7. Basic Deployment Flow

The standard resource deployment is performed according to the following flow:

1. Create the sdct.conf file which describes the framework configuration.
2. Setup the SDCT_CONF environment variable pointing to the sdct.conf file.
3. If necessary, add the sdct.aliases file.
4. Prepare resources meta descriptions in Syndicate operation files.
5. Deployment with the following steps: a. Create the bundle bucket in S3 (in case it is the first deploy to the target AWS account): syndicate create_deploy_target_bucket b. Collect the artifacts of the application and all Syndicate operation files, and create a bundle: syndicate build_bundle --bundle_name <bundle_name>

c. Deploy the bundle: syndicate deploy --bundle_name <bundle_name> - –deploy_name <deploy_name>

6. In case the infrastructure is not needed any more, run:
    syndicate clean --bundle_name <bundle_name> --deploy_name
    <deploy_name>

The command cleans the whole AWS infrastructure in the specified deploy, except the excluded resources, if any.