Bamboo Integration

Question

Hello folks, This is my second question on Bamboo( My First One). I am very new to these type of work. my understanding after reading suggested info, i need a build tool,like, nAnt or MSbuild to write a script that gets the source code and builds it( i am working on a .net 3.5 with silverlight project). after, when deploying, i need to write scripts to move my files to the diff servers. please tell me whether i am going in the right direction or not. can i use ant, maven, bash scripts to do the same with a .net project. Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

Yes, that is true:

• Bamboo is the central management server which coordinates all work

• Bamboo itself has interfaces and plugins for lots of types of work

• Bamboo basically needs to first get your source from a source repository (lots of plugins here for a variety of systems)

• Then it needs to do the build - that can be done by using MSBuild to build your Visual Studio solution, or it could be a batch file to call your XYZ compiler and linker to create your app - whatever it is you have and use
• Once your solution or project is built, you have "artifacts" (build results, e.g. executable app, config files, etc.) lying around
• with those results, you can do additional things:
  • zip them up into a ZIP file and copy them somewhere
  • run a install builder on them and create an MSI
  • install them on a test server to make sure everything installs just fine

The sky's the limit! :-)

But in general: Bamboo is just the "orchestrator" - the coordinator. The actual work is done by either direct Bamboo plugins (of which there are plenty), or then you can call external command-line apps by means of a unix script or Windows batch file.

Marc