Deployables

A deployable is meant to represent a deployable component of an application. For example, if you have a multi-tier application called HDARS, it might have an HDARS web, an HDARS service, and an HDARS-API deployable to represent each of the corresponding tiers.

Adding Deployables

You can add deployables to your application from the Application Settings tab. Once you create a deployable for your application, you can select it for use in specific contexts, such as:

• In the Visual Plan Editor, you have the option to specify a deployable name
• When creating a release, you choose which deployables to include
• You can specify a deployable for database connections and change scripts
• You can filter and search for releases based on the deployables they contain

When adding an imported deployable from another application, select a specific release of the other application when creating a release.

Deployables and OtterScript

In deployment plans, a deployable is used in a general block as follows:

for deployable HDARS-Web
{
    ... operations ...
}

This sets the current deployable in context to HDARS-Web, which means that the block will be skipped if HDARS-Web is not included in the release.

You can also add variable key/value pairs to a deployable. When a deployable is in context (as in the case above), this variable is evaluated.

If HDARS-Web was an imported deployable, $ReleaseNumber would show the number of this application instead of the current version number.

Migrating Away from Deployables

Deployables should be replaced with variables. For example:

if $DeployHdarsWeb
{
    ... operations ...
}

You can prompt for $DeployHdarsWeb as a checkbox at Release or Build creation time.