Cloud Deploy adds deploy hooks for easier rollouts
Darien Lin
Software Engineer
Mehrshid Fadaei
Product Manager
Editor’s note: This blog post was updated to reflect the general availability status of these features as of October 30, 2023.
Cloud Deploy is a fully managed continuous delivery platform that automates the delivery of your application. Recently, we’ve heard from users that they want Cloud Deploy to also perform self-defined pre- and post-deployment operations to reduce the amount of additional toil required for each rollout. Examples of such operations include database schema updates, application infrastructure deployment, and network configuration adjustment.
Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Cloud Deploy deploy hooks. With this launch, Cloud Deploy now offers an easy way to define and execute pre- and post-deployment operations as part of a rollout.
Deploy hooks
The ability to run user defined actions immediately before and after deployment is a powerful feature that allows DevOps organizations to build out complete CI/CD pipelines to meet their specific deployment needs.
With the introduction of deploy hooks in Cloud Deploy, you can now take advantage of this capability by configuring your delivery pipeline to include pre-deploy and post-deploy actions. These actions take advantage of the custom actions defined through Skaffold. When enabled, two new jobs — predeploy and postdeploy — will be performed when deploying a rollout into a target.
Deploy hooks are supported for all target types (GKE, Cloud Run, Anthos, and Multi-Target) and can be used with all deployment strategies, such as canary deployments.
Rollout with predeploy and postdeploy configured
As enabled, deploy hooks can be used in a variety of ways, such as:
- Performing a database migration prior to deployment
- Performing infrastructure deployment prior to application deployment
- Interacting with third-party platforms post deployment, such as sending out an email or updating an open task tracker
Like other rollout jobs, Cloud Deploy provides the same observability and control for predeploy and postdeploy jobs. This includes the ability to view logs and perform control over individual jobs, such as retry, terminate, or ignore — all within the same rollout details interface.
Interested in exploring deploy hooks for yourself? Get started now with our quickstart and documentation!
The future
Comprehensive, easy-to-use, and cost-effective DevOps tools are key to building an efficient software delivery capability, and it’s our hope that Cloud Deploy will help you implement complete CI/CD pipelines. Stay tuned as we introduce exciting new capabilities and features to Cloud Deploy in the months to come.
In the meantime, check out the product page, documentation, quickstarts, and tutorials. Finally, If you have feedback on Cloud Deploy, you can join the conversation. We look forward to hearing from you!
