Bamboo deployment: manual tasks/stages (like build process)

Question

When I set up the building process I can create manual steps/stages. Can I do the same when I set up the deployment process?
I want to create three stages of deployment: enable maintenance page, deployment, disable maintenance page.
Is it possible?

David Mills · Answer

We have created a fairly comprehensive set of groovy scripts to manage our environments, builds and deploys.  One of the classes groups that can be called from any deploy sequence is a "Wait For" class hierarchy.  The condition being waited for can be almost anything - e.g. we have implementations of the Abstract class that wait for:

* an SQL query to return a certain value
* a file to exist in the file system
* a file to cease to exist in the file system
* a file of a certain name pattern to be created with a creation date greater than another named file (based on the Unix "find . -newer some-file -name \*some-pattern\*")
* etc.

These are very useful.  They allow:

* co-ordination of deploys from different Bamboo Projects (Bamboo triggers only work from builds or other deploys in the same project)
* people to perform manual steps and then touch a nominated file to cause the triggering of the wait for condition for that file to exist
* etc.

We are able to specify:

* the gap between re-checks for the condition to be met
* the timeout to return a timeout error rather than continue waiting - a 0 timeout setting means no timeout will occur

Cristiano Mariano · Answer

We really need this feature! The lack of manual tasks in Deployment Plans seems to be a showstopper for us.

Artsiom Shymano · Answer

Thanks for the answer. But I need run this task manual:
1) manual run Bamboo stage: enable maintenance page;
2) then I check maintenance page on all servers;
3) manual run Bamboo stage: run deploy;
4) then I check successful deployment on all servers;
5) manual run Bamboo stage : disable maintenance page.

I can do it in build menu, but i must do it in deployment.

My build menu:

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