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Agility Plugin

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

Argo CD Container Plugin

The Argo CD plugin allows you to seamlessly integrate Argo CD with your existing CI/CD pipelines, streamlining your Kubernetes continuous delivery workflow.

Argo CD Plugin

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

Argo Workflows Plugin

The Argo Workflows plugin allows you to orchestrate complex tasks and workflows as containerized jobs.

AWS Container Plugin

The AWS container plugin allows you to create, update, invoke, and delete Lambda functions using packages such as .zip files or container images.

AWS Secrets Manager Plugin

The AWS Secrets Manager integration is used to retrieve secrets from AWS secrets manager to use in your tasks and automations. The integration also lets you create, get, update, and delete secrets in the AWS secrets manager from Release.

Azure Container Plugin

The Azure container plugin allows you to interact with the Azure services or resources in a more seamless and automated manner. It's often used for tasks such as configuration management, troubleshooting, and automation.

Bamboo Integration

Bamboo plugin enables DevOps teams to automate their Bamboo Continuous Delivery Pipelines as part of release orchestration . This topic describes how to configure the Digital.ai Release Bamboo plugin.

Bitbucket Plugin

This topic describes how to configure and use 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.

Change and Risk Prediction (CRP) Plugin

The Release Change and Risk Prediction (CRP) plugin lets you predict high-risk changes and take actions to prevent failure, while also identifying low-risk changes and automating deployment. This helps you make data-driven decisions to avoid downtime and improve user experience.

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

Configure who can view or execute specific tasks within a release by managing task access settings.

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 Build and Multibranch Pipeline Scan tasks in Release, enabling integration with Jenkins to trigger builds and deployments.

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 Release Task

The Create Release task enables you to automatically create and start a release based on a configured template.

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.

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

This guide explains how to use Gate tasks in Release, including configuration of checkbox conditions, dependencies, transitions, and advanced options for controlling release flow.

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.

Hashicorp Vault Plugin

This plugin may appear to fail the JDK 17 compatibility test that runs as part of the Plugin Manager.

Helm Container Plugin

The Helm container plugin allows you simplify the deployment and management of applications on Kubernetes clusters. It allows you to define, install, upgrade, and rollback the Kubernetes applications.

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 Container Plugin

The Kubernetes container plugin offers a range of functionalities to enhance Kubernetes cluster management, deployment, and operations.

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.

OPA Integration

Open Policy Agent (OPA) is a freely available engine that enables you to write policies in the form of code and incorporate them into your application or process. The Release OPA Integration enables Release to work with Open Policy Agent server to manage policies and to evaluate inputs based on policy language known as REGO, which allows you to write policies for various services utilizing the same language.

OpenShift Plugin

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

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.

Set a Precondition on a Task

You can control when tasks run in your release flow by setting preconditions. This helps you create more flexible releases that adapt to different conditions and skip unnecessary tasks, saving time and preventing errors.

SonarQube Plugin

Integrate SonarQube with Release to automate code quality checks, gates, and dashboard reporting. This guide covers plugin setup, task configuration, and dashboard tile usage.

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 script when the task failure or to skip the task.

Task Life Cycle

A task life cycle represents the sequence of states and transitions that a task goes through during its execution in a release. Understanding these states and transitions is crucial for effectively managing and monitoring tasks within your release pipeline.

Task Overview

This guide explains how to view, filter, and perform actions on tasks in Release.

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.

Terraform Container Plugin

The Terraform container plugin allows you to set up infrastructure from Release. It can create new resources, update existing ones, or delete resources defined in your configuration. It clones the Git repository for Terraform files and executes the apply and delete commands. It does not maintain the state files terraform.tfstate. Also, provide the backend configuration for the state in your Terraform configuration file.

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 use Markdown syntax to style your text in various ways. Markdown is a simple and intuitive way to format text, which includes headers, hyperlinks, italics, and more. Markdown is supported in three areas of Release: task descriptions, script task output, and comments.

Webhook event tasks

Webhook event tasks are extensible automated tasks that wait for events from both webhooks endpoints and deployment provider webhook sources, 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. The Webhook task type is the recommended option for REST interactions in Release SaaS.