What’s ConDep?

ConDep is an open source, highly extendable Domain Specific Language for Continuous Deployment, Continuous Delivery and Infrastructure as Code on Windows.

What would I typically use ConDep for?

To effectively deploy web and other server type applications to Windows servers, together with it’s required infrastructure (like IIS, WebSites, AppPools etc).

Where can I get it?

Latest NuGet package: https://nuget.org/packages/ConDep/

Source: https://github.com/torresdal/ConDep

Who created it?

I did :-)

How do I get started?

There’s a Getting Started section over at http://con-dep.net that should help you get up to speed and there’s some sample projects on GitHub (https://github.com/torresdal/ConDep.Samples), but here’s a quick intro:

1. Create a Class Library in Visual Studio (name it Deployment)
2. Get ConDep from NuGet (ConDep not ConDep.Dsl)
3. Create an ApplicationArtifact:
   

   using ConDep.Dsl;

   using ConDep.Dsl.Config;

   namespace ConDepSamples.DotNetWebAppWithInfrastructure

   {

       public class DotNetWebApplication : ApplicationArtifact, IDependOnInfrastructure<WebServerInfrastructure>

       {

           public override void Configure(IOfferLocalOperations onLocalMachine, ConDepConfig config)

           {

               //Deploy a Web Application to remote server(s)

               onLocalMachine.ToEachServer

               (

                   server => server.Deploy.IisWebApplication

                   (

                       sourceDir:      @"..\..\..\SampleApps\AspNetWebFormApp", 

                       webAppName:     "AspNetWebFormApp", 

                       webSiteName:    "ConDepSamples"

                   )

               );

               //Test that the Web Application works by executing a HTTP GET (failes if not HTTP Code 200 is returned)

               onLocalMachine.HttpGet

               (

                    url: string.Format("http://{0}:8082/AspNetWebFormApp/", config.Servers[0].Name)

               );

           }

       }

   }

4. Create an InfrastructureArtifact
   

   using ConDep.Dsl;

   using ConDep.Dsl.Config;

   namespace ConDepSamples.DotNetWebAppWithInfrastructure

   {

       public class WebServerInfrastructure : InfrastructureArtifact

       {

           public override void Configure(IOfferInfrastructure require, ConDepConfig config)

           {

               require

                   //Install IIS with Asp.net if not present

                   .IIS(iis => iis.Include.AspNet())

                   //Add an Application Pool running .NET Framework 4.0 (.NET 4.0 must be installed and registered with IIS)

                   .IISAppPool("ConDepSamplesAppPool", appPool => appPool.NetFrameworkVersion(NetFrameworkVersion.Net4_0))

                   //Create a Web Site (id 34) on port 8082 and asociate with application pool.

                   .IISWebSite("ConDepSamples", 34, opt => opt

                       .AddHttpBinding(binding => binding.Port(8082))

                       .ApplicationPool("ConDepSamplesAppPool"));

           }

       }

   }

5. Create a config file (dev.env.json) and point to one or more servers you want to deploy to:
   

   {

       "Servers" :

       [

           {

               "Name" : "jat-web03"

           }

       ],

       "DeploymentUser": 

       {

           "UserName": "torresdal\\condeptest",

           "Password": "ReallySecureP@ssw0rd :)"

       }

   }

6. Build
7. Open cmd.exe and navigate to your bin/debug folder
8. Execute: ConDep.exe Deployment.dll dev DotNetWebApplication

Feedback is welcome :-)

Enjoy!