How to deploy a single Azure WebJob to Azure WebSite with multiple jobs

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Hi,

I have an Azure WebSite that contains multiple webjobs. Using FileZilla I can update these jobs independently by using /site/wwwroot/app_data/jobs/continuous/[Jobname] directly. This lets me deploy web jobs seperately.

I have individual nuget packages for each job.

I am currently using FTP deployment for the rest of our site (standard Azure WebSites) and it works fine, but they have a root directory of /site/wwwroot/.

When I use the webjob path I get an error “The system cannot find the path specified. (code=550)”.

  1. How should I deploy individual webjobs?
  2. If I can’t, how can I deploy them as a single website and still have octopus deploy update the configuration files that are buried deep in the folder structure (i.e. not in the root folder but in /site/wwwroot/app_data/jobs/continuous/[Jobname]) as it doesn’t seem to pick these up for transformation

Thanks

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Sorry, meant to add Octopus version 2.5.8.447

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Hi

Thanks for getting in touch. I’m gonna need a few things to help you out with the troubleshooting:

  1. A screenshot of your deployment process. One that shows all the steps should do

  2. Enable the debugging variables and create a new release http://docs.octopusdeploy.com/display/OD/Debug+problems+with+Octopus+variables

  3. Send us the raw log of your deployment http://docs.octopusdeploy.com/display/OD/Get+the+raw+output+from+a+task

Good news: In Octopus 3.0 we’ll be adding a deeper Azure support so you can avoid relaying on old FTP

Bad news: In Octopus 3.0 we’ll also stop providing support to FTP deployments. We’ll add a library step for the few cases that still use FTP. On this blog post we explain why are we doing this http://octopusdeploy.com/blog/deployment-targets-in-octopus-3

Thanks!

Dalmiro

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Hi Dalmiro

The links helped me diagnose… eventually down to user error. I think the FTP 550 was transient as it seems to have gone away and the variables not being updated was due to a selection option not being set.

Thanks for the heads up on Octopus 3.0 btw. however, I have to say that when it works, FTP is actually really easy…