deploy Variable

The deploy variable can be used to reference information about the deployment within a release. This can be used to access information such as the resulting instance ID, IP address, etc.

The exact fields within a deploy variable are dependent on the plugin used for the build and the available fields are documented alongside plugins.

Example: AWS ECS

The example below uses the deploy variable to store the ECS Task ARN as a label as part of the release operation. While Waypoint keeps track of the backlinks of what deployment created a release, this information may be useful to have directly in a label:

app "web" {
  deploy {
    use "aws-ecs" {
      # ...
    }
  }

  release {
    labels = {
      "example.com/task-arn": deploy.task_arn,
    }

    use "aws-ecs" {
      # ...
    }
  }
}