Overview#

This week we're excited to finally turn our attention to what happens during and after deployments. To date, we haven't talked about it much but container deployments on our servers a big part of our infrastructure.

From the outset, we knew selling repositories would require a work demonstration of what the actual code did. While other platforms require you to bring a working URL, we thought it'd be cool to offer that as part of our service. So, we built a pretty sophisticated demo / deployment workflow that's based on docker containers but hosted on our servers.

A screenshot showing your deployment configuration

Long story short, when submitting a repository to Playbooks you have the option to deploy your project onto our servers using the following strategies:

1. Using a pre-configured template from the marketplace
2. Manually entering your configuration
3. Supplying your own dockerfile file
4. Or, supplying your own docker-compose.yml file (this is stil in beta)

After editing your configuration, you can then deploy the project and trace the logs all in one place.

A screenshot showing your deployment logs.

For now, we've split your logs into the following tabs ['build', 'deploy', 'container'] and here's what they do:

Build#

A screenshot showing your build logs.

Your build logs stream the various steps our demo servers go through when deploying a repository.

Deploy#

A screenshot showing your deploy logs.

Your deploy logs stream the output that come from the commands you configured as part of your deployment.

Container#

A screenshot showing your container logs.

Your container logs stream the output that come from the container after your application is running.

Shell#

A screenshot showing your shell logs.

Your shell logs stream the output that result from various commands you run from inside your container.

That's all for now#

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