Importing specific application processes

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Application processes define the steps required to deploy, manage, or rollback specific application. You can import specific application processes to reuse a standardized deployment across multiple applications or environments without recreating a process each time.

Before you begin

You must have ensured that the application process source file to be imported is a JSON or YAML file.

About this task

By importing processes in IBM DevOps Deploy (Deploy), you can incorporate specific deployment logic for applications and reuse them across different environments.
Note: When you export components, applications, processes, or templates, and then import them on a different computer, you must ensure that you install the same versions of the same plug-ins on both computers.

Procedure

  1. Log in to Deploy.
  2. Click Applications.
    The list of Applications is displayed.
  3. Select the application to which you want to import the process.
  4. Click Processes > Import application process.
    The Import application process dialog is displayed.
  5. Select Process Upgrade Type from the dropdown list.
  6. Click Choose File to upload the import process source file that you want to import.
    Notes:
    • You must create the JSON file that contains the component definition on a server that uses the same version of Deploy as the destination server.
    • Only JSON and YAML file types are supported.
  7. Click Submit.

Results

You have imported the specific application process. The imported application process is listed in the Processes tab for the application.

What to do next

You can set environment-specific properties by editing the process in the process editor. See Editing processes.