# Preface

This document describes the functionality provided by the Group Orchestrator plugin.

See the Deployit Reference Manual for background information on Deployit and deployment concepts.

# Description

Orchestrators in Deployit define the strategies used to combine the steps for the individual component changes into an overall deployment workflow. The default orchestrator, for instance, “interleaves” all individual component changes by running all steps of a given order for all components.

The group orchestrator groups steps based on the deployment group synthetic property on a container. All component changes for a given container are put in the same group and all groups are combined into a single deployment workflow. This allows fine-grained control over which containers are deployed to together.

## Features

- Assign containers to a deployment group
- Orchestrate a deployment so all steps dealing with containers in the same deployment group are grouped together

# Requirements

The plugin requires:

- Deployit: version 3.7+