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Administration
This section provides information on administration, installation, configuration, and integrations and teamspace management.
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.

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.
- 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.
  - Configuring trusted certificates in DevOps Loop
    You can configure DevOps Loop to use private CA and self-signed certificates by creating or updating a Kubernetes secret with a PEM certificate bundle.
- 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.

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.

By default, self signed or privately signed certificates are not automatically trusted by clients because they are not included in the public trust stores used by operating systems and browsers.

DevOps Loop supports configuring and trusting such private CA or self-signed certificates so that secure connections to internal systems can be established.

During installation or upgrade, DevOps Loop reads CA certificates from a Kubernetes secret specified by the Helm parameter global.privateCaBundleSecretName. These certificates are then added to internal trust store of DevOps Loop so that integrations and plugins can establish encrypted, trusted connections to systems that use private CA or self-signed certificates.

You can also reference the same secret using global.ibmCertSecretName when using self-signed certificates to simplify configuration.