Looking for tips on how to speed up the build/deployment process

Hi!

First of all, I'm really impressed with PlayFab, it has a friendly community, great support and a fun system to work with. (。・∀・)ノThank you!

I'm working on a Azure DevOps pipeline where each code change should result in a new multiplayer server, up and running.

The reason behind this is that I want to be able to able to iterate quickly and test new builds with my team. My goal is to create a small multiplayer game for the Ludum Dare this weekend. :)

The server pipeline looks like this right now:

So the "Push to Playfab" script takes a lot of time, mostly spent on waiting for the build deployment.

What's causing the 10 - 20 minute deploy time?

Any suggestions on how I can get my builds up and running faster?

Maybe I should update the builds in a different way?

How would you set it up?

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Seth Du ♦ commented · Sep 30, 2020 at 02:36 AM

May I ask what does the 'Push to PlayFab' script do? I am not very familiar with Azure Pipeline, but we may be able to provide suggestions if there is more information.

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01F0 Seth Du ♦ commented · Sep 30, 2020 at 07:57 PM

Hmm test test, I can't seem to post my message

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01F0 Seth Du ♦ commented · Sep 30, 2020 at 07:57 PM

That's a custom Powershell script.

Maybe it's easier if I show the printout of what it does:

09/30/2020 20:12:55: Setting title..
09/30/2020 20:12:56: Checking if we have a previous build..
09/30/2020 20:12:56: Found existing build.. deleting.
09/30/2020 20:12:57: Waiting for the build to be removed..
09/30/2020 20:19:07: Done!
09/30/2020 20:19:07: Deleting old asset..
09/30/2020 20:19:09: Adding new Asset..
09/30/2020 20:20:05: Creating new build..
09/30/2020 20:20:06: Build command executed, now we wait..
09/30/2020 20:40:13: Deployed successfully!

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01F0 01F0 commented · Sep 30, 2020 at 07:58 PM

The build part that takes 20 minutes consists of the following snippet:

Write-Host "$(Get-Date): Creating new build.."

$NewBuild = New-PFMultiplayerBuild -BuildName 'PSTest_build'  -StartMultiplayerServerCommand 'C:\Assets\ProjectPumpkin\Binaries\Win64\ProjectPumpkinServer.exe -log -port=7777' -Ports $Ports -VMSize $VMSelection -AssetReferences $Asset -MultiplayerServerCountPerVm 1 -RegionConfiguration $Regions

Write-Host "$(Get-Date): Build command executed, now we wait.."

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01F0 Seth Du ♦ commented · Oct 01, 2020 at 02:18 PM

OK! I see..

Is it possible to warm up the VM before deploying the build? I mean so that I could start the VM, start building my server code, then deploy it when the VM is up.

I really like the immutable infrastructure here but is it possible to reuse a VM? Like, just deploy the docker container instead of the whole VM.

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Seth Du ♦ 01F0 commented · Oct 06, 2020 at 09:26 AM

Currently it is not supported, even modifying the region configuration will shut down all instances and reboot.

Please feel free to send a thread on Feature Request forum.

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