About Plugins

Plugins implement integrations with external products to provide core functionality for Release Control. After applying the Release Control configuration in SBM Configurator, all default plugins are already installed for you. You can access Release Control Administration from SBM Configurator to add plugins and one or more unique configurations for each plugin.

Default Plugins

Release Control installs the following plugins as part of the default installation:

• Atlassian JIRA
• CA Nolio
• ChangeMan ZMF *
• Deployment Automation *
• Dimensions CM *
• Jenkins
• SBM *
• ServiceNow

* Example configurations for these are included in the Release Control installation.

Provider Types

Plugins implement object and execution provider types. In the default plugins, object provider type is used for requests and deployment units and execution provider type is used for deployment tasks. Each plugin can implement any number of variations of provider types as needed, so only one plugin is needed per integrating product.

For information on creating custom provider types, see the Release Control SDK Reference.