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.
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.

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.

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.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Ensured that the Kubernetes environment hosting DevOps Loop is running and accessible.
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 restore process to support CSI snapshots and fs-volume backups.

Important:If DevOps Loop pods that use file storage were not labeled during backup, their data will not be restored, which could result in incomplete or inconsistent recovery.

Procedure

Run the following command to restore the DevOps Loop namespace from the Velero backup:
```
velero restore create --from-backup devops-loop-backup
```
Verify that the restore is completed successfully by running the following command:
```
velero restore describe devops-loop-backup --details
```
Reinstall or upgrade DevOps Loop using the saved Helm values if necessary:
```
helm upgrade --install devops-loop devops-loop-chart -n devops-loop -f devops-loop-values-backup.yaml
```
Note: If persistent volumes are larger than the default Helm chart sizes, override them using --set options during reinstall.
Optional: Restore any external databases used by DevOps Loop using their native restore tools to ensure data consistency.
Restart DevOps Loop to ensure all services reflect the restored state:
```
kubectl rollout restart deployment devops-loop -n devops-loop
```

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

# Check all restores
velero get restore

# Describe a specific restore
velero describe restore <RESTORE_NAME>

# View restore logs
velero restore logs <RESTORE_NAME>

Results

You have restored the DevOps Loop namespace, including all CSI snapshots and fs-volume backups, and any external databases (if applicable).