Folder "/apps" been overwritten during deploy

[sirbrunocabral]

We are facing a problem related to deploy, when we start the deploy of a project, any other project that is already on the environment loses the content of the created pages, basically goes away.

Since our company's repository does not have external access, we can not use the git submodules to deploy multiple projects. So we create a structure with a parent folder (with the pom.xml and dispatcher folder) that receive one of our projects, and then we do a push to adobe in branch set to start our pipeline.

In our main POM.XML we change the deployed project and push to adobe repository.

This does not happen in the local environment. We tried to change the "filter.xml" file using "mode=update" but without success.

Checking CRXDE Lite we saw that "/apps" folder was completely replaced

[aanchal-sikka]

Hello @sirbrunocabral 

I am hoping this is an AEM as a Cloud Service instance. In cloud, when images are created during deployment, only mutable content is retained, like /content /conf etc.

No custom code would be retained from previous /apps. Only the folders from the current branch would be available under /apps.

You would have to merge /apps code from all the projects/modules into one branch for deployment.

[sirbrunocabral]

Hello @aanchal-sikka.

It is AEM as a Cloud Service instance.

So when I have to deploy to cloud, I need to include in build all project that's already on environment?

How does it work properly with multiple project?

[aanchal-sikka]

hello @sirbrunocabral 

Sharing a documentation which caters to the query. I hope it helps !

https://experienceleague.adobe.com/docs/experience-manager-cloud-service/content/implementing/using-... 

https://www.initialyze.com/insights/handle-multiple-projects-with-cloud-manager 

[sirbrunocabral]

Thanks for the answer @aanchal-sikka! 

In this doc I saw that we have to put two projects in a pom.xml and build both simultaneously. Is there a way where we build only the project that has changed?

[aanchal-sikka]

@sirbrunocabral : As per my knowledge, we need to build all the projects.

Its not possible to build selectively on AEM as a Cloud Service

[Jörg_Hoh]

That can be achieved quite easily, if you follow this approach:

• configure your PROD pipeline to deploy from a "stage-deployment" branch.
• Project A and Project B work on distinct branches.
• Whenever they want to bring something into Production, they merge it into the "stage-deployment" branch.

[sirbrunocabral]

Hello @Jörg_Hoh,

How this "stage-deployment" branch should be structured? Did I need to overwrite everything on it with the project that need to be deployed?

Thanks in advance!

[Jörg_Hoh · Accepted solution]

@aanchal-sikka  already shared the link how to correctly setup your git repo for such cases. See https://www.initialyze.com/insights/handle-multiple-projects-with-cloud-manager

Create this structure in your "stage-deployment" branch, and then each team can branch off from there and create their own working branch. When they are done, they merge back to the "stage-deployment" branch, which is then deployed to the Stage and PROD environments.

[sirbrunocabral]

Thanks for the answer!

So we will have to build all projects every time we push changes into one of them, right?

[Jörg_Hoh]

Yes; in AEM CS there is no "incremental deployment" possible with the FullStack Pipeline.

[sirbrunocabral]

Thanks for the help!

One last question: is there any kind of unavailability during this deploy?

[Balaram_Rudra]

it would be helpful if you share the filter.xml of ui.apps and pom.xml of the ui.conf

[sirbrunocabral]

Sure,

/ui.apps/src/main/content/META-INF/vault/filter.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<workspaceFilter version="1.0">
    <filter mode="update" root="/apps/webapp--adobe-experience-ds/clientlibs" />
    <filter mode="update" root="/apps/webapp--adobe-experience-ds/components" />
    <filter mode="update" root="/apps/webapp--adobe-experience-ds/i18n" />
</workspaceFilter>

/ui.config/pom.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
 |  Copyright 2015 Adobe Systems Incorporated
 |
 |  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 |  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 |  You may obtain a copy of the License at
 |
 |      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 |
 |  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 |  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 |  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 |  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 |  limitations under the License.
-->
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <!-- ====================================================================== -->
    <!-- P A R E N T  P R O J E C T  D E S C R I P T I O N                      -->
    <!-- ====================================================================== -->
    <parent>
        <groupId>com.webapp.adobe.experience.ds</groupId>
        <artifactId>webapp--adobe-experience-ds</artifactId>
        <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
    </parent>

    <!-- ====================================================================== -->
    <!-- P R O J E C T  D E S C R I P T I O N                                   -->
    <!-- ====================================================================== -->
    <artifactId>webapp--adobe-experience-ds.ui.config</artifactId>
    <packaging>content-package</packaging>
    <name>Design System - Componentes PAN - UI config</name>
    <description>UI config package for Design System - Componentes PAN</description>

    <!-- ====================================================================== -->
    <!-- B U I L D   D E F I N I T I O N                                        -->
    <!-- ====================================================================== -->
    <build>
        <sourceDirectory>src/main/content/jcr_root</sourceDirectory>

        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.jackrabbit</groupId>
                <artifactId>filevault-package-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <properties>
                        <cloudManagerTarget>none</cloudManagerTarget>
                    </properties>
                    <packageType>container</packageType>
                    <showImportPackageReport>false</showImportPackageReport>
                    <repositoryStructurePackages>
                        <repositoryStructurePackage>
                            <groupId>com.webapp.adobe.experience.ds</groupId>
                            <artifactId>webapp--adobe-experience-ds.ui.apps.structure</artifactId>
                        </repositoryStructurePackage>
                    </repositoryStructurePackages>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>com.day.jcr.vault</groupId>
                <artifactId>content-package-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.webapp.adobe.experience.ds</groupId>
            <artifactId>webapp--adobe-experience-ds.ui.apps.structure</artifactId>
            <version>${project.version}</version>
            <type>zip</type>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</project>