Welcome
Managing Value Streams
A value stream represents the objects and activities that you employ to deliver customer value, from initial concept to final delivered project.
External YAML configuration
You can create a minimal value realization of different DevOps tools into HCL™ Accelerate quickly using external YAML configuration file.

Welcome
Welcome to the HCL™ Accelerate version 4.0.x documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Accelerate.
Release Information
This document contains information about what's new, bug fixes, known issues, and upgrade notes.
Getting Started
This document provides an overview of HCL™ Accelerate.
System Requirements
This document contains information about hardware and software requirements for HCL™ Accelerate.
High-Level Overview
Use HCL™ Accelerate to automate your release lifecycle and manage your DevOps value streams.
Learning
Learn how to complete frequently-used tasks such as creating value streams.
Installing and Upgrading
Migrating
Administering
A default HCL™ Accelerate administrator ID is included as part of HCL Accelerate. It is used to install and complete initial configuration tasks.
Administrator Guide
This guide describes how to install HCL™ Accelerate. After you install HCL Accelerate, you can perform administrative tasks such as license configuration, upgrading, migrating, managing access permissions and security. This guide is intended for system administrators.
Managing Value Streams
A value stream represents the objects and activities that you employ to deliver customer value, from initial concept to final delivered project.
- Creating value streams
  Create a value stream and then customize it by defining phases and stages that reflect your typical workflow.
- Viewing value streams
  Viewing value streams using list and card view layouts.
- Value stream metrics
  Assess project quality, progress, and performance with the HCL™ Accelerate metric data tools.
- Navigating value streams
  Manage a value stream's displayed data by applying filters and queries.
- DevOps query language
  Use the DevOps query language to filter the information displayed in your value stream.
- External YAML configuration
  You can create a minimal value realization of different DevOps tools into HCL™ Accelerate quickly using external YAML configuration file.
  - Creating YAML configuration file in GitHub repository
    You can create YAML configuration with the properties of required DevOps tools.
  - Importing YAML configuration file to HCL™ Accelerate
    The YAML configuration file must be imported into HCL™ Accelerate before you can apply the configurations defined in the YAML file.
  - Applying the YAML configuration file to HCL™ Accelerate
    You must apply the YAML configuration file to HCL™ Accelerate for viewing the configuration defined in YAML file.
- Pipelines
  Pipelines provide a streamlined method to manage the applications in your development lifecycle. With pipelines, you can auto-generate deployment plans and deploy applications versions to all environments.
Developing Data Insights
The Insights feature provides DevOps metrics for your project data.
Releasing Software
A release is a repeatable plan that is used to drive deployments.
Extending Product Functions
Learn how to extend the function of HCL™ Accelerate
How to
The topics in this section describe how to work with HCL™ Accelerate features. Tutorials and workbooks are available for users of all experience levels.
Troubleshooting
Before you contacting support, gather background information and perform tasks that will assist in solving the problem. It helps to be as specific as possible and include all relevant information.
Glossary

External YAML configuration

You can create a minimal value realization of different DevOps tools into HCL™ Accelerate quickly using external YAML configuration file.

You must define all your required configuration properties in ucv.yaml file, then you can import the ucv.yaml into HCL™ Accelerate and apply the configurations defined in the YAML file.

You must perform the following steps to see the minimal value realization of DevOps tools into HCL™ Accelerate: