Essentials of UrbanCode Deploy Applications

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Essentials of UrbanCode Deploy v6.1
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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 Tab
1.
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 tab
2.

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 version
Runs 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
1
2

Click the Add Status
button
Enter details and Save
3
4

5
6
7
Choose 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
1
2
3

Application Properties
Application properties can be accessed by any application
process or component process run against an environment
within the application
1
2
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
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 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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