I have created a pipeline that automates the process of opening & closing service-now tickets. I am using the “promote” feature for that pipeline currently.
the only issue I’m having is that after running the pipeline, I have to manually click on the “DEPLOY” button & fill out the information in “create a deployment” box to trigger the automation of tickets. (View pictures)
is there a way to automate this? to automatically create a deployment every time i update my code in GitHub?
The Deployment button is designed for teams that want to manually trigger a deployment. Since you want to automatically trigger a deployment every time you update code, you would just append steps to your standard pipeline that run your deployment tasks …
kind: pipeline
type: docker
name: default
steps:
- name: build
image: golang
commands:
- go build
- go test
+ - name: deploy
+ image: ...
+ commands: ... # your deployment tasks here
Thanks for your suggestion @ashwilliams1.
In this case, would the build be tagged as a promoted deployment, though?
I am currently doing this and having a deployment step just after building, however this sort of drops Drone’s deployment functionality as those are not listed under the deployment tab.
Ideally we could have:
steps:
- name: build
image: golang
commands:
- go build
- go test
# if build passes, promote it
- name: promote
image: ...
commands:
- drone build promote
trigger:
event: [push]
---
steps:
- name: deploy
image: ...
commands: [...]
trigger:
event: [promote]
and, then adding another pipeline responsible for only perform the deployment? Based on the promotion itself? This way we know that deployments always reflect what’s listed on Drone.
Would there be any way to trigger a promotion event from inside a pipeline, or perhaps, simply a way to tag a build as deployed by keeping the pipeline steps you have suggested?
Or perhaps you would have another suggestion?
Thanks in advance