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Install and deploy DevOps Plan
Find information about installing and deploying DevOps Plan client and server software.
Planning the deployment and installation
Before installing DevOps Plan, complete planning tasks to determine what DevOps Plan components to install, review system requirements, and complete required and optional configuration tasks to prepare your environment for the DevOps Plan installation process.

Overview
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Install and deploy DevOps Plan
Find information about installing and deploying DevOps Plan client and server software.
- Planning the deployment and installation
  Before installing DevOps Plan, complete planning tasks to determine what DevOps Plan components to install, review system requirements, and complete required and optional configuration tasks to prepare your environment for the DevOps Plan installation process.
  - Hardware, software, and database requirements
    Review the requirements information to identify operating system, file system, and compatibility requirements, prerequisite tasks, and other information that is required to install or upgrade DevOps Plan.
  - Decide on the feature level
    Determine whether to use feature level 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 for DevOps Plan user databases and schema repositories. The feature level determines the DevOps Plan features available after deployment. Changes to the feature level might require upgrading the DevOps Plan databases and schema repositories. You must also ensure that all DevOps Plan clients are running a DevOps Plan version that supports the selected feature level.
  - Vendor database configuration
    DevOps Plan schema repositories and user databases are types of databases that are physically managed by a database management system. Depending on your operating system, these management systems might include Microsoft™ SQL Server.
- Prerequisites and changes for using DevOps Plan
  DevOps Plan has the following prerequisites:
- Getting started with DevOps Plan Helm Chart
  This quick start guide shows you how to deploy DevOps Plan Helm Chart.
Developing
Learn how to develop schemas by using the DevOps Plan Designer.
Integrating
You can integrate DevOps Plan with other software by adding packages to existing schema.
Extending product function
Learn how to extend the product.

Planning the deployment and installation

Before installing DevOps Plan, complete planning tasks to determine what DevOps Plan components to install, review system requirements, and complete required and optional configuration tasks to prepare your environment for the DevOps Plan installation process.

Installation planning tasks provides an overview of installation planning and configuration tasks to complete before installing the DevOps Plan software.

Table 1. Installation planning tasks
Task	Client and/or Server	Information	Comment
Select your clients	Client	Select DevOps Plan clients to deploy
Determine the number of schema repositories and user databases	Client Server	Plan your DevOps Plan database set architecture
Determine method of authentication.	Server	Manage user accounts and Using LDAP with DevOps Plan	You can use traditional DevOps Plan authentication or use the industry standard Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) to authenticate using an LDAP directory server.
Planning to integrate DevOps Plan with other products.	Server	Integrating DevOps Plan with other products
Check that your environment has the supported Vendor databases and platforms.	Client Server	Hardware, software, and database requirements
Perform any platform configuration requirements depending on the platforms you are deploying to.	Server	Prerequisite tasks by platform
Determine whether you will enable full-text search	Server	Configuring and maintaining full-text search	Full-text search is a DevOps Plan server feature. When full-text search is installed and configured, users can run full-text search operations to find information in the DevOps Plan client applications.
Determine your reporting strategy with the DevOps Plan reporting capabilities.	Server	Planning and configuring the reporting environment
Configure your vendor databases	Server	Vendor database configuration
Configure licensing	Client	Configuring HCL Licensing

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