Release Automation

Hi,

I am trying to use the action "ROC - Fail Deployment Step" to fail my PrePlan if some actions fail.

Everything works perfectly but it does nothing...

The action fails, then the action "ROC - Fail Deployment Step" runs successfully but afterwards, the next action coming in the process (at the end of the flow) runs when it should not...

So, is it possible to execute the action "ROC - Fail Deployment Step" in PrePlan and PreDeployment ?

PrePlan creation is called from the create-deployment-plan/ REST service and we need to receive a response if there is some irrecoverable error that occurs during that step, so we need to be able to fail the PrePlan.

How can we do ?

Regards.

This action work as any other action in the process that he part of ,when the action succeed it will cancel the deployment steps but not its own.

You can use soap call after the success of the fail deployment step action to stop the process.

Hi Jacky,

Do you mean the stop-release/ service ?

I tried to stop using curl command just to try :

curl -u <USER>:<PASSWORD> -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"releaseId":"218770"}' http://<DNS_CARA>/datamanagement/a/api/v3/stop-release

And get the message :

{"result":false,"description":"releaseId[218770] not exist."}

But when I go on ROC, I can access the URL : http://<DNS_CARA>/datamanagement/index.jsp#/main/releases/218770

Regards.

There is stop process  soap call where you can use the job id to stop it.

Sorry but could you give me the name of that soap call, I cannot find nothin in REST API search URL.

Regards.

jacky was talking about the SOAP API, not the REST API:

SOAP API Reference - CA Release Automation - 6.1 - CA Technologies Documentation

OK, never heard about that SOAP API, I will have a look at it once I have time.

Thank you for your help.

Regards.

Hi,

So, it worked using the Action "SOAP Request" and calling the StopJob Service.

Help about the OpenAPIService can be found at :

http://<CARA_DNS>/datamanagement/docs/index.html

http://<CARA_DNS>/datamanagement/ws

An easy way to find how to structure the XML request is to use a tool as SoapUI and call the WSDL : http://<CARA_DNS>/datamanagement/ws/OpenAPIService?wsdl

To use the Action "SOAP Request" it is necessary to have the XML request as a file, so first, we have to use an action  to create that file.

So the actions to stop a Plan (in the right order), should be :

1 - "ROC - Fail Deployment Step"

2 - "Add Text to a file" : to create the XML Request

3 - "SOAP Request" to call the StopJobService

Thank for the help.

Regards.

FWIW, I have experimented with the /stop_release REST API call and found that it appears to work to terminate a deploymen, although it does so "quietly." You'll need to pay atttention or build in some notification stuff to know that a deployment has failed, and of course, there's no opportunity to review run-time data once the deployment has terminated.

Hi Mark,

That is exactly what I did, I send and email before stopping the deployment and yes I lose runtime data once deployment has finished so I use it only for quite known cases.

But when the following idea is implemented, Action inputs/outputs should be stored and visible historically , it will be OK.

Regards.