Quick Deployment

This guide walks you through running your first deployment in Mantis.

Prerequisites

Before creating a deployment, ensure you have:

• At least one target registered, approved and online, and an environment to deploy under
• At least one action, sequence, or solution to deploy

Note

Contact your administrator if you don’t see any targets or environments.

Creating a Deployment

Step 1: Navigate to Deployments

1. Open the Deployment group in the top navigation, then the Deployments pill
2. Click New Deployment button

Step 2: Deployment Context (the Context tab)

Choose the tenant and an environment. Lens labels the environment “Optional”, but it is required whenever a tenant is set — a tenant deployment without one is refused with environment_id is required for tenant-aware deployments.

Step 3: Select What to Deploy (the Source tab)

Choose one of:

• Solution - A complete deployment package
• Sequence - An ordered set of actions
• Action - A single command or script

Step 4: Select Targets (the Targets tab)

Choose the destination using one of three selection modes:

• By Target - Select specific targets individually
• By Tags - Deploy to targets matching specific tags, matched ANY or ALL
• By Pool - Dispatch to an execution pool, which runs off-target

Note

An environment is a deployment scope, not a destination, and it does not supply targets to an ordinary deployment — you still choose them here. Its own target assignments are resolved only by promotions and rollbacks.

Step 5: Configuration (the Config tab)

Option	Description
Execution Mode	Parallel, Sequential, or Rolling
Failure Strategy	Stop on first failure, Continue on failure, or Ignore failures
Timeout	Maximum execution time

Step 6: Review and Deploy (the Review tab)

1. Review the deployment summary
2. Click Deploy
3. Monitor progress in real-time

Monitoring Your Deployment

After starting a deployment:

1. View real-time progress in the deployment detail view
2. Click on individual targets to see execution logs
3. Use the log streaming to watch output live

Troubleshooting

Caution

Deployment Failed? See Troubleshooting Deployments for common issues.

Next Steps

• Understanding Concepts - More on the data model
• Creating Actions - Define your own actions