Deployment Groups

It is possible to define a service with fillable deployment YAML template, and define groups that are connected to this service with parameters to fill the deployment YAML with. Once defined in the DB, you can use a group infinite times to deploy. For example, if you want to deploy a service with different commit version on several Kafka topics, you can define the service ONCE, use "kafka_topic: {{ kafka_topic }}" in the deployment YAML, and then define a group per Kafka topic and deploy whichever version you'd like.

Deploying with groups is much like deploying without groups, with small changes. For example, when starting a new deployment, if the service you chose is meant to be deployed on groups, you will get an additional screen where you will have to choose groups.