Adding a Server to Server Groups

[Chris R.]

We have multiple load-balanced environments, and we target our action groups at server groups rather than individual servers.

We have a couple cases where we are expanding an environment from two servers to three, and have nearly 80 apps deployed to this environment. Manually re-deploying 80 apps is a rather time-intensive process - does BuildMaster offer any other type of built-in mass-deployment-type features? Like automating the deployment of a large number of jobs to a single server?

Product: BuildMaster
Version: 4.9.7

[Alana]

There is no built-in facility to handle this, though you could of course use the API to trigger redeployments of all of these.

In general, this would fall into more of Otter's territory of configuration management. If scaling/changing infrastructure is common, then it might be worth exploring using the configuration plans -- in this case, if you added those servers to the apporpriate roles, they would automatically be updated with the proper configuration.

BuildMaster would be used to deploy the configuration and manage the pipeline, etc.

[Chris R.]

Thanks for your response, Alana. Can you elaborate a little bit on the API commands you would leverage in this instance? I had considered that before, but I'd be curious to know how you'd approach this.