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Agility Plugin

This topic describes how to configure the Digital.ai Release—Agility integration plugin.

Ansible Plugin

The Release Ansible plugin allows Release to run playblooks on an Ansible host.

Argo CD Plugin

This topic describes the tasks available with the Argo CD plugin.

Argo Rollouts Plugin

This topic describes the tasks that are available with the Argo Rollouts plugin.

Bitbucket Plugin

This topic describes how to configure the Digital.ai Release Bitbucket plugin.

Black Duck Plugin

The plugin provides summary tiles for the Black Duck Hub that displays the counts of each component with various risks and severities.

Change a Task's Type

This topic explains how to change the type of a task in Release, including the necessary permissions for modifying tasks in templates, planned releases, and active releases.

Checkmarx Plugin

With the Digital.ai Release Checkmarx plugin, you can trigger scans in Checkmarx for your application, verify scan results, and check compliance directly from the Digital.ai Release user interface.

Configure Task Access

This topic explains how to configure task access Release, allowing you to manage who can view or execute specific tasks within a release.

Conjur Connection Plugin

Configuring Conjur Connection plugin allows you to store secrets an external provider and retrieve them at runtime when during a release execution. The CyberArk Conjur plugin is used to retrieve secrets from a CyberArk Conjur server.

Conjur Plugin

This document describes the functionality provided by the xlr-conjur-integration. This plugin provides the ability to populate a release variable with secret retrieved from a Conjur server. The release variable can then be used by subsequent tasks in the release.

Core Concepts

This topic provides an overview of the core concepts and processes in Digital.ai Release, including releases, phases, tasks, release flow, release owners, templates, and teams. It explains how Digital.ai Release helps plan, track, and execute releases, serving as a central source of truth for all involved stakeholders.

Create a Jenkins Task

This topic describes how to create a Jenkins task in Release, enabling integration with Jenkins to trigger builds and deployments.

Create a Jython Script Task

Jython Script task contains a Jython script that is executed on the Release server. It is an automated task that completes when the script is successfully executed.

Create a Manual Task

Manual tasks are steps in a Release that are to be completed manually by the assigned user. These tasks are either assigned to a single user or to a team and are displayed with a gray border in the Release flow editor. For more information on how Manual tasks are assigned, see Configure teams for a release.

Create a Sequential Group

A Sequential Group is a container for tasks that are executed in sequence. The tasks in a Sequential Group are executed in the same order as a series of tasks in a phase. With this task type, you can group together related tasks within a phase.

Create Custom Task Types

You can add custom task types that appear in the user interface and integrate seamlessly with other tasks in the release flow. You can use custom tasks to integrate with third-party components. For example, Release includes JIRA integration tasks, which are a set of custom tasks.

Create Release Tasks

A Create Release task is an automatic task that creates and starts a release based on a configured template.

Delphix Plugin

The Release plugin allows Release to manage virtual databases and bookmarks on a Delphix Dynamic Data Platform.

Deploy Plugin

The Deploy plugin for Release allows you to start a control task or to start a deployment of an application on Deploy. It also provides the functionality to trigger undeployment of an application already deployed on Deploy.

Deploy Tasks

The Deploy task provides integration with Deploy, the Application Release Automation solution as part of the DevOps Platform. It is an automated task that triggers the deployment of an application to an environment in Deploy. Both the application and environment must be configured in Deploy. The task provides live updates of the deployment process and completes automatically when the deployment succeeds.

Docker Compose Plugin

With the Release Docker Compose plugin you can create and destroy multi-container Docker applications on a Docker host.

External Script Tasks

External Script task points to a Jython or Groovy script that is executed on the Release server. It is an automated task that completes when the script is successfully executed. This task detects the language of the script by the file name extension.

Fortify on Demand Plugin

With the Release Fortify on Demand plugin, you can check your application compliance rating in Fortify on Demand, directly from the Release user interface.

Gate Tasks

A Gate task contains conditions that must be fulfilled before the release can continue.

Github Plugin

This topic describes how to configure the Digital.ai Release Github plugin.

Gitlab Plugin

This topic describes how to configure the Digital.ai Release Gitlab plugin.

Groovy Script Tasks

This topic covers the use of Groovy Script tasks in Release, detailing how to write and execute Groovy scripts on the Release server.

Hashicorp Vault Plugin

This topic covers the HashiCorp Vault Plugin for Release, which integrates Vault for secure secret management within release pipelines.

How to Find Identifiers for REST API

To use the Release REST API, you need to know the unique identifiers for templates, releases, phases and tasks. This topic explains where you can find them.

Jira Plugin

This topic describes how to configure the Jira Release plugin.

