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Create a simple helloWorld deployment
In this tutorial, you create a simple application with HCL Launch. You use standard plug-ins to create a component and define an application that deploys the component to an environment.
Lesson 5 Create an application process
Application processes direct underlying component processes and orchestrate multi-component deployments.

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    - Create a simple helloWorld deployment
      In this tutorial, you create a simple application with HCL Launch. You use standard plug-ins to create a component and define an application that deploys the component to an environment.
      - Introduction
        In this tutorial, you create a simple application with HCL Launch. You use standard plug-ins to create a component and define an application that deploys the component to an environment.
      - Configure the helloWorld tutorial system
        To deploy the tutorial component, or any component, you must have an agent. An agent is a lightweight process that runs on a target computer and does the actual work of deploying components.
      - Lesson 1 Create the helloWorld component
        Components contain artifacts and processes. Artifacts include runnable files, images, databases, configuration instructions, and anything else that is associated with a software project. Processes define the activities that components can perform.
      - Lesson 2 Create a component process
        Component processes are user-defined tasks that operate on components.
      - Lesson 3 Create an application
        Applications manage components, typically by deploying them into environments.
      - Lesson 4 Configure an application environment
        When you create an environment, you map resources to it that define where the parent application can run deployments.
      - Lesson 5 Create an application process
        Application processes direct underlying component processes and orchestrate multi-component deployments.
      - Lesson 6 Deploy the component
        To deploy the component, run the application process on an environment.
      - Summary
        In this tutorial, you learned how to deploy a component with HCL Launch.
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Lesson 5 Create an application process

Application processes direct underlying component processes and orchestrate multi-component deployments.

About this task

An application process, like a component process, consists of steps that are configured with the process editor. In this lesson, you create an application process that installs the helloWorld component by calling the component process that you created earlier. You must use application processes to deploy components.

Procedure

Click the Applications tab, and then click hello Application.
Click Processes, and then click Create Process.
In the Create an Application Process window, name the new application process something like hello App Process.
Accept the default values for the other fields, and click Save.
To open the new process in the process editor, click the new process.
Add a step that deploys the helloWorld component:
1. From the list of steps, add an Install Component step to the design area, and then on the process step click the Edit icon.
2. In the Edit Properties window, name the step something like Deploy helloWorld.
3. In the Component list, select the helloWorld component.
  All components that are associated with an application are available.
4. In the Component Process list, select the helloProcess component process.
  If multiple processes were defined for the helloWorld component, they are listed.
5. In the Limit to Tag list, select the blueCycle tag that you defined earlier.
  After you select blueCycle, the application deploys only components with this tag.
6. Accept the default values for the other fields, and click OK.
Verify that the Start step is connected to the Deploy helloWorld step.
Verify that the Deploy helloWorld step is connected to the Finish step.
Save the process by clicking Save.

Results

The complete application process looks like the following figure:

The complete application process

Example

In this lesson, you created an application process that deploys the helloWorld component.

The Processes tab lists the application process.

What to do next

For more information about creating application processes, see Application processes.