First; When I pushed to GitHub I decided to rename the project to AutoDeploy.NET. In the hopes of keeping my sanity and in the context of working in an organization that strictly follows a 50+ page “release management handbook” I started working on AutoDeploy.NET; a deployment automation tool. As with all my personal projects I took an academic approach to the design and implementation. Instead of building an entire application I created a class library (dll) and used a few 3rd party libraries that I was either unfamiliar. Class Library My thought here is that by just creating the class library...

Its been a very slow road for me and coding the last few weeks. Between constant meetings and having to rebuild my home workstation (beta –> RC), I’m surprised I’ve got anything done. Current Status AutoDeploy consists of internal services and a task is simply a container for the service definition and required attributes. the current services and completion % (total guess…there is no road-map so its pretty hard too tell) ASP.NET Build – 80% C# Build– 80% Custom Task (MEF) – 80% Database Migration – Not Started Email – 80% FileCopy – 80% Folder Monitor – 80% Ftp – 80% MS...

Tonight I reworked in workflow, persistence, mapping, and entities in AutoDeploy. The fire draft consisted of a single entity type with long descriptive janky attributes. The new core goes something like this Deployment has a list of tasks. Tasks can be have a task type. Example 1 Creating a new deployment: 1: var dep = new Deployment() 2: .AddTask( 3: new FluentTask() 4: .Source("") 5: .Destination("") 6: .Type(Task.TaskType.Subversion) 7: .Save()) 8: .AddTask( 9: new FluentTask() 10: .Source("") ...

A class library to help automate simple deployment tasks. Warning: pre-alpha. AutoDeploy has 2 main components; deployment objects and a deployment controller. A deployment object holds n+1 deployment tasks. The deployment controller is responsible for executing scheduled, interval and on demand deployment tasks. AutoDeploy is complete enough for me to start dog fooding it this week. I’ll have a road-map soon after. Features Deployment Controller Scheduled Deployments Interval Deployments SVN Checkout SVN Commit ASP.NET Build Example 1: Fluent Interface, SVN Checkout, Interval ...