Deploy Lab¶

TODO: Flow needs rewrite and new screenshots

Introduction¶

Use DevOps Deploy (Deploy) to standardize and simplify the process of deploying software components to each environment in your development cycle.

Deploy helps you meet the challenge of deploying software throughout your enterprise by providing tools that improve both deployment speed and reliability. The release automation tools in Deploy provide complete visibility into n-tiered deployments. Use the tools to model processes that orchestrate complex deployments across every environment and approval gate.

By using plug-ins in Deploy, you integrate the server with your existing middleware and organize code from your existing code repositories into components. You design processes to deploy your code by using steps that run each required task. Then, you organize your components into applications and create environments for each stage of your release process. Finally, you create an application process to set the deployment order of your components and deploy your application to an environment.

You can model the topology of your environment, specify which virtual images contain Deploy components, and provision both the environment and components to your cloud in a single action.

To learn more about DevOps Deploy please have a look at the documentation.

Overview¶

This lab provides a practical, hands-on experience in deploying an application to a target server.

Explore the comprehensive dashboard provided by DevOps Deploy, which displays key information about deployment successes and failures

How to switch to Deploy from Home Page¶

Step	Details	Additional Information
	Central App Switcher
	Or you can always switch using the central app switcher on the top left of your screen:
	What would you like to do today
	You can switch directly to Deploy by using the button/link from What would you like to do today section:

Deploy Landing Page¶

Deploy Dashboard Page

This Dashboard provides an overall view on:

Deployment statuses (Number of executions, Number of successfull ones and Number of failed ones)
How many applications and components are managed by this instance
Utilization and Health status of deployment agents (which are doing the actual deployment work)
And a timeline of deployment activities and their results

Applications ¶

TODO: talk about applications

Switch to Applications View¶

Step	Details	Additional Information
1	Switch to Applications View by clicking on the Sidebar


	View for all Applications

Create New Application¶

Step	Details	Additional Information
	If no Applications are available
	Click on the Create Application Button
	Select New Application from Menu
	The Create Application Dialog is shown
	Select "Demo"
	click on the Save Button to create new App
	Application is shown

Components ¶

TODO: talk about components

List of components

Create New Component¶

Step	Details	Additional Information
	Press Create new Component Button:
	Enter the name of the component (for example Echo) and a Description
	Select Version Source Configuration (use file system versioned for this step)
	Provide the base path from where to import versions for this component
	use "home/echologic/echo" for this example
	select "copy to Codestation" if not selected automatically
	Component successful created, first view is the Versions view
	have a look at the Components configuration, you can change it here if needed
	have a look at the processes of the component, which are empty too
	We will add processes later in this lab

Processes ¶

Environments¶

TODO: talk about environments

Run a deployment¶

Step	Details	Additional Information
1	Switch to Applications view
2	Select EchoLogic Application by clicking on the name/link
4	All Environments of Application will be shown

Request a Process¶

click on Request Process Button: Request Button on the DEV Environment

Go through dialog:

Press the Submit button: to start the deployment process.

View of Running Process¶

The details of the running process are shown:

Click on Expand All so see step details

Click on 3 dots menue of a step 3 dots menue of step View the output of the step Output of Step

Result of Run¶

The deployment run successfully Deployment Success

and updated the configuration of the environment with the deployed component versions:

Environment with deployed versions of components

Create a Snapshot¶

TODO: talk about snapshots and what they are good for

Select the Create Snapshot Icon:

Now the Environment configuration has been updated to indicate that a Snapshot is applied: Snapshot on environment

Use the Deployment Genie¶

Use Deploy Genie to understand why the deployment failed. To simulate a failed deployment request a new deployment process but now select the following:

Deployment Process Failing Deployment
Select Versions for Components
for Echo select Version 1.0
for Logic select Version 2.0.0
The result will be a failed deployment as one step has failed
Click on the 3 dots of the failing to show Menue:
Click on Deployment Genie after a few moments the step will be analyzed and the results shown