Process Editor

The process editor is a visual drag-and-drop environment. Simply drag process steps onto the design space and configure them immediately.

As additional steps are placed, relationships with other steps are defined. Select from a menu of standard steps. This menu replaces typical deployment scripts and manual processes. Deployment Automation provides steps for several utility processes, such as inventory management and workflow control.

Additional process steps are provided by plugins that offer integration with common deployment tools and application servers. Deployment Automation provides plugins for many common processes, such as downloading and uploading artifacts and retrieving environment information. A component process is defined for a specific component, and can have steps from more than one plugin.

Frequently used component processes can be saved as templates and applied later to new components. Component processes are executed by Deployment Automation agents running on hosts. One instance of a component process is invoked for each resource mapped to a component in the target environment.

Orchestrating a deployment is drag-and-drop simple. First, create a component process using components that are the building blocks of Deployment Automation. They represent deployable items and have user-defined component processes that operate on those items. Deployable items or artifacts can be:

• Files
• Images
• Databases
• Configuration materials
• Anything else associated with a software project

Components have versions that are used to ensure proper component instances get deployed.

A component process is a series of user-defined steps that operate on the artifacts of a component.

• Each component has at least one process defined for it but can include several processes
• Component processes may have only one step or may have many steps and relationships
• Component processes may also have conditional steps or switch steps

Deployment Automation process steps efficiently replace existing deployment scripts and manual processes. Choose from several default utility processes, such as inventory management and workflow control. You can also select from a list of over 80 provided plugins that offer support for many common processes, such as downloading or uploading artifacts and retrieving environment information.

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