Understanding deployment status at various deployment stages - Part 2

Products

• CA Release Automation - Release Operations Center (Nolio)
• CA Release Automation - DataManagement Server (Nolio)

Issue/Introduction

Introduction:

Each deployment in Release Automation has various stages it undergoes during it's execution time. We have seen various time where there is lot of confusion around its understanding and mixing up of this with process status.

Due to length of this document we have created it as series document with two parts in which we are going to provide and overview of various deployment status and understanding there impact on each deployment stages.

Background:

Each deployment in Release Automation has various mentioned below stages, stage status and deployment status. Deployment in Release Automation logically can be considered as parent entity encapsulating one or more processes and its status are not comparable with that of process status. The important analogy which is worth remembering is that Deployment/Release is a set and each process is a set member. Below is a tabular presentation of Deployment stage, stage-status and deployment status.

 

Stage	Initialize	Approval	Deployment	Post Deployment
Current Stage Status	Pending	Running	Paused	Running with Errors	Succeed	Failed
Deployment Status	Active	Failed	Succeeded	Cancelled

 

Environment:

The information in this document is captured from Release Automation version 5.5.X.

Instructions:

Scenario-1

• Current stage: Deployment
• Stage status: Paused
• Deployment status: Active

Release Stage

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Deployment Status

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Scenario-2

• Current stage: Deployment
• Stage status: Failed
• Deployment status: Failed

Release Stage

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Deployment Status

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Scenario-3

• Current stage: Deployment
• Stage status: Running With Errors
• Deployment status: Active

Release Stage ( the below screen shot is showing the corresponding Process stage to understand better why status of "Running with Errors" is shown on Stage Status)

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Deployment Status

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Additional Information:

• If any action of a process fails with error, waits for user input etc. the execution stage of release will either be “running with errors” or “running”
• We need to understand that an actions are member of process set and processes are member of release/deployment set. Deployment status action is linked to Release/Deployment state

Reference:

Understanding deployment status at various deployment stages - Part 1

Environment

Release:
Component: RACORE