Welcome
Administration
This section provides information on administration, installation, configuration, and integrations and teamspace management.
Backup and Restoration of DevOps Loop
You must back up HCL DevOps Loop data before you uninstall the current version of DevOps Loop. You must back up the data to avoid data loss or inaccessibility.
Backing up DevOps Loop data
You can back up DevOps Loop by using Velero and Minio to support disaster recovery and upgrade scenarios.

Release Notes
This document includes information about the features introduced, a product overview, and installation instructions, as well as contact information of HCL Customer Support for this version of HCL DevOps Loop.
System Requirements
This document includes information about hardware and software requirements for HCL DevOps Loop.
Getting Started
HCL DevOps Loop is a platform designed to support the full DevOps lifecycle. The Getting Started section introduces key concepts and walks through the initial steps to help new users begin working with the platform.
Administration
This section provides information on administration, installation, configuration, and integrations and teamspace management.
- Installation of DevOps Loop
  To get started working with HCL DevOps Loop, you must first install DevOps Loop.
- License management and user administration
  After you install HCL DevOps Loop, you must consider how the platform manages licenses, users, and authentication.
- Backup and Restoration of DevOps Loop
  You must back up HCL DevOps Loop data before you uninstall the current version of DevOps Loop. You must back up the data to avoid data loss or inaccessibility.
  - Backing up DevOps Loop data
    You can back up DevOps Loop by using Velero and Minio to support disaster recovery and upgrade scenarios.
  - Restoring DevOps Loop data
    You can restore DevOps Loop from a backup created with Velero and Helm values after a disaster recovery event or a failed upgrade.
- Private CA and Self-Signed Certificate support
  A private Certificate Authority (CA) is an organization-specific service that issues and manages digital certificates for use within an enterprise’s private network. These certificates secure communication between internal applications and services.
- Upgrading DevOps Loop
  After you complete certain backup and pre-upgrade steps, you can upgrade DevOps Loop to a newer version using Helm.
- AI Integrations - Tech Preview
  You can integrate AI providers such as OpenAI, Ollama and IBM watsonx.ai with DevOps Loop. AI integration with the platform unlocks advanced data analysis capabilities, providing deeper insights into project details. After the integration is complete, you can query the system to assess project resources, track progress, and gain an understanding of the project status for better decision-making and optimizied workflows.
- Teamspace management
  A teamspace in HCL DevOps Loop is a secure, dedicated environment designed for multiple teams to work independently within a single shared DevOps Loop installation.
- Uninstalling DevOps Loop
  You can safely uninstall DevOps Loop from your environment, ensuring that all resources and data are properly removed.
Working with loop
You can find information about creating and managing loops, learning loop, managing members, and using dashboards and search to monitor progress across integrated capabilities.
Capabilities of DevOps Loop
HCL DevOps Loop provides an integrated suite of applications such as Plan, Code, Control, Build, Test, Release, Deploy and Measure to manage every stage of the software devolopment lifcycle within a connected, continous loop.
Loop Genie - Tech Preview
Loop Genie is an AI-powered, multi-agent chatbot integrated into DevOps Loop. It performs tasks and retrieves information across multiple products and loops through a single conversational interface.
Troubleshooting
Offline Documentation
You can find the link to view or download the content of the release notes, system requirements, and persona guides of HCL DevOps Loop as a PDF file.
Security Considerations
This document describes the actions that you can take to ensure that your installation is secure, customize your security settings, and set up user access controls in HCL DevOps Loop.
Notices
This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.

Backing up DevOps Loop data

You can back up DevOps Loop by using Velero and Minio to support disaster recovery and upgrade scenarios.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Ensured that all DevOps Loop services are running and in a healthy state.
Gained administrative privileges.
Installed Velero and configured with an S3-compatible storage backend (MinIO or AWS S3). See Tools supporting backup and restoration.
Locally saved the Helm values for your current DevOps Loop deployment.

About this task

DevOps Loop utilizes both block and file storage, allowing the back up process to support CSI snapshots and fs-volume backups.

Important:If DevOps Loop pods that use file storage for fs-volume backups are not labeled, Velero will not include their data in the backup, which could result in incomplete or inconsistent backup data.

Procedure

Run the following command to label DevOps Loop pods that use file storage for fs-volume backups:
```
./ibm-devops-loop/scripts/backup-restore/annotate-pods.sh
```
Note: If your DevOps Loop deployment only uses block storage volumes (CSI snapshots), you can skip this step.
Export the Helm configuration of your DevOps Loop deployment to a local file by running the following command:
```
helm get values devops-loop -n devops-loop > devops-loop-values-backup.yaml
```

Run a Velero backup of the DevOps Loop namespace, including PVCs, PVs, and Secrets, using the following command:

velero backup create devops-loop-backup \
  --include-namespaces devops-loop \
  --include-resources persistentvolumeclaims,persistentvolumes,secrets \
  -n velero

Run the following command to verify the backup status to ensure it completed successfully:
```
velero backup describe devops-loop-backup --details
```
Optional Backup any external databases with their native backup tools to ensure data consistency.

Optional: Check the status and logs of your restore jobs to troubleshoot any issues:

# Check backup status
velero get backup

# Describe specific backup
velero describe backup <backup-name>

# View backup logs
velero backup logs <backup-name>

Results

You have created a backup of the DevOps Loop namespace and Helm values for disaster recovery or upgrade scenarios.