14 docs tagged with "step"

This topic provides examples of best practices to use when writing Deploy rules.

This topic covers the creation of rules in Deploy, which define the steps to be included in a deployment plan. Each rule in the xl-rules.xml file specifies a number of steps to add to the deployment plan.

This topic describes how to create a custom deployment step in Deploy using Java

This topic provides information about Deploy rules, which allow you to use XML or Jython to specify the steps included in a deployment plan and how these steps are configured.

This topic explains how to disable rules in Deploy by modifying the xl-rules.xml file

This topic helps you to get started with Deploy rules.

Deploy is a model-driven deployment solution. Users declaratively define the artifacts and resources that they need to deploy in a package, which is a ZIP file with a deployit-manifest.xml file, and Deploy figures out how to install the components in a target environment using rules. Rules are used to teach the Deploy execution engine how to generate your deployment steps in a scalable, reusable, and maintainable way.

When you define an XML or script rule in Deploy, you use expressions or scripts to define its behavior. These are written in Jython, a combination of Python and Java.

This topic describes the steps and step lists in Deploy.

Deploy rules enable you to use XML or Jython to specify the steps that belong in a deployment plan and how the steps are configured. Several Deploy plugins include predefined rules that you can use when writing rules. For more information on rules, see Get started with rules.

You can define new step primitives by using predefined step primitives such as jython and os-script. These are called step macros. After you define a step macro, you can refer to it by name, as you refer to a predefined step. You can reuse built-in steps and customize them for your system. Step macros can include one or more parameters of any valid Deploy type.

Deploy uses the FreeMarker templating engine to allow you to access deployment properties such as such as the names or locations of files in the deployment package.

A script rule adds steps and checkpoints to a plan by running a Jython script that calculates which steps and checkpoints to add.

The Deploy rules system enables you to use XML or Jython to specify the steps that belong in a deployment plan and how the steps are configured.