Trigger a Deployment from a Remote Agent in a Custom Plugin Task

Question

Do to the nature of our rather complex (and required) deployment pipeline, we want to simplfy things by adding a manual Stage containing a custom plugin that will Trigger related Deployment Project deploys.

To allow invocation on the Bamboo Server this can be implemented with a combination of DeploymentProjectService, EnvironmentTriggeringActionFactory, and NonBlockingPlanExecutionService.

See:

https://github.com/vicsz/bamboo-trigger-deployment-task/blob/master/src/main/java/com/bambooplugin/impl/DeploymentTriggerTask.java

However the problem that I encounter is that is will not work on Remote Agent because of the more limited access available on it.

See:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Answers-Developer-Questions/Bamboo-plugin-not-found-on-agents/qaq-p/478515

As expected when I check the Remote Agent Logs I see that the plugin failured to load due to missing dependencies.

is waiting for unsatisfied dependencies [[&applicationProperties, &deploymentProjectService, &nonBlockingPlanExecutionService, &environmentTriggeringActionFactory]]

The question is how to I solve this for remote agents ?? .. It seems like RuntimeTaskDataProvider is only meant for getting Server Side data,  how does one go about invoking something on the Server Side (from a Remote Agent) such as a deploy.

Thanks

Victor Sz · Answer

Adding solution for anyone thats interested.

We ended up just scripting the deploy using Gradle + Bamboo API Calls.

We created a seperate Release Pipeline Plan , with different Manual Stages for different environments.

Snippet is available at:

https://gist.github.com/vicsz/b04c31f27a91b0d32b55b1bf718ab705

Adam Slaski · Answer

Hi Victor,
There is a plugin Pre-Post Build Command Runner (https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.sysbliss.bamboo.plugins.prepost-build-command/server/overview) that can run a shell command on an agent or on a server.
This is not exactly what you asked for, but I hope you find it useful. In case you would like to extend that plugin, please find the source code repository here: https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/bamboo-prepostcommand-plugin .

Victor Sz · Answer

Thanks Adam,

I think that's the solution that i'll be taking ..

For future reference, is there a way to have a Build Task run actions on the Server (not via Rest).  Some kind of PostBuild Task, etc ?