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October 15, 2023
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Where do I fnd the documentation on setting up Dev/Test/Prod landscape for deployments?

  • October 15, 2023
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I'm a newbie to Appian, looking for the documentation on initial steps for creating the promote-to-production landscape.  )This is assuming an "enterprise application" architecture (think: multiple users creating POs and then a Purchasing Dept. making buys), and not a mobile app architecture where we have to deploy an applet to multiple devices.)

I have found the documentation on "Deployments" and "Packages," but not the precursor documentation on how to set up the landscape, declare where Dev is and where Test is and where Prod is, how to add a Training environment into the landscape if desired, how to set up Primary Dev and HotFix Dev, etc., such that a Deployment can move applications and objects from a Source to Target.

Tried searching on "landscape" but that took me to portrait-vs-landscape in document orientation.  Other ideas on what search terms to use, or can anyone point me directly to the documentation?

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stefanhelzle0001
Brainy
October 15, 2023
andyh1836Author
October 15, 2023

Stefan:  Thank you.  I've been to this page and I still am not finding what I'm looking for.  I may be asking a ill-formed question, pulling ideas from too much exposer to and enculturation in other technologies.  If so, feel free to correct me and recast the question!  

But on this devops-with-appian page I see items like:

--"Deploy to Target Environments,"

--"Getting started with DevOps,"

--"The Appian DevOps pipeline" 

etc. 

Generally, I'm seeing the parallels with how Appian's "deployment" (export-import) of "packages" works across "environments" in a landscape.  But what I don't see there how to set up (instantiate, initialize, create, point to) those environments.

Before DevSecOps goes into operation, aren't there preliminary steps to create the landscape for the pipeline to operate on?  

(Or am I just missing it on that page?)

Thanks!!

stefanhelzle0001
Brainy
October 15, 2023

Hm ... each Appian environment is a completely separate installation or cloud environment. So, if you go with Appian cloud, you will have to order 3 or more.

And I suggest to forget about most of the complexity you might be used to. Appian is simple, not only the development, but also deployment etc.