Ask the Expert - Pega Deployment Manager with Linoy Alexander
Join Linoy (@Linoy_Alexander) in this Ask the Expert (August 12th - 16th) session on Pega Deployment Manager.
Message from Linoy Alexander: Hello all, I am passionate about enabling customers of the Pega platform, developing to adopt DevOps practices of Continuous Integration, Delivery and Testing. I can answer questions about Deployment Manager but also more broadly about DevOps practices as well. I look forward to all your questions and enabling you on your DevOps journey.
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Morgan Stanley
IN
We use Jenkins to move our branches to our SOR instance. When we initiate branch merge locally it will trigger a Jenkins Job, which will initiate a SUT instance (a container) to run several smoke tests. Only when the smoke tests pass we merge it to SOR.
Is it possible to achieve the same using Deployment manager. I mean check and then merge, not merge and then check.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
The workflow you are referring to here is not supported (yet) by Deployment Manager. This is planned as part of a future release with direct support for provisioning container based deployments with custom gated validation.
In the meantime, Deployment Manager does support gated merges (Pre-merge validation) with the ability to enforce guardrail compliance scores, PegaUnits and the review status. This does provide plenty of value if you leverage PegaUnit tests which is highly recommended anyway. See the help for how to configure this : https://community.pega.com/knowledgebase/using-deployment-manager-44x#specifying_merge_options
Accenture Services Pvt.ltd
IN
Hi,
Currently, the application pipeline in Deployment Manager can be triggered on Branch Merge or manually. Is there a way to trigger the pipeline from an external tool such as Jira or Rally?
Regards,
Namitha.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Thanks for your question Namitha.
Starting in 4.4, there are publicly REST APIs that have been exposed to manage key aspects of the pipeline. These APIs should allow you to integrate the trigger from any tool of choice, including Jira or Rally as you intend. There is complete swagger documentation available and the following resources are available (with a sampling of the actions available)
- pipelines
- Start deployments : POST /pipelines/{pipelineid}/builds
- Get the status of a deployment : GET /pipelines/{pipelineid}/builds/{buildid}
- mergerequests
- Get information about a merge request : GET /mergerequests/{mergerequestid}
Below is a screenshot of the swagger document for a better idea.
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
Hi,
Currently, the application pipeline in Deployment Manager can be triggered on Branch Merge or manually. Is there a way to trigger the pipeline from an external tool such as Jira or Rally?
Regards,
Madhu Sekhar
Prime Therapeutics
US
Hello,
While upgrading Pega Deployment Manager, after importing the rulesets I tried to change the version of PegaDeploymentManager to 4.4, but it threw an error while saving saying that as follows
pxDeploymentManagerStudio is not a Valid Record for use by this Rule.
Can you help me on this.?
Thanks,
Hemanth.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Hemanth, you are likely seeing this because you are trying to save this access group without the DeploymentManager application in the application stack. This should fix the problem you are seeing.
carelon
IN
Hi Linoy,
If we add a manual step in the pipeline, the approver gets the option either to Complete the task or Reject the task as shown below.
Hi Linoy,
If we add a manual step in the pipeline, the approver gets the option either to Complete the task or Reject the task as shown below.
But as part of our requirement we want to display a confirmation popup on click of Complete Task/Reject Task. Looks like all the rules related to this are final. Can you please let us know if there are any extendable rules available to implement the change?
Pega Version- 07.04.01
Deployment Manager Version- 03.04.01
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Currently this is not possible as you have noticed. We have plans to support more advanced manual approval workflows and experiences in the future. We will take your feedback here and add it to the backlog.
In the meantime, once thing you could do is to leverage the email approval experience, if you wanted to documented trail and perhaps this can give you the experience you are looking for as a workaround. You can set it up so that the users have to do the approval only through email notification and not through the Deployment Manager portal, either by restricting access to the orchestrator or by leveraging the roles and privileges features in DM 4.x series. You can get a sense for it in the Whats New video published a while back.
Sun Life Financial Company
CA
Hi Linoy,
We need to use JFrog repositoies for PEGA Deployment Manager.
We have a question regarding how to specify the JFog artifactory folder in Deployment Manager configuration? In a JFrog repository, it can have multiple folders. So the JFrog repository structure is like repository-aaa/xxx, repository-aaa/yyy, and repository-aaa/zzz. We want to put the zip file of application xxx to repository-aaa/xxx, put the zip file of application yyy to repository-aaa/yyy and so on. But I cannot find a place in Deployment Manager configuration to specify this. So what is the mechanizm of PEGA Deployment Manager? Will all the zip files of various applications be put into one repository without the ability to specify the sub folders? Or I missed some configuration points to do so?
Thanks!
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Currently Deployment Manager does not support custom folder hierarchies per application or pipeline. That noted there are a couple of options that you could consider.
Currently Deployment Manager does not support custom folder hierarchies per application or pipeline. That noted there are a couple of options that you could consider.
- Deployment Manager by default organizes by application-version as you can see in the screenshot below
- You can create a repository instance per application where the key is the folder that matches the application. Therefore application xxx, will get a repository instance where the key will be xxx which maps to the repository-aaa/xxx location. The pipelines for each of the applications should just refer to the specific repositories instances configured.
Hope that helps
Sun Life Financial Company
CA
Hi Linoy,
I'm doing a POC for Deployment Manager. I use my localhost as the Deployment Manager. Now when the development candidate tries to connect to the Deployment Manager, it uses localhost in the URL so the "Candidate system was not able to connect to orchestrator" error is thrown. Is there any place in development candidate that I can specify the Deployment Manager URL so that it can use the real IP address instead of localhost?
Thanks!
Sun Life Financial Company
CA
Hi Linoy,
The localhost issue has been solved. Please ignore that question.
Could you please answer my question about artifactory sub folder I posted above?
Thanks!
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Glad to hear that it has been resolved. Just for reference we do recommend that https://localhost" values not be used for the target environment urls. It should be a direct IP address, load balanced URL or appropriate host URL.
Prime Therapeutics
US
Hello Linoy,
When we created the pipeline and started the deployment process, it shows the process as ONGOING and it never ends but the artifact was saved in the repository but pega didn't say anything about the repository being saved, it just keeps running.
Is there any configuration that needs to be done.
I just configured the Pipeleine to generate artifact and save it in repository.
We configured S3 repository for our artifacts.
Attaching the screenshots.
Thanks.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
In this case, I think it would be helpful to inspect the logs of the development system where the artifact generation, application export action is taking place. You should check and see if there are any exceptions in the log as part of the export process. Other troubleshooting tips, double check that the diagnostics all pass completely for the pipeline, which you can execute from Actions-->Diagnostics.
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Thank you all for participating in the session. For further help there are some FAQ guides that have been published that can be good reference for the future : https://collaborate.pega.com/discussion/deployment-manager-faq-and-troubleshooting-guideshttps://collaborate.pega.com/discussion/deployment-manager-faq-and-troubleshooting-guides
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
Thank you everyone for the great questions and a special resounding Thank you to @Linoy Alexander for being our expert!!
