Manually starting a deployment

 

Bamboo can start deployments either by automated triggers, or by starting the process manually.

Manually executing the deployment gives you the ability to start the process at your convenience, without having to wait for a scheduled event or trigger to take place.

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Manually starting a deployment

Deployment projects can be viewed and managed from the 'All deployment projects' screen. Think of this as a dashboard view of all of your deployment projects. You can also start deployments from this screen.

To manually start a deployment

  1. From the 'All deployment projects' screen, click on the associated Deploy icon:

    The 'Deployment preview' screen will display:

    The deployment preview screen comprises a left hand 'settings' side and a right hand preview and information side. Bamboo will attempt to display a preview or information to reflect the choices made on the settings side. 

  2. Using the radio buttons, decide if you wish to create a new release from a build result or promote an existing release to the deployment environment.
  3. If creating a new release from a build result:
    1. Check the Create new release from build result radio button
    2. Select the Plan branch you wish to use:
    3. Select the Build result you wish to use:

      You can only choose results from successful builds, and since (and including) the last release created on this particular branch.
    4. Check that the name of your release is correct:

      If you need more information about where the default name comes from, click on the 'i' icon.
    5. Click Start deployment

  4. If promoting an existing release:
    1. Check the Promote existing release to this environment radio button
    2. Select the Plan branch you wish to promote (optional):
    3. Select the release that you wish to promote:


    4. Click Start deployment
Last modified on Aug 29, 2017

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