Deploy using artifact from artifactory

Question

Is there a way in Bamboo to deploy artifacts from artifactory rather than only local published artifacts? I've found the Artifactory Plugin but as far as I could see, it only allows for deploying stuff into artifactory.

I'm using Bamboo 5.4.2

Answer 1

You can use your build server to deploy from Artifactory to your application server, that's a very detoured way to go. You already uploaded all the binaries to Artifactory why would you want to download them to the build server again?

You have number of ways to get the needed files to your application server right from Artifactory, without involving the CI server, and the selection depends on how complicated your requirements are. If all you need is to get the latest version of some artifact from Artifactory to app server, tools like LiveRebel are a great match. If you need to do more, eg deploy on sophisticated topology of clustered environment with sharded data schema upgrade without downtime, you might need something more free-style like Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt .

In any way, Artifactory Properties and the REST API to work with them are your best friend. Using properties in your REST queries for artifacts allows expressing queries like "Give me all the artifacts that were produced by certain Bamboo build, but only those, which were staged, have the QA level of 'production' and matching the target deployment target".