appveyorapi Cookbook

Initiates the deployment in Appveyor CI tool

Requirements

Gems

• json
• HTTParty

Chef

• Chef 12.5+

Recipes

default

Installs the AppVeyor agent

Set the following attributes:

node['environment_access_key']
node['deployment_group']


For more examples see the test/fixtures directory

Resources and Providers

Agent Install

appveyor_agent '3.12.0' do
  environment_access_key '1234abcd890432kj'
  deployment_group 'test'
end

Attributes

• version - Specify the Appveyor deployment agent version to be installed like 3.12.0 or say it as latest
• environment_access_key - Environment Access Key is a secure string used to pair Deployment agent. Specify the Appveyor environment access key.
• deployment_group - Deployment group allows matching only specific group of Deployment Agents. Specify the Appveyor deployment group name.

Start Deployment

The appveyorapi_deploy LWRP can be used to start the deployment for the specified environment in Appveyor CI using its API.

appveyorapi_deploy 'project-production' do
  api_token '1234abcd890432kj'
  account 'serviceaccount'
  project 'project'
  buildversion '1.0.1'
end

Attributes

• name - Environment name in Appveyor. It could be any Environment like Agent, FTP, Azure, etc.,
• account - Account which has privilege to start the deployment in Appveyor.
• api_token - API token for the service account in Appveyor.
• project - Name of the build project in the Appveyor to be deployed in the specified environment.
• buildversion - (optional) Build version of the project to be deployed in the specified environment. If it is not specified, cookbook will deploy the last successfully deployed build version. If you specify it as latest then it builds latest build for that project.