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CloudBees CD/RO APIs
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Pre-installation checklist for traditional platforms
System requirements
Introduction
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Kubernetes cluster and storage requirements
Port usage
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Installing
Kubernetes installation
Introduction
Installation
Configuring Helm charts
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Verifying Helm charts
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Traditional installation
Introduction
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Introduction
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CloudBees Analytics server installation
Silent unattended traditional installation
Introduction
Silent install overview
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Linux repository server installation example
Windows repository server installation example
Windows or Linux CloudBees Analytics server installation example
Non-server platform UNIX agent installation
Introduction
UNIX agent interactive command-line
UNIX agent unattended
Remote agent tradition installation
Introduction
Prerequisites
Permissions
Installing via the web interface
Installing via the API
Moving the artifact repository in Linux
Moving the artifact repository in Windows
Connecting CloudBees CD/RO to a Microsoft SQL server
Installing the MySQL JDBC driver
Uninstalling CloudBees CD/RO
Introduction
Uninstalling CloudBees CD/RO on Linux, Unix, or macOS
Uninstalling CloudBees CD/RO on Windows
Uninstalling the CloudBees Analytics Server on Linux
Uninstalling the CloudBees Analytics Server on Windows
Signing in to CloudBees CD/RO
Upgrading
Introduction
Upgrading a non-clustered environment
Upgrading a clustered environment
Upgrade CloudBees CD/RO on Kubernetes
Choosing the correct upgrade method
Introduction
User interface upgrade method
Interactive command-line upgrade method
Silent (unattended) upgrade method
Copying repository contents
Upgrading remote agents
Upgrading the CloudBees Analytics server
Configuration settings preserved after an upgrade
Setting up
Configuring the CloudBees Analytics server
Introduction
Configuring initial events for Workload Insights
Deployment automation
Introduction
Microservice applications
Traditional applications
Introduction
Artifact staging
Snapshots
Rollback
Managing dependencies
Processes
Introduction
Applications and processes
Managing Applications
Creating processes
Adding process steps
Process branching
Configuring plugin process steps
Manual steps and tasks
Example: manual step with runtime parameters
Environments
Introduction
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Creating environment tier maps
Inventory tracking
Environment inventory
Global environment inventory
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Modeling dynamic environments
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Example: dynamic environment with Amazon and Chef
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Example: implementing deployment strategies
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Parameters
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Introduction
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Introduction
Defining gate approvals
Pipeline objects and conditions
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Introduction
Example: Creating a manual task in a pipeline
Example: plugin pipeline tasks
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Example: leveraging test data management and service virtualization in release pipelines
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Introduction
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Introduction
The default zone and gateways to remote zones
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Configuring CloudBees CD/RO to Use an Alternate Database
Configuring autostart for non-root/non-sudo Linux installations
Universal access to the plugins directory
Environment proxy server configuration
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Increasing file descriptors on Linux
Adjusting swappiness on Linux
Setting variables on Windows agent machines
Configuring Kibana to work with CloudBees Analytics
Server properties
Server settings
Source code synchronization
GitOps configuration with Helm charts
Data Retention
Change tracking
Introduction
Performance consequences of change tracking
Estimating database growth
Best practices for change tracking
Configuring change tracking
Searching the change history
Viewing the change history
Modifying what you see in the change history
Reverting changes to a tracked object and its tracked contents
Exporting a previous state of a tracked object and its tracked contents
Notifications
Introduction
Setting Email Notifications
Selecting and Editing Email Messages for Application or Microservice Processes
Producing audit reports
Configuration drift
Plugin management
Introduction
Installing plugins
Creating configurations
Managing plugins
Creating plugins
Managing the plugin catalog
Self-Service Catalogs
Horizontal scalability configuration
Introduction
Architecture of a CloudBees CD/RO Cluster
Resource, agent, and procedure considerations
Software for clustering
Dependencies for clustering
Configuring clustering
Separating agents from flow servers
Preparing your cluster resources
Installing and configuring a load balancer
Installing ZooKeeper
Configuring a multi-ZooKeeper cluster
Installing CloudBees CD/RO software
Configuring repository servers
Configuring machines to operate in clustered mode
Running a cluster in single-server mode
Adding the configuration to ZooKeeper
Uploading configuration files to ZooKeeper
Getting Information on the CloudBees CD/RO server cluster from ZooKeeper
Adding a node to an existing cluster
Configuring web server properties
Configuring repository server properties
