packageFeatures and packageMethod

Package Features and Method

Package Features

As CDAF has grown, there has been a constant growth in the number of helper scripts available, however, in many cases only a subset of these are needed at deploy time, so packageFeatures has been introduced to support different deployment use cases, starting with minimal.

The minimal set, as the name implies, is the smallest number of helper scripts to execute a deployment. The deployment is limited to local context, so it is recommended to reduce the processSequence in your CDAF.solution file.

packageFeatures=minimal
processSequence=localTasks.sh

Package Method, Windows Self-Extracting Release.ps1 using tarball

Now that tar is included in the windows operating system, this can be used for processing large artefact sets. The PowerShell zip process is performed in memory, and is very slow for large artefact sets, and in extreme cases, can fail when memory is exhausted. By using a tarball, the extraction is performed as a file stream, which uses nominal memory and is exponentially faster, i.e. for a 200MB package the extraction reduces from 7 minutes to 7 seconds.

In your CDAF.solution file, add the packageMethod property

packageMethod=tarball

Complete sample solutions are available for Windows and Linux.

For full release details for CDAF 2.5.7 see http://cdaf.io/release