Jira Tasks Plugin

This topic details the Jira Tasks Plugin for Release, which integrates Jira tasks into your release pipelines.

Kube Contexts Lookup in Kubernetes Plugin

The Release Kubernetes plugin allows user to connect to different K8s clusters using Kubectl and perform operations. The plugin also allows the user to lookup Kube Contexts from a config file that the user provides and connect to a specific cluster from a list of configs.

Kubernetes Plugin

The Release Kubernetes plugin allows Release to work with resources on a Kubernetes host.

Mention Users in the Release Task

The users can be mentioned in the Release task description and comments and it will be notified to the respective mentioned user(s) through a notification email.

Notification Tasks

Notification task types are used to prepare emails and notify the recipients automatically when a task is active. It's an automated task that completes by itself or fails when the email cannot be sent. Release advances to the following task when the notification task is completed.

OpenShift Plugin

The Release OpenShift plugin allows you to work with resources on an OpenShift host from the Release UI.

Remote Script Tasks Plugin

This topic covers Remote Script tasks in Digital.ai Release, which use the Overthere framework to execute commands on remote hosts. The Overthere framework is a Java library designed for managing files and processes on remote systems.

Sequential Tasks With Parallel Groups

This topic explores how to configure sequential tasks with parallel groups in Release, allowing you to organize tasks that run sequentially within parallel execution groups.

ServiceNow Plugin

With the Release ServiceNow plugin, you can work with release tasks on a ServiceNow host from the Release UI.

SonarQube Plugin

The Release SonarQube plugin enables Release to work with reports and metrics from a Sonar server.

Sonatype Nexus IQ Plugin

The Release Sonatype Nexus IQ plugin is a Release plugin that enables the evaluation of a binary within the Nexus IQ server.

Task Abort Script

Using the Abort script property you can execute a Jython script when the task is aborted by the user. This script is defined by the property abortScriptLocation. The abort script is only supported by Jython tasks (extends="xlrelease.PythonScript").

Task Failure Handler

Using the Handling failure property you can enable failure handling on any task in a phase. You can use this to execute a Jython script when the task fails its execution or to skip the task.

Task Life Cycle

This topic illustrates the lifecycle of a task, detailing how tasks transition through different states in an active release.

Task Overview

This topic provides an overview of tasks in Release, including their status, scheduling, and management.

Task Types

This topic categorizes the different types of tasks in Release, including those representing user actions, automated tasks, and tasks that integrate with other tools.

TeamForge Integration

This topic describes how to configure the Digital.ai Release—TeamForge integration plugin.

The Release Work Directory

The XLRELEASESERVER_HOME/work directory is used to store temporary data that cannot be stored in the memory.

The Release Work Directory

This topic provides information about the XLRELEASESERVER_HOME/work directory, which is used to store temporary data that cannot be stored in the memory.

Topaz for Total Test Plugin

The Compuware Topaz for Total Test plugin enables execution of the Topaz for Total Test CLI with parameters required to automate testing using Release for continuous delivery.

Use Scheduling in Scripts

A scheduled script can be used within a custom task script to check for the availability of a resource or to do something when conditions are satisfied, see Create custom task types.

User Input Task

A User Input task is a manual task that you can use to provide values for release variables. These values can then be used in other tasks in the release. The values entered on a task are propagated to release variables as soon as the task is created, not when it is completed. The skip option is always disabled.

Using Markdown in Release

In Release you can style your text using Markdown syntax. Markdown is a way to indicate headers, hyperlink, italics, and so on in your text. In Release, markdown is supported in task descriptions, script task output, and comments.

Vault Connection Plugin

The HashiCorp Vault plugin is used to retrieve secrets from a HashiCorp Vault server. This plugin allows you to store secrets with an external provider and retrieve them at runtime during the release execution.

Webhook Event Tasks

Webhook event tasks are extensible automated tasks that wait for events from webhooks endpoints and complete when the incoming event matches the specified condition.

Webhook Task

Automatic tasks often need to interact with an external system through a REST interface. Although you could use a Jython Script task to send an HTTP query and parse the response, the Webhook task type is a simpler option.

Work With Phases and Tasks

In Release, phases in a template or release represent blocks of activities that occur in succession. Activities in a template or release are modeled as tasks, which are logically grouped in phases. You can use the release flow editor to manage phases and tasks.

Working With Tasks Using New Task Drawer

The New Task Drawer is a feature in Tech Preview—released in Digital.ai Release 22.3—enabled by default. You can disable this feature (using the Feature flags) if you do not want to use the New Task Drawer for Manual and Automated Tasks.