Configuring CloudBees CD/RO agents
Configuring the cluster workspace
Configuring CloudBees CD/RO repositories
Adding trusted agents to clusters
Verifying CloudBees CD/RO services
Accessing CloudBees CD/RO with clustering
Health check for the CloudBees CD/RO cluster
Additional Ways to improve a cluster
Installing the CloudBees Analytics server in cluster mode
Using self-signed certificates in CloudBees CD/RO on Kubernetes
Disaster recovery
Securing
Introduction
Access control
Introduction
System access control objects
Access control lists
Access control inheritance
Access control for jobs
Access control for pipelines, releases, and procedures
Access control examples
Credentials and user impersonation
Introduction
Credential management
Using credentials
Use Case: Attaching credentials in deployment automation
Impersonation concepts
Cross-site request forgery protection
Maintaining
CloudBees CD/RO server backups
Restoring a CloudBees CD/RO Server
Changing the database password
Switching to an alternate database
Switching to the built-in database
Maintaining CloudBees Analytics server data
Maintaining CloudBees Analytics server data on Kubernetes
Apache web server or agent certificates
Using chkconfig
Starting and stopping servers and agents manually
Collecting CloudBees CD/RO logs
Web interface online help system
Monitoring
Introduction
Managing data with CloudBees Analytics
Introduction
Data model
Creating a report
Elasticsearch basics
Extending the data model
CloudBees Analytics custom dashboards
Introduction
Creating a new dashboard
Copying an existing dashboard
Managing widgets
Exporting dashboards to PDF
CloudBees Analytics built-in dashboards
Introduction
Application Deployments
CI Plugin Usage
CI Workload Insights
Code Commit Trends
Continuous Integration
DORA metrics
Microservice Deployments
Release Command Center
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Troubleshooting
Introduction
CloudBees CD/RO server is unresponsive and displays an outofmemory error
Windows PHP does not handle time zones correctly
CloudBees CD/RO self-signed server certificate fails security scan
The AES passkey was accidentally overwritten
CloudBees CD/RO CA or intermediate CA certificate expires
Linux upgrade breaks symbolic links
Built-In database schema on disk is older than required by CloudBees CD/RO server for upgrade
Troubleshooting pipelines
Troubleshooting the data pipeline
Automation platform
Introduction
Build-test automation
Getting started
Introduction
Scenario 1 - Creating a simple procedure
Scenario 2 - Creating a procedure that uses an SCM
Scenario 3 - Notification, scheduling, and reporting
Scenario 4 - Multi-agent build and test
Automation platform setup
Introduction
Automation platform home page
Customizing the automation platform UI
Configuring CloudBees CD/RO
Using CloudBees CD/RO in your environment
CloudBees CD/RO Installed tools
Automation platform objects
Introduction
Artifact management
Authenticating users for ldap and active directory
Auto-discovery
Defect tracking
ElectricSentry
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Preflight builds
Postprocessors
Reports
Workflow overview
Workspaces and disk space management
Properties
Introduction
Intrinsic properties
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Tutorials
Introduction
Adding a link to a job
Calling a subprocedure
Checking the outcome of preceding steps
Conditional execution
Custom parameter layouts
Email notifications
Executing tasks on all resources in a pool
Factory procedures
Postp extension
Publishing and retrieving an artifact
Reserving a resource for the job step duration
Running steps in parallel
Step timeouts and steps that always run
Storing and retrieving properties in a job
Working with properties stored in a procedure
Using special characters in object names
Automation platform tasks
Access control
Introduction
Defining entries
Create new or edit existing privileges
Artifact management
Introduction
Artifact details
Create new or edit existing artifacts
Artifact versions
Artifact version details
Edit an existing artifact version
Repositories
Create new or edit existing repositories
Database configuration
Defect tracking
Introduction
Create new or edit existing configurations
Defect tracking reports
Email configurations and notifiers
Introduction
Create new or edit existing email configurations
Email notifiers
Event log
Home page
Introduction
Job configuration
Shortcuts
Jobs quick view
Jobs
Introduction
CloudBees CD/RO job details
Job step details
Licenses
Introduction
View license
Import license
Procedures, steps, and parameters
Introduction
Procedure runs
Create new or edit existing procedure
Create new or edit existing steps
Publish artifact version steps
Retrieve artifact version steps
Send email steps
Extract preflight sources steps
Create new or edit existing parameters
Projects, schedules, and credentials
Introduction
Create new or edit existing projects
Project details
Create new or edit existing schedules
Create new or edit existing credentials
Properties
Introduction
Nested Property Sheet
Reports
Resources and pools
Introduction
Resource pools
Create new or edit existing pools
Resource pool details
Zones
Gateways
Search
Introduction
Search results
Edit existing property settings
Source control
Introduction
Create new or edit existing configurations
Users and groups
Introduction
Users
Create new or edit existing local users
User details
Edit user settings
Groups
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Directory providers
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Single sign-on
Test directory provider
Workflows
Introduction
Create new or edit exiting workflow definitions
Workflow definition details
Run workflow
Workflow details
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Transition workflow
Workspaces
Introduction
Create new or edit existing workspaces
Workspace file
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