Rollback on a per-site basis

pr0fess0r

Hi
At the moment we have OD deploying to two different websites but if one fails, it rolls back BOTH the sites, not just the one that failed.
Looking at the config file...
Even though transactional is set to no here:

<deployment transactional="no" >
<execDeploymentTask useDefinition="site1.com" />
<execDeploymentTask useDefinition="site2.com" />
</deployment>

it is set to yes at the top of the config file, here:

<replicationFarmSet >
<replicationFarm name="MYFARMNAME" quorum="" >
<nodeRef useNode="server2" transactional="yes">
</nodeRef>
</replicationFarm>
<replicationFarm name="MYFARMNAMELOCAL" quorum="" >
<nodeRef useNode="MyLocalHost" transactional="yes">
</nodeRef>
</replicationFarm>
</replicationFarmSet>

so if I want rollbacks to occur on a per-site basis, should I do this:

<replicationFarmSet >
<replicationFarm name="MYFARMNAME" quorum="" >
<nodeRef useNode="server2" transactional="no">
</nodeRef>
</replicationFarm>
<replicationFarm name="MYFARMNAMELOCAL" quorum="" >
<nodeRef useNode="MyLocalHost" transactional="no">
</nodeRef>
</replicationFarm>
</replicationFarmSet>

<deployment transactional="yes" >
<execDeploymentTask useDefinition="site1.com" />
</deployment>
<deployment transactional="yes" >
<execDeploymentTask useDefinition="site2.com" />
</deployment>

so each site deployment is a separate transaction that rolls back if it fails, independent of the other deployments?
can I have two <deployment> elements in the same config?
it's been suggested i could make this into two separate deployment config files, but another deployment we have here has dozens of site deployments in one file. having separate files for each of these would be a pain

cheers

Adam Stoller

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<deployment transactional="yes" >
<execDeploymentTask useDefinition="site1.com" />
</deployment>
<deployment transactional="yes" >
<execDeploymentTask useDefinition="site2.com" />
</deployment>so each site deployment is a separate transaction that rolls back if it fails, independent of the other deployments?
can I have two elements in the same config?

The former (above snippet) is not syntactically correct and thus will not provide the result you are looking for.
The latter would work - by changing the above to look like:<deployment transactional="yes">
<execDeploymentTask useDefinition="$site^"/>
</deployment>and change the invokation of the deployment to include:iwodcmd start deployment -k site="site1.com"and/or:iwodcmd start deployment -k size="site2.com"If you want to be able to run both deployments at the same time you would need to further modify the invokation to:iwodcmd start deployment -k site="site1.com" -inst unique_stringand/or:iwodcmd start deployment -k size="site2.com" -inst unique_string

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com