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Modeling software deployment
Modeling software deployment in HCL Launch includes configuring components and component processes and adding those components to applications. Then, you use processes to deploy the components to environments.
Inventories
You use different inventories to track installed components and properties in HCL Launch elements.
Viewing resource configuration inventories
You can view the configuration inventory for a component, which includes all properties that are associated with the component resource.

Modeling software deployment
Modeling software deployment in HCL Launch includes configuring components and component processes and adding those components to applications. Then, you use processes to deploy the components to environments.
- Components
  Components represent deployable items along with user-defined processes that operate on them, usually by deploying them.
- Resources
  A resource is a logical deployment target that typically resolves to an agent and a user-defined construct that is based on the architectural model of HCL Launch.
- Applications
  Applications are responsible for bringing together all the components that must be deployed together.
- Application environments
  An environment is a user-defined collection of resources that hosts an application.
- Application templates
  With an application template, you can save and reuse a collection of resources, environments, processes, and tagged components or component templates to create a standardized application.
- Application processes
  Application processes, like component processes, are created with the process editor. You use application processes to deploy or to roll back components.
- Application blueprints
  An application blueprint maps application components to a resource template. When you create an environment or provision one from the cloud, you can use the blueprint as a model.
- Snapshots
  A snapshot is a collection of specific versions of components and processes. Typically, a snapshot represents a set of component versions that are known to work together. In most cases, snapshots include all of the components in an application.
- Creating manual application tasks
  A manual application task interrupts an application process until manual intervention is done. To create a manual task, add a manual step to an application process and select a notification template.
- Approval process
  You can add approval requirements to deployments. Deployments with approvals cannot be completed until all approvers respond. Approvers can respond to requests on the Work Items tab, or by email.
- Inventories
  You use different inventories to track installed components and properties in HCL Launch elements.
  - Environment inventory and compliance
    The inventory for an environment lists the component versions that are intended to be deployed to that environment. Compliance shows whether the environment contains those component versions.
  - Viewing resource configuration inventories
    You can view the configuration inventory for a component, which includes all properties that are associated with the component resource.
- Processes
  Processes are automated tasks that run on agents.
- Statuses
  Create and apply statuses to track component inventory states or to track component versions in environments and resources.
- Properties
  Properties are variables that store information about many different elements, including components, environments, processes, and applications. You can also set global properties for the system.
- Tags
  A tag is a user-defined, shared, short label that you use to classify, view, and conduct operations on objects such as applications, components, agents, and resources.
- Webhooks
  Using the webhooks, you can send text-based responses to users in messaging platform such as MS Teams and Slack when a specific event occurs during deployment process.
- Secret Stores
  Allows HCL Launch to retrieve credentials of individual servers from the Vault and authenticates a plug-in step in the deployment process.

Viewing resource configuration inventories

You can view the configuration inventory for a component, which includes all properties that are associated with the component resource.

About this task

When you deploy a component, you store all the properties that are associated with the component, its application, and its environment on your deployment's resource target. From the resource tree, you can view which properties are active on the component resource.

Procedure

To view the resource tree, complete one of these steps:
- To view the entire resource tree, click Resources.
- To view the resource tree for a specific application environment, click Applications > application name > environment name.
Click the component's name.
From within the resource, click the Inventory tab.
In the Configuration Inventory pane, locate the property to examine.
You might have to expand several levels to locate the properties.
To view the properties that are associated with the component, expand both Components and the component itself.
In the same row as the properties, click View.
The Property Details dialog box is shown.
Review the contents of the Property Details dialog box.
The dialog box contains the following information:
- The versions of properties that are stored on the resource target
- The name and value of each stored property
Click Cancel to return to the resource tree.

What to do next

If the resource target does not contain the correct version of the properties, you can configure a component process to update the properties. See Component process types.