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.
Harbor integration overview
Harbor is an integrated capability in DevOps Loop that provides an OCI-compliant container registry, vulnerability scanning, image signing, and image management capabilities.
Importing and validating images in Harbor registry
You can import images into Harbor to preload repositories with commonly used container images.

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.
- Configuration of external databases for the capabilities in DevOps Loop
  DevOps Loop capabilities use databases to store configuration data, execution results, and operational information. In the default configuration, some capabilities deploy internal databases as part of the Helm installation. However, you can configure the capabilities to use external databases that are managed outside the Kubernetes cluster.
- Installation of DevOps Loop
  To get started working with HCL DevOps Loop, you must first install the platform in your environment.
- License management and user administration
  After you install DevOps Loop, you must manage licenses, users, and authentication to control access to platform resources.
- 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 the required backup and pre-upgrade tasks, you can upgrade DevOps Loop to a newer version.
- 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, AZURE 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.
  - Harbor integration overview
    Harbor is an integrated capability in DevOps Loop that provides an OCI-compliant container registry, vulnerability scanning, image signing, and image management capabilities.
    - Prerequisites for Harbor integration
      You must ensure that the required Kubernetes platform components, storage configuration, object storage, DNS, TLS, and dependency secrets are available before you install DevOps Loop with Harbor integration.
    - Installing DevOps Loop with Harbor integration
      You can configure Harbor as an integrated capability during DevOps Loop installation to provide container image storage, vulnerability scanning, and image management capabilities.
    - Accessing Harbor from DevOps Loop
      You can access Harbor from the DevOps Loop when it is configured with DevOps Loop installation.
    - Importing and validating images in Harbor registry
      You can import images into Harbor to preload repositories with commonly used container images.
- DevOps Loop MCP server
  The DevOps Loop Model Context Protocol (MCP) server provides a standardized interface so that external MCP clients can interact with DevOps Loop and perform supported operations.
- 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, Measure and Harbor (if enabled) 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 assistant integrated into DevOps Loop. It provides a unified conversational interface for retrieving information and performing actions 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.

Importing and validating images in Harbor registry

You can import images into Harbor to preload repositories with commonly used container images.

Before you begin

You must have completed the following tasks:

Installed Harbor and ensured it is accessible. See Accessing Harbor from DevOps Loop.
Installed skopeo on the system where you run the bootstrap script.

Procedure

Update the bootstrap image list.

Edit the scripts/harbor/bootstrap-images.txt file in the following format:

source_image target_project target_repository target_tag

For example:

docker://docker.io/library/nginx:latest devops nginx bootstrap
docker://docker.io/library/alpine:latest devops alpine bootstrap docker://docker.io/library/busybox:latest devops busybox bootstrap

Run the bootstrap script.

DOMAIN=<DOMAIN> \
NAMESPACE=devops-loop \
RELEASE=devops-loop \
scripts/harbor/bootstrap-images.sh

Verify that the imported images are available in Harbor.

Validate image push and pull operations:

docker login harbor.<DOMAIN>
docker tag nginx:latest harbor.<DOMAIN>/devops/nginx:test
docker push harbor.<DOMAIN>/devops/nginx:test
docker pull harbor.<DOMAIN>/devops/nginx:test

Perform the following steps to verify vulnerability scanning:
1. Open Harbor.
2. Navigate to the project that contains the uploaded image.
3. Enable Automatically scan images on push for the project if it is not already enabled.
4. Push a container image to the project.
5. Verify that Harbor displays the vulnerability scan results for the image.
Harbor scans the image by using Trivy and displays the detected vulnerabilities.

Results

You have imported the specified images into Harbor and they are available for use.