Editing blueprints with the blueprint designer

When you work with blueprints, you can use a graphical editor or a source-code editor.

Creating files with the blueprint designer
You can create blueprints, configuration files, text files, binary files, and folders in the blueprint designer.
Editing blueprint diagrams
You can edit blueprints in a graphical editor.
Editing blueprint source code
You can edit the Heat Orchestration Template (HOT) source code of blueprints directly.
Editing configuration files
Configuration files are lists of properties and values. You can use configuration files to provision the same blueprint on multiple cloud systems.
Converting TOSCA files to blueprints for the blueprint designer
You can convert Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications (TOSCA) files to the HOT format and import them into the blueprint designer.
Creating composite blueprints
You can create a composite blueprint by importing the contents of a saved blueprint into your active blueprint.
Modifying blueprints to access the Chef validator key in version 6.2.1 and later
If you upgrade your blueprint design server to version 6.2.1 or later, you might need to modify references to the Chef validator key before you provision environments from existing blueprints.