No deployment while transformation

User Story: As an orchestrator, I want to fill the target artifact with all information needed for deployment afterwards.

Problem

Most of the credentials/information of the environment (like a service address) are only available as soon the application is deployed.

Considered Alternatives

• Deploy the application during transformation to get the credentials
• Create scripts to read out the credentials during deployment (after transformation)

Decision Outcome

• Chosen Alternative: creating scripts

Pros and Cons of the Alternatives

Deployment during transformation

• + plugin is able to get the credentials
• + target artifact contains all information for deployment
• - user maybe just want to transform and not to deploy
• - target artifact is not portable
• - if service on provider is changed, the user has to transform again

Create scripts

• + separation of transformation and deployment
• + target artifact is portable
• + target artifact is reusable
• - more effort to implement
• - scripts has to be created in a generalized way