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Module overview

After completing this module, you should be able to complete these tasks:

Create and properly scope Applications Create environments and Application processes Create tags Use and create approvals, notifications, and status gates Use and create properties Create blueprints


What are applications?

Applications handle orchestration of deployments to a target environment


Application terminology• Components

• Must define which components belong to the application

• Environments• Define target servers• Add specific resources to

environment

• Processes• Define steps to install, configure,

rollback

• Blueprints• Set up a new environment quickly


Application scoping

Defining an application:• Determine what components need to be deployed

together

Components Composite Application


Creating an application

Click on Applications Tab

Click on Create New Application

1.

2.


Creating an application

3.

Fill out information and click Save button

Application now shows up in Applications list


Adding components to an application

Choose the Application needing components

1.

2.Click on Components tab

Before adding components to an application, they need to be created first. See Components module for more information on creating components


Adding components to an application

Choose the Application needing components

3.

Choose the components to add

4.

The components added here will also need to be added to an application environment. Instructions on how to add these resources to environments are available on the “Adding Resources to Environment” slide.


Applications: environments

Environments are a collection of resources to required to host an instance of an application.

• Resources include agents (servers) and components

Environment resources


Applications: Environments

• Environments within Applications can have different topologies, configurations, and settings for the environment


Environment topologies

A single server with an agent installed contains all three components: Database, Web, and Config

Two servers with an agent installed on each. The DB server contains the Database component and the Web server contains the Web and Config components

A more distributed and production-ready topology. Each server has an agent installed with the DB server still containing the Database component, but there are load-balanced Web Servers that each contain a Web and Config component


Creating an Environment

Click on Applications Tab1.

Click on Create New Environment

2.


Creating an environment

Fill out fields and click Save button

3.


Adding Resources to Environment

Under Environments tab, choose environment to add resources to

1.

Before adding resources to an environment, they need to be created first. See Resources module for more information on creating agents


Adding Resources to an Environment

2.Under Resources tab, click on Add Base Resources

Choose Resources to add to the environment


Applications: Processes

Application Processes provide overall deployment orchestration.

Steps in an application process represent the various component processes and tasks necessary to perform a deployment.


Application processes versus component processes

• In many cases, application processes call component processes.

• Application processes run on the server; component processes run on an agent.

• Application process steps do not come from plug-ins.

• Component process steps come from plug-ins. • Component processes (created from plug-in steps)

operate on plug-ins.


Creating an Application Process

Under Applications tab, choose the application for the process

1.

Choose the Processes tab2.


Creating an Application Process

3.Click the Create New Process button


Application Process Steps

Choose a component deployment

process to run

Deploy multiple components in

one step

Remove all component

versions from the environment

Switch between different

incremental component

versions

Runs a component process for each

component versionRuns a generic

process on each resource that is affected in the

application process

Runs an Operational (non-version) or

config deployment process


Application Process – Tag Usage

Tags can be set on resources within an environment to exercise fine-grained control over which resources a deployment is run on. A common use for this is in a load-balancing situation.


Application Process – Tag Usage

When adding an Install Component step, there is a choice to limit the deployment to a specific resource tag


Application Approvals and Status Gates

In addition to roles and permissions, there are ways to ensure an environment is not tampered with or left in an undesirable state

Environment approvals can be set to require an administrator or manager to approve a process run against an environment

• Particularly useful in production environments

Status Gates can check a component version in an environment for a certain status before that version is deployed

• Example – Only deploy component versions with a “Passed all tests” status


Creating Approvals

Choose the environment that needs approvals enabled

1.

Click on Configuration tab

2.


Creating Approvals

Check Require Approvals box and Save the settings

3.


Creating Approvals

Check Require Approvals box and Save the settings

4.


Creating Approvals

Choose from three approval tasks

Each approval task can be associated with approvers with different roles. If all three tasks are selected, the environment will require three separate approvals to move forward with a process.

5.


Creating Status Gates

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Click the Add Status button

Enter details and Save

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7Choose environment that requires gate(s) and add conditions


Application Notifications

Add a notification scheme to the application• Notifications will be sent out to appropriate parties

based on scheme• Create schemes and configure mail settings under

main Settings tab

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Application Properties

Application properties can be accessed by any application process or component process run against an environment within the application

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3


Application Blueprints


Think about it

Why should you . . . ?


Demonstration: Demo name

The instructor will show you how to complete these tasks:

Do this.

And this.


Exercise

The goal of this exercise is …

Try the following: Do this. And this.


Discussion

Working in groups, discuss these questions:

How was your approach different in terms of language and diagrams? Better or worse?

What would make it better? Tooling? Process? Training?


Lab: Lab name

Complete these tasks: Do this. And this.


Review

Why should you do this?

What are the best practices for this?

Name some examples of when you might need to do this.


Module summary

In this module you learned…


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