I have finished my first full-fleet deployment using OttoDeploy/OttoFMS… Aside from a few bumps it went well. The OttoDeploy/OttoFMS look great! Nice UI refresh.
I have a couple requests. I am aware the OttoDeploy is a web interface but I sorely miss a couple feature from its FMP predecessor:
- File Select/Deselect (already reported in a separate thread)
- Found Set
In Otto v3 I would perform a FIND of the migrations to work though. Let’s say UI updates. This would narrow my work list to 13 from 30 in my migrations. As I work the list, I would omit the completed migration and move onto the next.
Two things that would vastly improve OttoDeploy:
- Selection Checkbox in the Deployments List View
- Find Action to select only the deployments with the check box enabled
To be clear, I do not want to select X number of deployments in the master list and tell OttoDeploy to GO. (While that may be nice to select all and run, it would TERIFY me to run that.)
All I would like to do is:
- Find all UI update deployments (14 found of 35 total)
- Set a checkbox
- Then Find All deployments with the checkbox enabled (13 found)
- Work a deployment, uncheck a box
- Find All deployments with checkbox enabled (12 found)
- Rinse and Repeat
Once the work list is empty, I can do something else.
This is what my process looks like now:
The list the left is my work list. The OttoDeply list in the middle is all of the migrations I have defined. (At least the ones that fit the view.) The OttoFMS open on the right is the LAST ONE for today.
I was only about to run 3 deployments at a time. When doing both UI and DATA/DOCs deployments, It gets too confusing to have more than 3 running at a time.
The OttoDeploy list is getting blurry for me right now. I have been sitting here for 5 hours updating FMS, Windows Server OS and our solution files on 13 servers. The last 3 hours have been updating all 600+ solution files.
Thoughts?
Jeff