Bucket of release tasks helping you to deploy to all environments in Optimizely (formerly known as Episerver) DXP (a.k.a DXC) from Azure DevOps. The release tasks use the Deployment API. There are some developers out there that want/need help with deployment to the Optimizely (formerly known as Episerver) DXP enviroment. And that is why this deployment extension is created.
Now cross platform support. v2 of tasks support Windows/Ubuntu/MacOS.
How to install Epinova DXP Deployment extension
In short:
Install the extension to your Azure DevOps project: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=epinova-sweden.epinova-dxp-deploy-extension. Click on the green "Get it free" button and follow the instructions.
Microsoft has general information on how to install an Azure DevOps extension: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/marketplace/install-extension
In the end of that page, there also a link to how to manage extension permission. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/marketplace/how-to/grant-permissions
Take a NuGet package from your drop folder in Azure DevOps and upload it to your Optimizely (formerly known as Episerver) DXP project and start a deployment to the specified environment.
Deploy NuGet package documentation
Do the same thing like the "Deploy to =>" button in the portal. It moves the deployed code from one environment to another.
Can also be used for Content copy during deployment. With the IncludeBlob and IncludeDb you can now sync/deploy both ways.
Also support Zero Downtime Deployment (aka ZDD or Smooth deployment).
Deploy to documentation
Deprecated! You should stop using this task DeploySmoothTo. You should change to DeployTo.
Do the same thing as the "Deploy to" task. But this has support for Smooth deployment (Zero downtime deployment).
This task was created during the closed beta. There was not everybody that could use this feature. That is why this is like a copy past of the "Deploy To" task but with smooth deployment support.
Now when this feature is public for all DXP users, it is implemented in to the "Deploy to" task.
Deploy smooth to documentation
Copy content database and/or blobs between your environments.
Content copy documentation
Example how to use Content copy
Both "Deploy nuget package (Optimizely DXP)" and "Move deploy (Optimizely DXP)" tasks deploy a package to a environment. That will deploy the package to a slot. The task "Complete deploy (Optimizely DXP)" will complete the deploy and move the packe from slot to the real environment.
Complete deploy documentation
This task smoke test a slot and decide if we should continue the release or reset the environment slot because something is not working as expected. The smoke test is a simple check if one or many specified URLs returns HTTPStatus = 200 (OK).
Smoke test if fail reset documentation
Reset a specifed environment if the status for the environment is in status "AwaitingVerification".
Reset deploy documentation
Export database as a bacpac file from specified environment.
Export DB documentation
Task that await for status AwaitingVerification/Reset. Can be used when have a release setup that often timeout and need a extra task that verify correct status. If status is AwaitingVerification/Reset/Succeeded, nothing will happen.
Await status documentation
Task that check the status for an environment. if environment is not in the expected status the task will fail.
Expect status documentation
More detailed description how you can setup and use these tasks in different scenarios. Both with YAML and manual setup.
Setup senarios
Example how to setup content harmonization between DXP environments
A collection of problems that has been found and how to fix it.
Problems
We have set togheter a number of YML examples that you can use in your projects to fast get your project deployed to DXP. Epinova.OptimizelyDxp.Pipelines documentation