Manage environments

This section introduces Deployment Automation environments and provides instructions on creating and managing them.

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Environments overview

Deployment Automation environments represent logical deployment locations. Environments and their resources are used by applications and components at runtime.

Your deployment processes must run in at least one environment.

An environment brings together components with the agent that deploys them. Deployment Automation maintains an inventory of every artifact deployed to each environment and tracks the differences between them.

Environments are created at the global level and used by multiple applications. This enables you to use either shared or application-specific environments. Environments are typically modeled on stages of the software project life cycle, such as development, quality assurance, and production.

Environments can have different topologies. For example, an environment can consist of a single machine or can be spread over several machines or clusters of machines. Approvals are often required before processes can run in an environment.

After creating environments, you can create pipelines, which are sequences of environments where application process requests run. You can associate a preconfigured pipeline of environments and individual environments to an application.

Before you can run a deployment, you must create at least one environment and associate the environment with an application. Then you configure the environment for that application and its component versions. The configuration associates components with an agent on the target host. For details on configuring environments at the application level, see Application environments.

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Environments page

To work with environments, navigate to Management > Environments in the Deployment Automation user interface.

The following table describes the main tasks you can do on the Environments page.

Task	Description
View details	View the following information about an environment: Name and description Date of creation The user role that created the environment
Filter	Filter environments by their owner: Owned by me Owned by anybody
Search	Search environments by name, description, or user role.
Create	To create an environment, click the Create button. For details, see Create environments.
Import	To import an environment, click the Import button. For details, see Import and export environments.
Edit	To modify the environment's name, description, color identifier, and replication export setting, click the Edit icon next to the environment.
Inactivate	To deactivate an environment, click the Inactivate icon next to the environment. To make an environment active, click the Show Inactive button, and then click the Activate icon next to the environment.
Export	To export an environment, click the Export icon next to the environment. For details, see Import and export environments.

Individual environment page

Clicking the name of an environment opens the selected environment's page where you can further configure and monitor the environment.

The following table describes the available options on the environment's page.

Option	Description
Edit	To modify the environment, click Edit on the right.
Applications	View a list of applications associated with the environment.
Inventory	View the inventory for this environment. For details on application environments inventory, see View the environment inventory.
Timeline	View the timeline specific to this environment.
Resources	View, add, or remove resources and resource groups associated with this environment. For details, see Map agents to environments.
Properties	View and set environment properties: To add a single property, click Add Property. To add or edit multiple properties, click Batch Edit. For details, see Add or edit environment properties.
Security	Set role membership and default permissions for this environment.
Schedule	To schedule processes and blackouts, click the Schedule button and select from these options: Application process Deployment package Application environment blackout Global environment blackout For details, see Set deployment blackouts and Schedule deployments.

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See also:

• View snapshot environments
• DA Environment plugin