Release Demo Plugin

This plugin provide a procedure that can be run with user-configurable parameters to generate a ready-to-run set of release models.

• Packaged as a plugin (using PluginLite)
• Customizable through procedure parameters or DSL template
• Default parameters create three releases, each with own dates and snap shot versions
• Can be run multiple times with different parameters
• Snapshots for multiple version, makes showing path to production compliance easy
• Automatic dates and release names (monthly)
• Prefilled environments
• Manual steps with instructions
• Configuration parameter exposed per environment
• Includes rolling deploys in prod environments with manual steps after phases (blue/green)
• Includes rollback
• Cleans up after itself on demotion, deleting all projects, artifacts and resources created from run procedures

Installation and Configuration Instructions

• Upload the plugin file (jar file provide or your own zip file)
• Promote the plugin
• (option 1) Run the procedure, Release Demo-3.0 :: Create Release Model and edit parameter values as desired:
  • Project name
  • Artifact group name
  • Names, number of applications, artifacts and version
  • Release Pipeline name and stages
  • Release names and dates (yyyy-mm-dd format)
• (option 2) Copy the contents of the plugin property, dslRunProcedureTemplate to DSLIDE and edit as desired
• Note that this procedure creates
  • Environment models: "Commit" plus the user-specified ones
  • Application: includes tiers and components specified by the user, these are deployed in parallel with a dummy validation and rollback
  • Commit pipeline: builds, deploys and snapshots all versions of the applications
  • build procedure: Run as part of the commit pipeline
  • Release and Release pipeline

Demonstration Instructions

• Run one of the releases
• Act on manual tasks or promotion prompts
• Note inventory
• To force a rollback, do a deploy and select one of the "bad" artifact versions
• When running in Prod, the demonstration is configured to do Blue/Green rolling deploys. There is a manual approval after each phase.

Known issues

• Demonstration should work on Windows, though it hasn't been tested there