Deploy Lab¶

Work in Progress

This section is being updated. Content and screenshots will be added in the next revision.

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¶

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 ¶

Coming Soon

A full walkthrough of the Applications section will be added here. For now, see the Applications sub-page for step-by-step instructions.

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 ¶

Coming Soon

A full walkthrough of the Components section will be added here. For now, see the Components sub-page for step-by-step instructions.

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	`home/echologic/echo`
	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¶

Coming Soon

A full walkthrough of the Environments section will be added here.

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¶

Step	Details	Additional Information
1	Click on Request Process Button
2	On the DEV Environment
3	Select Deployment Process
4	Select Version or Snapshot
5	Uncheck Deploy Only Changed
6	Click Choose Versions Button
7	Select Component Version (first component)
8	Select Component Version (second component)
9	Press Submit to start the deployment

View of Running Process¶

Step	Details	Additional Information
1	The details of the running process are shown
2	Click on Expand All to see step details
3	Click on 3 dots menu of a step
4	View the output of the step

Result of Run¶

Step	Details	Additional Information
1	The deployment ran successfully
2	Environment updated with deployed component versions

Create a Snapshot¶

Coming Soon

A description of snapshots and their purpose will be added here.

Step	Details	Additional Information
1	Select the Create Snapshot Icon
2	The Create Snapshot dialog opens
3	Review snapshot details (step 1)
4	Review snapshot details (step 2)
5	Environment configuration updated — Snapshot is now applied

Use the Deployment Genie¶

Step	Details	Additional Information
1	Request a new deployment process to simulate a failure
2	Select Deployment Process Failing Deployment
3	Select Versions: Echo → v1.0, Logic → v2.0.0
4	The result will be a failed deployment
5	Click 3 dots menu of the failing step to show menu
6	Click Deployment Genie — results shown after analysis