Why does BuildMaster perform my plan 3-4-5 times?

I have never seen this before.

I create a pipeline, create plans for each stage and on execution BuildMaster executes the plan to perfection, only it does it 3 times, sometimes 4 times, sometimes 5 times.

What's going on? :-)

Product: BuildMaster
Version: 5.8.1

Can you share your Pipeline JSON? Perhaps we can help determine it.

Sure, see below:

{
"Name": "OrbitusAppService.Premnitz",
"Color": null,
"Description": "",
"EnforceStageSequence": true,
"Stages": [
{
"Name": "Integration",
"Description": null,
"TargetExecutionMode": "Parallel",
"Targets": [
{
"PlanName": "Deploy OrbitusAppService.Premnitz to Integration",
"EnvironmentName": "Integration",
"BuildImporterTemplate": null,
"ServerNames": [],
"ServerRoleNames": [],
"DefaultServerContext": 2
}
],
"Gate": {
"UserApprovals": [],
"GroupApprovals": [],
"DeploymentWindows": [],
"AutomaticApprovals": []
},
"PostDeploymentPlan": null,
"PostDeploymentEventListeners": [],
"AutoPromote": true,
"Variables": {}
},
{
"Name": "Development",
"Description": null,
"TargetExecutionMode": "Parallel",
"Targets": [
{
"PlanName": "Deploy OrbitusAppService.Premnitz to Dev",
"EnvironmentName": "Development",
"BuildImporterTemplate": null,
"ServerNames": [],
"ServerRoleNames": [],
"DefaultServerContext": 2
}
],
"Gate": {
"UserApprovals": [],
"GroupApprovals": [],
"DeploymentWindows": [],
"AutomaticApprovals": []
},
"PostDeploymentPlan": null,
"PostDeploymentEventListeners": [],
"AutoPromote": false,
"Variables": {}
},
{
"Name": "Testing",
"Description": null,
"TargetExecutionMode": "Parallel",
"Targets": [
{
"PlanName": "Deploy OrbitusAppService.Premnitz to Test",
"EnvironmentName": "Testing",
"BuildImporterTemplate": null,
"ServerNames": [],
"ServerRoleNames": [],
"DefaultServerContext": 2
}
],
"Gate": {
"UserApprovals": [],
"GroupApprovals": [],
"DeploymentWindows": [],
"AutomaticApprovals": []
},
"PostDeploymentPlan": null,
"PostDeploymentEventListeners": [],
"AutoPromote": false,
"Variables": {}
},
{
"Name": "Acceptance",
"Description": null,
"TargetExecutionMode": "Parallel",
"Targets": [
{
"PlanName": "Deploy OrbitusAppService.Premnitz to Accept",
"EnvironmentName": "Acceptance",
"BuildImporterTemplate": null,
"ServerNames": [],
"ServerRoleNames": [],
"DefaultServerContext": 2
}
],
"Gate": {
"UserApprovals": [],
"GroupApprovals": [],
"DeploymentWindows": [],
"AutomaticApprovals": []
},
"PostDeploymentPlan": null,
"PostDeploymentEventListeners": [],
"AutoPromote": false,
"Variables": {}
},
{
"Name": "Production",
"Description": null,
"TargetExecutionMode": "Parallel",
"Targets": [
{
"PlanName": "Deploy OrbitusAppService.Premnitz to Prod",
"EnvironmentName": "Production",
"BuildImporterTemplate": null,
"ServerNames": [],
"ServerRoleNames": [],
"DefaultServerContext": 2
}
],
"Gate": {
"UserApprovals": [],
"GroupApprovals": [],
"DeploymentWindows": [],
"AutomaticApprovals": []
},
"PostDeploymentPlan": null,
"PostDeploymentEventListeners": [],
"AutoPromote": false,
"Variables": {}
}
],
"Variables": {},
"PostDeploymentOptions": {
"CreateRelease": true,
"CancelReleases": false,
"DeployRelease": true
}
}

Your "DefaultServerContext" is "AllInEnvironment" (2).

In this case, you will get one execution per server in each environment. Each execution will be implicitly wrapped with "for server <<servername>> { ... }".

If, within your plan, you're setting server context by doing something like, "for server PRODSV1 {... }", you should choose "None" (0).

OMG I totally overlooked that.

Thanks!