Welcome
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.
Loop management
The loop consists of several interconnected phases that ensure continuous software development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Loop Segments overview
When a loop contains multiple microservices, you can add loop segments to manage each microservice independently. Each segment creates a dedicated set of resources and integrations for that microservice.

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.
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.
- Loop management
  The loop consists of several interconnected phases that ensure continuous software development, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
  - Creating a loop
    You can create a loop to build a pipeline of tasks across the integrated capabilities in HCL DevOps Loop.
  - Viewing loop details
    You can use the Loop Details page to view a complete overview of a loop, including its key configuration and resource information.
  - Adding members to a loop
    You can add members to a loop who are already part of your teamspace so they can collaborate and stay updated within it.
  - Removing a member from a loop
    You can remove a member from a loop when they no longer need access.
  - Disabling a loop
    You can disable a loop to pause its activities and stop updates. You can enable it again from the Disabled tab whenever you need it.
  - Enabling a loop
    You can enable a loop to restore its activities and allow updates to flow again.
  - Loop Segments overview
    When a loop contains multiple microservices, you can add loop segments to manage each microservice independently. Each segment creates a dedicated set of resources and integrations for that microservice.
    - Adding a loop segment
      You can add a loop segment within a loop to manage a microservice that requires its own repositories, builds, and integrations.
- Learning Loop overview
  Learning loop provides preloaded sample datasets across multiple DevOps Loop capabilities. It helps you learn and practice workflows by exploring sample projects, work items, and configurations without starting from an empty setup.
- Dashboards and insights
  The dashboard consolidates data from all capabilities, such as Plan, Code, Control, Build, Test, Release, and Deploy, by offering a centralized view of the status. Dashboards are available with both summary and detailed perspectives, and they filter information specific to each loop.
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 overview - Tech Preview
Loop Genie is an AI-powered, multi-agent assistant integrated into DevOps Loop. It provides a unified conversational interface to perform tasks and retrieve information across multiple DevOps Loop capabilities.
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.

Loop Segments overview

When a loop contains multiple microservices, you can add loop segments to manage each microservice independently. Each segment creates a dedicated set of resources and integrations for that microservice.

These resources support the development lifecycle of the microservice and can include items such as:

A dedicated control repository
A separate plan component
Supporting test and build integrations

Each segment behaves like a sub-loop and provides capabilities that are specific to a microservice.

A segement:

Supports its own build and validation flow
Tracks changes specific to the microservice
Remains connected to the overall application lifecycle

You can use segments when you are working with multiple microservices in a single application, each microservice needs separate repositories, builds or testing processes. Segments help maintain clear separation between microservices without creating multiple loops for each microservice.

For example: You build an e-commerce application using a microservices architecture, such as frontend service, order service, and payment service. All these microservices belong to the same application and share a common delivery lifecycle, so you create one Loop to represent the overall application. However, you create a Segment for each microservice inside the parent loop. For example, you create a segment named Order Service.

A loop can contain multiple segments and each segment contributes to the overall value stream.