Environments

Managing environments

Environments are used typically to support the application lifecycle, as it is moving from Development to Production. In Self Service, they also allow you to test a feature in isolation, by making the environment Private.

Creating An Environment

  1. To create a private environment, visit the Environments page and click on the New environment button. You will see a form as below:

New environment

  1. Fill the form with the required information:

    • Name: A suitable name identifying this environment.

    • Short name: A short name that will uniquely identify this environment.

    • Description: A short text describing the purpose of the environment.

    • Color: Choose a color as you like.

    • Instance: Choose the instance in which this environment should be created.

    • Visibility: Choose PRIVATE. Private environments are only visible to the owning group (your team). They are not included in dashboard visualisations.

    • Authorization Issuer: This option indicates if any deployments on this environment should be AUTO approved or requires approval from Topic Owner. For private environments, only AUTO can be selected.

    • Owners: Choose your DevOps team here. If not found, refer to the section Creating a group

    • Viewer Groups: (Optional) Choose the groups that you want to give them view authorities for the Topic Configurations and Application Authentications configured on this environment. Please refer to Viewer Groups section.

    • Properties: Define environment-specific properties here. Can be left empty.

  2. Click on Add Environment to create the environment. It will now be shown in the Environments page

Updating An Environment

  1. To update an environment you own, visit the Environments page and click on the environment you want to edit.

  2. Click on the Edit environment button. On the bottom right, you see the below page:

Edit environment

  1. Fill in or change any information you need and click the Update environment button to update the environment’s information.

Changing the Environment Short name or Instance is only allowed when there are no topic configurations defined in that environment.

Deleting An Environment

Deleting an environment is only possible for "Private" environments. To delete an environment, open the Environment Detail page, click "Delete environment" and confirm your action.