gep13 / Cake.WebDeploy

WebDeploy addin for Cake

Cake.WebDeploy

Cake-Build addin that extends Cake with WebDeploy commands for publishing to IIS

Table of contents

1. Implemented functionality
2. Referencing
3. Usage
4. Example
5. TroubleShooting
6. Plays well with
7. License
8. Share the love

Implemented functionality

• Deploy websites from a package or folder
• Locally / remotely using credentials
• Outputting the trace information to the cake log
• Testing changes using WhatIf flag

Referencing

Cake.WebDeploy is available as a nuget package from the package manager console:

Install-Package Cake.WebDeploy

or directly in your build script via a cake addin directive:

#addin "Cake.WebDeploy"

Usage

#addin "Cake.WebDeploy"

Task("Deploy")
    .Description("Deploy to a remote computer with web deployment agent installed")
    .Does(() =>
    {
        DeployWebsite(new DeploySettings()
        {
            SourcePath = "./src/Package.zip",
            SiteName = "TestSite",

            ComputerName = "remote-location",
            Username = "admin",
            Password = "pass1"
        });
    });


Task("Deploy-Folder")
    .Description("Deploy to/from folders")
    .Does(() =>
    {
        DeployWebsite(new DeploySettings()
        {
            SourcePath = "./src/Website/",
            DestinationPath = @"C:/src/Websites/Test/",

            Username = "admin",
            Password = "pass1"
        });
    });


Task("Deploy-Url")
    .Description("Deploy to Azure using a custom Url")
    .Does(() =>
    {
        DeployWebsite(new DeploySettings()
        {
            SourcePath = "./src/Package.zip",
            PublishUrl = "{WEBSITENAME}.scm.azurewebsites.net",

            Username = "admin",
            Password = "pass1"
        });
    });


Task("Deploy-Fluent")
    .Description("Deploy using fluent settings")
    .Does(() =>
    {
        DeployWebsite(new DeploySettings()
            .FromSourcePath("./src/Package.zip")
            .UseSiteName("TestSite")
            .UseComputerName("remote-location")
            .UseUsername("admin")
            .UsePassword("pass1"));
    });


Task("Deploy-WhatIf")
    .Description("See what would occur when publishing (WhatIf) and files should be deleted if they don't exist (Delete)")
    .Does(() =>
    {
        DeployWebsite(new DeploySettings()
        {
            SourcePath = "./src/Package.zip",

            Username = "admin",
            Password = "pass1",

            Delete = true,
            WhatIf = true
        });
    });

RunTarget("Deploy");

Example

A complete Cake example can be found here.

TroubleShooting

A few pointers for correctly enabling WebDeploy scripting can be found here.

Plays well with

If your looking to manage IIS its worth checking out Cake.IIS or if your running a WebFarm inside AWS then check out Cake.AWS.ElasticLoadBalancing.

If your looking for a way to trigger cake tasks based on windows events or at scheduled intervals then check out CakeBoss.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 - 2016 Phillip Sharpe

Cake.WebDeploy is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.

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