Creating Environments

Environments represent a set of resources to which deployable release trains and release packages may be deployed. Environments manage and give visibility into the scheduling of maintenance and other events in environments, flagging any scheduling conflicts. Deployable release trains and release packages are scheduled into environments in deployment paths.

Environments are created in the Environments process app. These are logical representations of the physical environments used by your organization. Typical environments include testing, staging, and production.

To create an environment:

1. In Work Center, click New.
2. Search for the project that will store your environment, and then select the project to open a Submit form. (By default, the Environments project is used to store environments.)
3. Fill out the required fields and any optional fields.
   • Select the accessibility of the environment as follows:
     • Standard: Release packages can be promoted into the environment by users other than the Release Manager.
     • Restricted: Only the Release Manager can promote release packages into the environment.
   • Select whether deployment approval is required. If Yes, approval will be required upon promotion to this environment.
4. Click Submit.
5. Click Place Online.

Tabs

The tabs available from an environment once it is created are as follows:

• Calendar: View scheduled items for the environment and schedule maintenance or other activities for the environment.
• Approved Requests: View the deployment requests that have been approved for this environment.
• Pending Requests: View the deployment requests that are pending approval for this environment.
• Deployment Units: View the deployment units deployed to this environment.
• Approval Rules: View the approval rules that apply to this environment.
• Notes/Attachments: View notes and attachments that have been added to the item through the Work Center More option and related email correspondence.
• History: View the history of the item.