I've tried taking a look on Google for how this can be done but I thought I'd post a question anyway to see what the best practice is for doing this nowadays.
We are trying to setup a Team City build to deploy to a clients environment, basically we're generating an artifacts zip file and the plan is to (somehow) deploy this to the clients UAT, Staging and Live Servers (which are password protected). When the build is run it executes a nant script.
From our network in the office we are able to remote into the UAT box, but we can only get to the Staging and Live servers whilst on the UAT box.
What is the best way of doing this? Are there any useful resources I can look at to help me move forward?
You can try Deployer Plugin developed by TeamCity team. It offers SMB/FTP/SSH deploy options as well as SSH Exec option.
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My site is meant to be published by the continuous integration hook in my git server. The continuous integration script runs lektor deploy.
As such, I need the publish settings in my project file, but I don't like the peril of having an easily-acessible publish button that can be fat-fingered.
I don't see anything like that in the command-line docs. Is that not possible?
You should be using lektor build instead and serve your site with a proper http server. (or deploy remotely e.g. with lektor deploy)
The dev server is meant to be just that, used for development. Running it in production might well be a security risk.
I am trying to do a PoC on how to achieve continuous integration and deployment using VSTS.
I have been successful in the build process i.e. from VSTS it will pull the code (asp.net based application) and build. The build process is also getting successful.
Now after the build is done I want to deploy the application and run my maven based selenium test cases written in java on the application. This is the part where I am struck. As in the deployment step it is not able to put the artifacts to the remote path that I am mentioning.
Can anyone please provide me some pointers on how to achieve the deployment on a remote machine and then run the java based test cases on this application?
Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Ok..here is the complete scenario...
1. I have the asp.net code on cloud in my vsts
2. I have been able to add a build step and create the artifacts successfully
3. Now I have a IIS server where i want to deploy these artifacts, and the server is not accessible from the public network and is behind a firewall.
Hence I am looking for any task that would help me achieve this. I am not sure of the complications that might arise due to the firewall and hence am trying out different methods to understand the complete big picture.
I received a reply here to use the Win RM tasks. I used that but it is giving a 53 error and not able to connect to the server that I am trying to deploy the code on.
To deploy asp.net based application, you can use IIS Web App Deployment step/task to deploy to your server or deploy to azure web site by using Azure App Service Deploy step/task.
To do Java test, there is a Maven step/task.
I wasn't able to find solid information on this and I wanted to ask developers who use Parse Dashboard:
What are the pros/cons of Parse Dashboard local installation vs deployment?
I currently run the Parse Dashboard on local installation, but I know that deployment to Heroku is also an option (my app is deployed on Heroku). I wanted to gather some information before deploying/not deploying.
Thank you!
I also have it running locally and I think for security reasons it's best to do so. If you setup the dashboard on the same server on which Parse is running, then you will have to take security measure to protect access to the dashboard and the config file which includes your masterkey and all that. This definitely outweighs the arguments to host it locally, which in my opinion only is that it's easier to access the dashboard.
If you really want to setup a dashboard on a server at least do it on a separate server.
We currently use TeamCity to build a deployment artifact, then a further TeamCity task takes that artifact and deploys it to our development and testing servers on demand.
We can store the passwords and other secret data in properties files that we can check into source control, as these are all internal servers and the developers have full access to them.
However for release to Production (and our final test layer) there are secret passwords and configuration that we don't want checked into the normal source control, or to have development be able to discover the passwords. So to do 'real' deployments we have to hand the artifact over to another team and they maintain a properties file with the production values.
What methods exist to store these secrets and allow TeamCity to run a deploy without ever leaking the secrets out?
(note I am one of the devs and it is not a trust issue... I don't want to have the ability to find out prod passwords so I can never accidently know them and do some horrific damage!)
Probably what you need here, is to create a separate project with narrower scope of permissions (for example, allow only certain people to edit build configurations). In this project create a build configuration, responsible for deployment. In this configuration, you can define a Typed Parameter of type 'password' to store the password to the production environment.
Another option is to use Deployer Plugin, especially its ability to deploy over ssh with private key authentication
If you are OK to use a third party solution, consider using a solution like CloudMunch which can help you to perform release management functions with these secure parameters collected at deploy time and encrypted post deployment.
Disclaimer: I work with CloudMunch
You can do 2 things.
Use a teamcity project to deploy artefacts for production only. This will only be accessible to ops members.
Teamcity also supports running agents with different user ids. You can create a new user id which can have access to the production "secrets" (passwords and configuration). Use this id to run the targets in the 1st step.
My office is growing and ive been tasked to build out the IT for our web development.
Whats the best tool/setup for doing web development in a group setting? The requirements are a centralized code repository, a location to test development code on, and finally a way to push tagged code out to a staging server. What im thinking is svn/redmine for code repo, each user has an account on a central development machine to allow for ssh access(eclipse over ssh) and their own virtual host on the dev server which gives everyone a centralized development sandbox. Code is written and tested on this dev box then checked back into svn and later tagged and pushed out to the staging server. Yeah? Thoughts comments or recommendations?
*Also, in a dev environment what is the best way to handle databases? Is it wise to pull from the production database? Also should each developer have his/her own db or work off a master db?
**We are building a magento application and also have some custom backoffice tools that run on cakePHP.
Although this subject is off-topic in StackOverflow and flagged so then you need to concentrate on following areas:
VERSION-CONTROL
GIT has all the glory and you don't need your own box for this as https://bitbucket.org/ offers unlimited data and private/public repos and you can set your codebase there. http://github.com is also powerful and de facto most popular version-control oriented tool out there although it comes for a small price
so your master branches live in your version control and your devs will checkout frpom there and commit to it as well
your deployment tools will deploy data to your live and staging environments from your master
ENVIRONMENTS
usually three are used LIVE, STAGE, DEV
LIVE is well live and only approved code gets deployed there
STAGE is pre-live environment and should be exact replica environment according to LIVE so all things can be tested there by merchant
DEV is cool to have exact replica but can as well be on developers local env and is ment for loose testing and experimenting
DATABASES AND DEPLOYMENT
mysql databases are pain in the ass to sync so you better have a script for it that syncs from live to others and prevent syncing from other environments to LIVE. This limitation also requires that all the configuration and content will be added from LIVE only and only then synced down the line. Every change to schema or permanent setting should be handled by update scripts (As we are talking MAGENTO CE , MAGENTO EE has migration built in)
for deployment I also suggest you to build a fabric or capistrano script that resets dev and staging environments, handles database reset and pull from LIVE DB, and imports code from central repository.
it's also a good idea to target the following everyday tasks:
clients needs to reset the stage for it's tests
project manager, developer or testers need to test so spawning a test clone should be oneclick action (take current db and code and make it live in some subfolder for specific test only) as well as deleting the test
3rd party devs might need access to specific test or dev environment (this is actual with magento as in average there are at least 10 external extensions installed in every magento store)