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.

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.

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.

A backup creates a copy of your data and stores it in secondary storage. You can use this copy to recover if the original data is lost or becomes inaccessible.

A restore copies backed-up data from secondary storage back to its original location, making it available again.

You must back up and restore the data when you perform the following tasks:

Move the existing environment to a new system.
Change the name of the release or namespace that you used during the installation of DevOps Loop.
Minimize the downtime of DevOps Loop during disaster recovery.

Tools supporting backup and restoration

DevOps Loop uses the following open source tools to perform backup and restore operations:

Velero: It is a Kubernetes native backup and restore tool that captures and restores Kubernetes resources, persistent volumes, and application state. Velero also supports disaster recovery and migration scenarios between clusters.
MinIO: It is an S3 compatible object storage system used as the backup storage target for Velero. MiniO stores the backups created by Velero and enables you to retrieve them for restore operations.

Velero is installed in your Kubernetes cluster and configured to use MinIO or any other S3-compatible storage backend.

Note: MinIO is provided here as an example S3-compatible storage solution for reference purposes only.

To install Velero and MiniO in your cluster, you must run the following script:

./ibm-devops-loop/scripts/backup-restore/install-minio.sh
./ibm-devops-loop/scripts/backup-restore/install-velero.sh

After installing MinIO, run the port-forward commands to make it accessible on your local machine:

```bash
kubectl port-forward --address 0.0.0.0 pod/minio -n loops-minio 9000:9000 9090:9090

Then, use the MinIO Web UI (http://localhost:9090) to create a bucket (for example, "loops-backup") to store Velero backups.