Ensconce

en·sconce/en'skäns/ Verb: Establish or settle (someone) in a comfortable, safe, or secret place

What is this?

A .net command line tool for aiding deployment of server components.

• Update configuration files and other XML
• Initialise/update related databases
• Render arbitrary text files with environment specific variables
• Move the updated files to their final locations on disk
• Cope with multiple instances of the same component
• Deploy SSRS reports

Deploying A Release

Each release contains a nuget package which is an Octopus deployment package.

There are 3 required variables, these are:

• DeployPath - set to the folder you want to deploy Ensconce too
• IncludeK8s - set to True or False depending on if you want Kubernetes deployments
• VersionNumber - set as #{Octopus.Release.Number} in order to get the right version number

How do I use it?

Documentation for how to use ensconce can be found at https://15below.github.io/Ensconce/