Updating environments
You can apply a blueprint to a running environment to update the environment.
- Connect the blueprint design server to the server. See Connecting the blueprint design server to the server.
- Create a blueprint and configuration file, and ensure that these files are
appropriate for the target cloud system:
- Modeling environments for SoftLayer
- Modeling environments for Amazon Web Services
- Modeling environments for VMware vCenter
- Modeling environments for VMware vRealize Automation
- Modeling environments for OpenStack and OpenStack-based clouds
- Modeling environments for Microsoft Azure.
- Modeling environments for Google Cloud Platform
- Add components from IBM® UrbanCode® Deploy to the blueprint; see Deploying components with blueprints.
- Create an application environment on the IBM UrbanCode Deploy server.
When you create a blueprint in the blueprint editor and add components, the blueprint appears on the IBM UrbanCode Deploy server as an application process. You can run this process on an existing environment to update the environment to match the blueprint.
For example, you can change the component versions that are deployed to the environment and then run the application process to deploy the new versions. You can also add virtual images to the environment.
When you update an environment in this way, the things that you can change depend on what parts of an environment the target cloud can update without re-provisioning the environment. Some target clouds can update different things than other clouds.