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Deploying a simple web application
In this tutorial, you deploy a simple web application with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy). You create components, create an application that contains those components, and then deploy the components to an environment.
Lesson 4: Creating an application process
Application processes tie together component processes.

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  Use HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy) to standardize and simplify the process of deploying software components to each environment in your development cycle.
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      - Deploying a simple web application
        In this tutorial, you deploy a simple web application with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy). You create components, create an application that contains those components, and then deploy the components to an environment.
        Introduction
        In this tutorial, you deploy a simple web application with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy). You create components, create an application that contains those components, and then deploy the components to an environment.
        Configuring the agent and target system
        To deploy applications with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy), you need one or more agents. The server uses the agents to deploy the application components on target systems.
        Lesson 1: Adding components
        Components are groups of deployable artifacts that make up an application. Components include runnable files, images, databases, and configuration instructions.
        Lesson 2: Creating component processes
        Component processes describe automated tasks that run on components. Component processes can deploy, install, uninstall, update, or run other tasks on a component.
        Lesson 3: Creating an application and an environment
        Applications are collections of components. Environments represent systems on which you deploy the application components.
        Lesson 4: Creating an application process
        Application processes tie together component processes.
        Lesson 5: Deploying the application components
        To deploy the components in the application, run the application process on the new environment.
        Lesson 6: Updating the application
        In the first lesson, you deleted certain versions of the components. In this lesson, you add those versions again to simulate deploying a new version of the components.
        Summary
        In this tutorial, you learned to deploy and update an application with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy).
      - Creating and deploying snapshots
        In this tutorial, you deploy a simple web application to a new environment with HCL DevOps Deploy (Deploy). You create a snapshot of the components in an application, and then deploy the snapshot to an environment.
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Lesson 4: Creating an application process

Application processes tie together component processes.

About this task

In this lesson, you create an application process to install the components by calling each component process.

Procedure

Click the Applications tab, and then click the JPetStore application.
Click Processes, and then click Create Process.
Be sure to click the Processes tab within the application and not the Processes tab at the top of the page, which leads to generic processes.
In the Create an Application Process window, name the new application process Deploy JPetStore.
Accept the default values for the other fields, and click Save.
Click the new process to open it in the process editor.
The process editor for application processes is similar to the process editor for component processes. However, for application processes, the steps are limited to calling component processes and a few utility steps.
Add a step to deploy the application component:
1. From the list of steps, add an Install Component step to the process editor.
  This step calls component processes that have a process type of Deployment.
2. In the Edit Properties window, name the step Deploy application component.
3. In the Component list, select the JPetStore-APP component.
4. In the Component Process list, select the Deploy Component component process.
5. Click OK.
Similarly, add a step that is named Deploy component to deploy the web and database components.
Verify that the Start step is connected to the Deploy application component step.
Instead of connecting the remaining steps in a straight line, follow these steps to connect the steps so that they run at the same time.
Use the figure at the end of this step as a reference point.
1. Connect the Deploy application component step to the Deploy web component step.
2. Connect the Deploy application component step to the Deploy database component step.
  Now these two steps will run at the same time, after the application step.
3. Connect both the Deploy web component step and the Deploy database component step to the Finish step.
Save the process.

Results

The complete application process deploys the application component first and then deploys the web component and database components at the same time. The application process looks like the following figure:

The complete application process with three steps that call component processes