Scheduling Deployments

Deployment Automation has a built-in deployment scheduling system for setting regular deployments, or even black-out dates, for your Deployments. Deployments for an individual application are scheduled on a per-environment basis. Black-out dates are set within the individual environments.

Creating a Schedule

To set up a scheduled deployment, navigate to Application > Environment > Request Process. If you are scheduling a snapshot deployment, navigate to Application > Snapshots > Request Process instead. Regardless of the type of deployment you are scheduling, the configuration is the same.

After you select the Schedule Deployment check box, Deployment Automation will prompt you to give the date and time you want the deployment to run. The Make Recurring setting will deploy the application on a regular schedule. For example, if you are practicing continuous delivery, the Daily option will deploy the application to the target environment every day.

Once you have scheduled the deployment, it will be added to the calendar. There, if you click the scheduled deployment, you can edit, delete, or investigate the deployment.

Setting Blackouts

A blackout is a set per environment, per application. Once set, no deployments or snapshots can be scheduled to occur in that environment. Any previously scheduled deployments to the environment will fail if they fall within the blackout date you set. To set up a blackout, go to Application > Environments > Calendar > Add Blackout. If you need to set blackouts for more than one environment, you must do this for each individual one. Deployment Automation will prompt you to give the dates and times for the blackout.