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| sleepyjamie |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
And how would you deal with the same version but different bar overrides?  |
Good question.
We use classifiers in Artifactory to determine various environments. For example: We have a separate bar files for each environment Test, Stage, Production.
Same version of the codebase but different bar overrides results in three bar files being created and each have a label "TEST", "STAGE", "PROD". Also our build script is versioned as well. Meaning each TEST, STAGE, PROD environment properties are contained in the GIT tag.
In the Java world the Manifest also contains the classifier. I guess in IIB world it would not, so we rely on the Artifactory server to handle this. Once deployed we know can easily look at the application on the IIB server and inspect its overrides. The version is more tricky.
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| And how would you deal with the same version but different bar overrides? |
Well you'd hope the different overrides would be caused by different use cases and I would encode those use cases in the application or flow with $MQSI.
The OP could add it to the bar file name (which could rapidly become unwieldy). Though it sounds rather like they produce a single application and deploy it singly ("immutable micro-service") rather than reuse it with different overrides as you describe. |
Ok this might be a good way forward. I'll check our the $MQSI keyword. thanks! |
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| fjb_saper wrote: |
| And how would you deal with the same version but different bar overrides? |
Well you'd hope the different overrides would be caused by different use cases and I would encode those use cases in the application or flow with $MQSI.
The OP could add it to the bar file name (which could rapidly become unwieldy). Though it sounds rather like they produce a single application and deploy it singly ("immutable micro-service") rather than reuse it with different overrides as you describe. |
Ok this might be a good way forward. I'll check our the $MQSI keyword. thanks! |
Er... wouldn't you have at least a different override by environment, not just use case?
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| And how would you deal with the same version but different bar overrides? |
Well you'd hope the different overrides would be caused by different use cases and I would encode those use cases in the application or flow with $MQSI.
The OP could add it to the bar file name (which could rapidly become unwieldy). Though it sounds rather like they produce a single application and deploy it singly ("immutable micro-service") rather than reuse it with different overrides as you describe. |
Ok this might be a good way forward. I'll check our the $MQSI keyword. thanks! |
Er... wouldn't you have at least a different override by environment, not just use case? |
Yes and no. The version of the code is all the same across each environment, just a different configuration. |
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| sleepyjamie wrote: |
Yes and no. The version of the code is all the same across each environment, just a different configuration. |
Lucky you, apparently not much change...
I remember having different versions in dev, qa, perf, pre-prod(bug-fix) and prod... all due to functional changes in the consuming app. qa, perf and pre-prod being essentially the same environment just in a different time slice...
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| sleepyjamie wrote: |
Yes and no. The version of the code is all the same across each environment, just a different configuration. |
Lucky you, apparently not much change...
I remember having different versions in dev, qa, perf, pre-prod(bug-fix) and prod... all due to functional changes in the consuming app. qa, perf and pre-prod being essentially the same environment just in a different time slice... |
Yeah we had this as well, and unfortunately it was a nightmare to maintain 
We do have different configurations for each environment (e.g. file path, queue names, etc..) but the code for each environment is the same. Keep in mind, the configuration in each environment may enable/disable certain code. |
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| Every version control system allows keywords to be inserted into text files, ... |
... except for IBM's Rational Team Concert.  |
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