Question

Hot deploy changes on production without restart

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We would like to make simple changes to pages or design to be done in real time or in other words hot deploy in production without any restart of the production environment. Currently we’re running on the mendix cloud. is there a way to achieve this?

asked 2018-10-10

Faisal Shoaib

5 answers

Andreas Blaesius · Answer 1 · 2018-10-10

No, but it sounds like a great Idea for the Idea forum.

Gerrit Kiefer · Answer 2 · 2018-10-10

No, if you have done changes on code of your app, you need to rebuild a package on base of the last commit and you need to deploy this, which includes a final restart.

Faisal Shoaib · Answer 3 · 2018-10-11

Thank you Gerrit.

Though, It seems too archaic that for updating just text or stylesheet or javascripts changes to one single page out a few hundred; that we have to restart the whole application.

Isn't there a way to apply hot patches to production application, especially when we're not making any logical changes to the data model or microflows?

best regards,

Faisal

Sytze de Bok · Answer 4 · 2018-10-11

For text changes you could save the text in an attribute and create editor pages for these attributes. But that's a pretty limited solution. Usually a restart only results in a downtime of about 1-2 minutes, so with proper timing it's not that big of a deal.

Faisal Shoaib · Answer 5 · 2018-10-11

Thank you for the help folks.

i guess i'll raise this in the Ideas section now, for potential future release.