Ensconce

en·sconce/en'skäns/ Verb: Establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe, or secret place

What is this?

A .net command line tool for aiding deployment of server components.

• Update configuration files and other XML
• Initialise/update related databases
• Render arbitrary text files with environment specific variables
• Move the updated files to their final locations on disk
• 'Snapshot' the final deploy location for audit and easy roll back purposes
• Cope with multiple instances of the same component

How do I use it?

• Get a copy of your component with default configuration to the target server (at 15below we use Octopus)
• Set up your environment; Ensconce expects one of the following environment variables sets to exist:
  • ClientCode
  • Environment
  • DeployService
• OR
  • FixedStructure = true
• Run Ensconce: d:\DeployTools\Ensconce.exe -finalise -replace -deployFrom . -deployTo c:\targetDir -updateConfig
• Stuff happens: check the wiki for details