has anyone used pants for selectively deploying applications? I’m curious how pants fits into your CI/CD pipelines. I’m specifically looking at cdk based deployments which I’ve read some older threads on

I wrote a plugin that integrates with my company's in-house gitops. Basically we have a target for each application that knows where to update it's reference and does that.

did you use the experimental deployment target type for that or something else? (I’m brand new to pants) I found that

run_shell_command

can’t reference another

run_shell_command

so I’m not able to create a dependency chain of targets that way, but I wasn’t sure if that just a limitation of the run_shell_command or of all run goal types

I used a custom goal and target type. I'm not familiar with the shell backend so I'm not sure what sort of dependency inference it's capable of. Maybe try wrapping your scripts in a

shell_sources

target and set that as a dependency for your

run_shell_command

target.

I don’t think thats exactly what I want, because I wanted both run targets to execute in order. Do you have any code you could link to for a custom goal / target? Otherwise I’ll read through https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/rules-api-goal-rules