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One page installation report of any workflow
You can define this as its own job in the "Job Library" folder and include it as a last step of any workflow you want to generate a one page report...
Fetching properties from codestation projects to perform component based automated database deployments using AnthillPro
In the case where you have a 3rd party component that does not have its own ability to mange its database changes, along with its incremental...
Home networks beware: Do not use your router as a DNS server.
This is a bit out of context, but I must share... After months and months of intermittent connectivity loss on random devices and computers on my...
How to deploy 1 file with Anthill Pro
The reason I am writing this post is because I noticed people typing this search into google, and our blog coming up. I like to look at those...
How to clean an oracle schema without administrative or dba permissions
Working in an environment where you do not have full administrative control over your oracle instances, may leave you wanting to clean your schema....
Life-cycle statuses && environment short-names in Anthill Pro
A nice convention that we've enjoyed using is to make the "environment shortnames" in environments -- synonymous with the "statuses" in the...
Storing files in the Amazon S3 cloud with your application
Amazon S3 storage is one of the best ways to backup data or store files for your web application in a secure reliable way. One of the greatest...
Performing job actions based on properties set in workflows with Anthill Pro
Sometimes, you may want conditional behavior to occur during deployment based upon user input during the "Run Secondary Process" phase. One can...
Job steps with agent filter based pre-conditions in Anthill Pro
Previously, we discussed: Creating environment specific pre-conditions for job steps in Anthill Pro. Perhaps, you want to have job step...
Creating environment specific pre-conditions for job steps in Anthill Pro
When creating deploy workflows in Anthill Pro, it's best practice to try and keep the deploying in 1 job if possible and have your environment...
Selecting agents using agent filters using roles and hosts with Anthill Pro
Best practice when setting up your deployment workflows with Anthill Pro (or any other tool for that matter) is to classify the hosts in your farm...
Terminology used in this blog
In order for all readers to put our posts in perspective, here's a listing of the terminology that will be used with explanations. Environment An...