Welcome
Administration
This section provides information on administration, installation, configuration, and integrations and teamspace management.
Integrations in DevOps Loop
DevOps Loop provides a set of integrations to extend the platform’s capabilities and connect your loops to external systems and intelligent tools. These integrations enable you to automate tasks, enhance productivity, and interact with loop resources from outside the DevOps Loop interface.

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.
- Configuring external databases for the capabilities in DevOps Loop
  You can configure external databases for the capabilities in DevOps Loop and provide the database URL in the helm chart to connect the capabilities to external database.
- 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.
- Upgrading DevOps Loop
  After you complete certain backup and pre-upgrade steps, you can upgrade DevOps Loop to a newer version using Helm.
- Integrations in DevOps Loop
  DevOps Loop provides a set of integrations to extend the platform’s capabilities and connect your loops to external systems and intelligent tools. These integrations enable you to automate tasks, enhance productivity, and interact with loop resources from outside the DevOps Loop interface.
  - AI provider integration for Loop Genie - Tech Preview
    You can configure AI providers such as OpenAI, Claude Desktop, Gemini, IBM watsonx, and Ollama with DevOps Loop. Configuring any one of these providers activates Loop Genie for your environment. Only one provider can be active at a time.
- DevOps Loop MCP server
  The DevOps Loop MCP (Model Context Protocol) server provides a standardized interface that allows external MCP clients to communicate with a loop. Through this server, MCP-compatible clients such as Visual Studio Code (via MCP extensions) and Claude Desktop can query, retrieve, and modify loop resources from within their development or AI-assisted environments.
- 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 Loops
A loop is a workflow that connects DevOps activities of your team from planning and development through build, deployment, testing, and release phases.
Capabilities of DevOps Loop
HCL DevOps Loop provides an integrated suite of capabilities such as Plan, Code, Control, Build, Test, Release, Deploy and Measure to manage every stage of the software development lifecycle within a connected, continuous 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 capabilities through a single conversational interface.
Troubleshooting
Offline Documentation (PDF)
You can access the following link to view or download the release notes, system requirements, and user documentation for DevOps Loop in a Portable Document Format (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.

Integrations in DevOps Loop

DevOps Loop provides a set of integrations to extend the platform’s capabilities and connect your loops to external systems and intelligent tools. These integrations enable you to automate tasks, enhance productivity, and interact with loop resources from outside the DevOps Loop interface.

AI provider integration

DevOps Loop supports AI-assisted features through external AI providers such as OpenAI, Claude Desktop, Gemini, IBM watsonx, and Ollama. When configured, these integrations enable Loop Genie to generate summaries, insights, and contextual information across work items, build results, deployments, and other supported capabilities.

MCP server integration

The MCP server (Model Context Protocol Server) allows external MCP-compatible tools such as VS Code (Copilot) and Claude Desktop to connect directly to DevOps Loop. Through this integration, you can query, retrieve, and modify loop resources from supported external tools. For more information, see DevOps Loop MCP server.