provide a nice walkthrough here and an explanation of why they chose to handle it that way.
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I have a doubt.
How can i create scritps to :
Get my code from repository (GitHub, GitLab...)
Build
Publish
Test
Run in IIS
This script should run in windows or linux OS, and consider that i have a empty VM.
This application is an .Net Core WebApi.
I searched in web but not found an template geting code from repository.
This is doable with scripts like #Scott said and you should consider using solutions for this because there are some great free ones out there like teamcity with octopus integration. Here is what you need to consider if you decide on making scripts for this.
The vm you have is empty so the runtimes need to be installed and
checked are they compatible with code you are trying to deploy to
them.
The scripts for some parts of deployment will need to be run under user with sufficient privileges
You will need to handle the webserver configuration with the scripts as well for all of this
And those only a few things that are on the list for that path. Now having said that there is the path of containers which handle most of this through code and can be deployed to all of environments you mentioned before and you only need to worry that there is a container service on those vm-s you want to deploy to and it will be much easier to handle since like i mentioned it is all in code and is easily changed unlike some scripts.
I want to develop a continuous integration with one or many scripts locally and then on a server.
For that I need Jenkins. I installed jenkins in a docker container, but would it be possible to configure it with a script so that the configuration can be used on any computer that runs it? When I talk about configuration, I'm talking about jenkins jobs and plugins.
You can use a configuration management tool like chef or ansible to install and configure in automated way. If using chef you can use the community cookbook. If you are only looking for creating jobs automated way check this thread. Similar way you will be able to create groovy script to install plugins as well.
Also take a look at this article
I am completely new to octopus. Basically i want to deploy a node application to an EC2 instance. I am using bitbucket for my sources and bamboo for CI. I wanted to know how exactly to proceed further. Or if i want to deploy my node application using octopus, should i package my node application in specific way? Or is there any tool which is actually feasible than octopus. As octopus is known for .net platform deployment. I am using mac. Do we have octopus server installer for mac?So that i can play around with it locally. Thanks in advance
Octopus needs a Windows machine to run the Server component. You can deploy to a target over SSH - so your EC2 machine doesn't need to be running Windows.
There's a guide to deploying a node.js app with Octopus that's probably the best place to start.
The deployment process should be fairly straightforward. Most likely a Package Step followed by a bash script to spin up or restart your node application.
To create a package to send to Octopus, create a zip or tarball containing all of the files you need for your node application to run. You can use octopackjs for this. It should be appropriately named with the version number as per that documentation page.
Adding a step at the end of your Bamboo build to tell Octopus to create a Release is relatively straightforward, as is deploying releases.
I am deploying a nuget package that comes to Octopus Deploy from TeamCity. What I need to do is to apply config transforms and deploy the zip archive of that package content (Windows Application binaries) to a specific folder of the tentacle. I even don't need to publish the package itself. Is there a way to achieve that?
If I understand you correctly, you should be able to achieve this fairly easily.
Have a standard step type of Deploy NuGet Package to install the nuget package onto the tentacle for the correct environment and role, ensuring that Configuration Variables and Xml Transforms are enabled - This will ensure your configs are transformed OOTB with no effort.
In order to then deploy the binaries I would use some custom powershell as this doesn't appear to be an "application type" that Octopus treats as a first class citizen. You could write the powershell inline as a second step by adding a step type of Run a PowerShell script and writing the code in the Octopus UI. Not knowing if the are going over a network share or any specifics I've not attempted to write any code.
My personal preference would be to write this as a powershell script that is included in the .nuget package. Octopus Deploy supports a naming convention on certain PowerShell files it finds in the .nuget package (PreDeploy.ps1, Deploy.ps1, PostDeploy.ps1). I'd write a PostDeploy.ps1 and package that up. I'd then have that script under source control and could easily make changes to it.
The caveat with this if you aren't careful is that you then start to move deployment implementations away from Octopus. However, written carefully and generically you could bootstrap the script with Variables (such as path to directory / network share etc) which makes it reusable should the need arise, and you can have it work differently in different environments.
Please pardon my ignorance if I've still not understood what you mean by the binaries "being in zipped form"
Further details on the Octopus Deploy PowerShell Scripts
Hope this help.
You could add a post-deployment powershell script to your deployment step to zip the contents of the deployment folder after the configs have been transformed.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2015/03/09/use-powershell-to-create-zip-archive-of-folder/
How to configure Jenkins to run Query (select, Update) on Oracle database,
Is there any plugin available in Jenkins?
Is there any easy way to write script in python?
Jenkins is a Continuous Integration (CI) tool. It is a development practice that requires developers to integrate code into a shared repository several times a day. Each check-in is then verified by an automated build, allowing teams to detect problems early.
Is there any plugin available in Jenkins?
As far as i know, there are no plugins for the type of job you're looking for. However, it does provide you a mechanism to run your own scripts by using various options present in Build section such as running a Win batch script, shell script, perl, python, ant commands etc...
Is there any easy way to write script in python?
If you understand the language well, then yes!
This link might be of some interest: http://176.34.122.30/blog/2009/05/18/continuous-integration-with-oracle-plsql-utplsql-and-hudson/
Plugin to run Sql on Oracle database in Jenkins:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/SQLPlus+Script+Runner+Plugin