Sprinkler on CodePlex

Today I published on CodePlex my first project, Sprinkler.

It is both a tool and a framework, based on Powershell v2, aimed at simplifying deployment of applications, especially BizTalk-based. It stands on the shoulders of giants as it extends the Deployment Framework for BizTalk: this latter is focused on deploying a single BizTalk application, while Sprinkler manages multiple BizTalk applications and multiple servers.

Notable features are:

• Parallelization of execution — the tool must be run on all servers of the farm and will operate concurrently as much as possible, reducing deployment time window;
• Can be run from a central location by leveraging Powershell v2 remoting;
• Script based — requires Powershell v2, no additional component to install on any server; you can Zip everything and send it to a different site;
• Flexible layout — keep all the files in a single share or spread them in different locations to keep sensitive information in a safe place or in a read-only folder;
• Simple configuration — all parameters for execution are contained in just two files;
• Interactive and unattended mode — an menu driven wizard helps choosing the script to run and its parameters;
• Complete and centralized logging in plain text files;
• Can execute sections of code in 32-bits for compatibility;
• Rich library for operating BizTalk — stopping host instances, setting host adapters, starting and stopping applications in order, BRE rules managing;
• Add new scripts and functions that leverage all above features.

Feedback is more than welcome, and apologize for bugs and lack of documentation.

Comments

• Anonymous
  September 29, 2010
  Very nice Giluio. Will take a detailed look at the codeplex bits and send more feedback. Benjy

• Anonymous
  November 15, 2012
  Been using this a lot. Hopefully it will have more updates soon. Active/passive configuration is hard to handle in this version