Zed

Zed is a utility made to help manage environment configuration during deployment and afterwards.

Purpose

1. The purpose is to have Zed track a certain deployment directory on a server, manage environment configuration settings, automatically locate and verify dependencies.
2. In the world of .net, for example, the following will be initially included :

• Database connectionstrings
• Msmq queues
• Urls of WCF Endpoints and/or other api datapoints (...more with plugins/configuration/next versions)

3. Thoughts of Additional dependencies

• Dlls/runtimes
• IIS version compatibility
• Socket/port binds usage

Initial Goals

• Automatic mapping of projects, their dependencies and relationships using zero-configuration scanning of the deployment directory.
• Setup of initial dependency store and comparison to store on each deployment to detect new dependencies
• UI display of projects graph
• Centralized and per project views of configured dependencies (see 2.)

Thoughts of features

• Tray icon alerting unknown/new dependencies deployed (rescan on directoryChange events)
• One click deploy of service - Zed could provide dependency verification, in addition to queue creation, service or IIS site installation (autodetect framework version according to config)
• process watchdog -> notifications / nagios integration
• web UI
• custom actions on component types (example : toggle WCF tracing on dot net config file)

Need help with

• Creating a website for the project
• everything in "Thoughts of features"
• suggestions and ideas
• documentation