Actions & Constructs
Deployment Manager has a rich set of deployment actions and control constructs, which are the essential building blocks through which deployments are scripted.
  • Deployments to take items from SCM and drop them onto a server
  • Remote script executions to run installers or apply the changes we deploy
  • Conditional statements which either
    • change the subset of servers selected
    • or, act like traditional control flow statements
  • Loops which executed actions repeatedly
  • Variables which can be used in many ways
    • in conditions
    • to record results
    • to make lists for later iteration
    • as automatic counters
  • Feedback so that the user knows what is going on