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Deploy your packages to an org |
Given a directory of artifacts and a target org, the deploy command will deploy the packages to the target org according to the sequence defined in the project configuration file.
The deploy command removes the overhead of scripting individual package deployments. The packages to deploy and order of deployment is automatically decoded from the project configuration file carried inside the packages (From Release 19)
{% hint style="info" %} For the deploy command to work, the artifacts must be created from the same source repository {% endhint %}
The deploy command runs through the following steps
- Reads all the sfpowerscripts packages provided through the artifact directory
- Unzips the artifacts and finds the latest sfdx-project.json.ori to determine the deployment order, if this particular file is not found (if the artifact is built from an earlier sfpowerscripts build/create - Release 18 or below), it needs sfdx-project.json on the repo
- Install the packages from the provided artifact directory to the target org based on the deployment order
In some situations, you might need to execute a pre/post deployment script to do manipulate some aspect on the org before or after being deployed to the org. sfpowerscripts allow you to provide a path to a shell script (Mac/Unix) / batch script (on windows). The script will be provided with the following parameters which could be utilised to write your logic
For eg: if you want to trigger an anonymous apex script after the installation of the package, you will create a script file similar to below and then add the path to the postDeploymentScript property of your package
# $1 package name
# $2 org
sfdx force:apex:execute -f scripts/datascript.apex -u $2
One could use the ignoreOnStage:[ "deploy" ] property to mark which packages should be skipped by the deploy command. If you want a selective skip, that is skip a particular package being deployed to specific org, you could use the property
`skipDeployOnOrgs: ["username/alias","username/alias"]`
If the username/alias passed as a flag to the command matches the array, then this package will be skipped on deployment
There are some certain situations, due to integrity concerns (especially around data or org-specific source packages) that need to be installed every time, as some earlier packages if deployed in the sequence would overwrite certain components. To solve this specific challenge utilize alwaysDeploy:true and the particular package will always be deployed. Please note this package has to be always available in the artifacts directory to enable this functionality.
The --baselineorg parameter allows you to specify the alias or username of an org against which to check whether the incoming package versions have already been installed and form a deployment plan.This overrides the default behaviour which is to compare against the deployment target org. This is an optional feature which allows to ensure each org's are updated with the same deployment across every org's in the path to production.
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It is often a recommended practice to split CI/CD into asynchronous pipelines. In this particular pattern, CI pipelines are responsible for uploading artifacts into an artifact repository ( eg: Jfrog Artifactory, Azure Artifacts) and CD pipelines then deploys these artifacts.
In this particular instance, this is a rough schematic for designing such pipelines are as follows. As you could see, from the below diagram, deploy could be used in the CD pipelines using only the artifacts from the artifact repository without the need for version control system to be hooked into the CD pipelines