Good practice.

skycaptain

Hi,
In the team we are using TeamCity as our Continuous Build System (and manual deploy). We are currently thinking to start using RedGate Deployment manager.
Our deployment usually consists of a few steps (stop services, upgrade, restart services). We have put together some powershell scripts to generate the .nuSpec, .nupkg. I was just wondering if there is a better/ different way of doing that.
Cheers.

chirayu

What type of application are you looking to deploy with Deployment Manager (DM)?

If you are looking for different ways to generate a NuGet package:
- You can use NuGet command line tool to generate the package. But as far as I am aware you would need to have a nuspec file to call the command with it.
- You can use RgPublish which is a free command line tool that comes with DM. With this command line tool, creating a nuspec file is optional. Metadata like version, id etc are supplied as command line arguments when calling the command so a nuspec file is not needed. To get RgPublish.exe, head to DM UI, click on Tools tab at the top.
- DM also has a Visual Studio extension and an SSMS Add-in. You can get these extensions from the Tools tab too. After installing these, you can right click your database/web project and publish a NuGet package directly to DM. This is not a suitable option if you are looking to automate the deployments.

If you are also looking to automate deploying to a test environment from TeamCity you can call Deployment Manager command line via a TeamCity build step. The aforementioned Tools tab also contains DeploymentManager.exe- the command line tool that automates Deployment Manager.

Hope this helps!