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CRX Content Package Deployer Plugin
Deploys content packages to Adobe CRX applications, like Adobe CQ 5.4, CQ 5.5, and AEM 5.6. Also allows downloading packages from one CRX server and uploading them to one or more other CRX servers.
Features
- Supports password-less HTTP Signature authentication using your configured SSH Private Keys, eliminating the need to
coordinate password exchange between developers, devops, and operations teams. - Downloads and/or deploys 1-to-many CRX packages per execution, and deploys each CRX package to 1-to-many servers per
execution - The multiselect-enabled Package Choice Parameter allows for execution of parameterized builds using a selection
widget populated with a list of packages retrieved from a CRX server.
Credentials Support
CRX login credentials are managed using functionality provided by the Credentials Plugin. Users are encouraged to provide a description for each set of credentials and to organize their credentials using Domains, which are regularly filtered by this plugin's components according to Base URL parameters. These practices reduce confusion while increasing reusability and security.
HTTP Signature Support
In addition to username/password login, this plugin also supports HTTP Signature client authentication using SSH User Private Key credentials, which in turn is provided by SSH Credentials Plugin. The server side of this functionality can be setup in Adobe Granite/CRX servers by installing the Sling HTTP Signature Authentication Handler.
See also:
Components
Deploy Content Packages to CRX
CRX Content Package Choice Parameter
Download Content Packages from CRX
Replicate Content Packages from CRX
Build a Content Package on CRX
Deploy Content Packages to CRX
Summary
The "Deploy Content Packages to CRX" build step can be added to any job type to upload and install CRX content packages from the workspace, or a local directory, if specified. The logic is designed to be flexible in regards to how the package files are created and organized within the directory, because it will recursively scan and identify any files which have a ".jar" or ".zip" extension. Feel free to use this step immediately after a maven build, or after the "Download Content Packages from CRX" step, or after resolving maven artifacts from a repository manager into the workspace. Once a package has been identified (i.e. has a valid group:name:version), the package will be checked against the Package ID filter to determine whether it must be uploaded to the configured Base URL(s).
If a package installation succeeds with errors "(check logs!)", the build will be marked as unstable.
Configuration
Console Output
CRX Content Package Choice Parameter
Summary
The CRX Content Package Choice Parameter is a build parameter which allows a user to select any number of content
packages available for download from a CRX server as as a valid, newline-separated Package Id field value, which can
then be used in other components provided by this plugin.
Configuration
Build with Parameters
Download Content Packages from CRX
Summary
The "Download Content Packages from CRX" build step can be used on any job type to download content packages to the workspace. Use the CRX Content Package Choice Parameter to select one or more packages from a live CRX Package Manager service. Downloaded packages are organized according to their CRX installation path, relative to the workspace path, or local directory, if specified.
Configuration
Console Output
Replicate Content Packages from CRX
Summary
The "Replicate Content Packages from CRX" build step can be used on any job type to asynchronously replicate content packages from one or more Granite servers to their configured replication targets, such as AEM publish servers. Use the CRX Content Package Choice Parameter to select one or more packages from a live CRX Package Manager service. This is probably not the most deterministic way to install packages on publish servers, so prefer using the "Deploy Content Packages to CRX" step whenever possible.
Configuration
Console Output
Build a Content Package on CRX
Summary
Create and build a content package on CRX by specifying a workspace filter, and then download it to the workspace to get archived as a backup, or as the beginning of a magical content package adventure, full of drama, suspense, and deployments to lower environments!
Configuration
Console Output
Validate CRX Content Packages
Summary
Validate that content packages in the workspace conform to restrictions on the scope of their WorkspaceFilter and on the types of embedded files. Use this to enforce security policies to prevent developers from deploying content or code through continuous integration. Only package files with .zip or .jar extensions will be identified and deployed.
Configuration
Console Output
Version History
Version 1.2 (Mar 20, 2014)
- Added "Build a Content Package on CRX" build step
- Added "Validate CRX Content Packages" build step
- Added support for globbing patterns in the Deploy and Validate steps' Package ID field, as an alternative to Package ID filters.
- Added a Wait Delay field for the Deploy step to help address bundle installation race conditions.
Version 1.1 (Mar 13, 2014)
- Added "Replicate on Install" option to "Deploy Content Packages to CRX" build step
- Added "Replicate Content Packages from CRX" build step
- Added validation-specific timeout options to the "CRX Content Package Deployer - HTTP Client" global options
- Fixed a bug in the granite-client-packman library where reserved and illegal characters in Package Ids were not being escaped when constructing URLs.
Version 1.0 (Jan 5, 2014)
- Initial release