Plugins

Plugins implement integrations between external products and Release Control. Plugins enable you to relate external requests to your release items, execute actions through external tools through Release Control tasks, and install deployment units from diverse sources onto target environments.

Default Plugins

When you apply the Release Control configuration in SBM Configurator, all default plugins are installed for you. You can then use Release Control Administration to add plugin instances and one or more unique configurations for each plugin. See List of Available Plugins.

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 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 plugins, see the Release Control SDK Reference.

For details, see the following:

• Installing Plugins
• Adding Plugins
• Upgrading Plugins