About this task
When you model application environments in the blueprint designer, the blueprints you
create appear in two places on the
IBM UrbanCode Deploy
server: as blueprints and as application processes. Therefore, there are two ways to apply a
blueprint for a cloud that you connect to through OpenStack Heat to an
IBM UrbanCode Deploy environment:
- You can create an environment from the blueprint. In this case, the blueprint creates
the environment and runs the application process on the new environment.
- You can run the application process on an existing environment. In this case, the
blueprint behaves like an application process.
The following steps cover creating an environment from a blueprint. To run a blueprint on
an existing environment as though the blueprint was an application process, see
Updating environments.
Results
The blueprint design server provisions the cloud resources and creates an application
environment in
IBM UrbanCode Deploy.
Then, the
IBM UrbanCode Deploy
server runs the component processes that are listed in the blueprint.