orchardcore-deployments

Orchard Core Deployments

Use deployment plans to export configuration or content as a recipe package, then import that package into another tenant. A plan is an ordered collection of deployment steps. Enable the feature that owns each selected step on the source and target tenant before creating, exporting, or importing the plan.

Create and run a deployment plan

1. Enable OrchardCore.Deployment and the features that contribute the required steps.
2. In Configuration → Deployment Plans, create a plan, add steps, and configure each step.
3. Use the plan's Export action to download a deployment package. It is a recipe which the target imports through the Recipes administration UI or setup flow.
4. Use the plan's Execute action only when a configured deployment target is available. The Recipes feature supplies the normal recipe deployment target.

Order steps deliberately. For example, enable features first, define content types before content, configure indexes before requesting a rebuild, and create workflow definitions only after their activity-providing features are enabled.

Create a plan with a recipe

The deployment recipe step is named lowercase deployment. Its Type must be the registered deployment-step factory name, normally the class name, and Step must serialize the corresponding DeploymentStep. The plan creation fails without changes if any type is unavailable because its feature is disabled.

{
  "steps": [
    {
      "name": "Feature",
      "enable": [
        "OrchardCore.Deployment",
        "OrchardCore.ContentTypes",
        "OrchardCore.Contents"
      ],
      "disable": []
    },
    {
      "name": "deployment",
      "Plans": [
        {
          "Name": "Configuration",
          "Steps": [
            {
              "Type": "ContentDefinitionDeploymentStep",
              "Step": {
                "Id": "[js: uuid()]",
                "Name": "ContentDefinition"
              }
            },
            {
              "Type": "AllContentDeploymentStep",
              "Step": {
                "Id": "[js: uuid()]",
                "Name": "AllContent"
              }
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}