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Release Notes
This document includes information about the new features introduced, defects fixed, and known issues identified in this version of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). You can also find the installation and upgrade instructions along with the contact information of HCL Customer Support.
What's New
You can find information about the features introduced, enhancements, or other changes made in HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). You can also find the features that were introduced in earlier versions of Velocity. HCL DevOps Velocity is the new name of HCL Accelerate from 5.0.0 onwards.
Defect fixes
You can find the defects that are fixed in this version of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). You can also find the defects that were fixed in the earlier versions of Velocity. HCL DevOps Velocity is the new name of HCL Accelerate from 5.0.0 onwards.
Getting Started
This document provides an overview of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity).
System Requirements
This document contains information about hardware and software requirements for HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity).
High-Level Overview
Use HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) to automate your release lifecycle and manage your DevOps value streams.
Key to product editions
HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) is available in several editions.
Introduction to releases and pipelines
A release represents the delivery of multiple applications through one or more phases of a life cycle. A typical release includes many deployments to test environments and a small number of highly orchestrated deployments to staging and production. Release managers can define milestones that lead up to the release, as well as a plan to deliver participating applications to each phase of the life cycle.
Home page
Use the Home page to view value streams, releases, and insights defined in your environment.
Learning
Learn how to complete frequently-used tasks such as creating value streams.
Create a value stream
In this tutorial, we integrate Jira work items into a value stream and control value stream data with DevOps query language (DQL) queries.
Linking value stream tools
In this tutorial, you integrate the popular tools Git and Jira into a value stream and link them together.
Implementing custom metrics
In this tutorial, you create a custom metric definition and use it to provide data to HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity).
Tutorials for integrating Jira, GitHub, and Jenkins in Velocity
You can use the tutorials to get started with integrating Jira, GitHub, and Jenkins in HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). You can define the integrations and view the movement of dots in the value stream.
Managing licenses
Configure your license or apply a trial key.
License grace period
You can use the HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) in grace period when you are unable to connect with licensing server or trial license key expired.
License scenarios
How many licenses do I need?
Upgrading a trial to a full version
Upgrade your installation to the full version.
Administering
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). After you install Velocity, you can perform administrative tasks such as license configuration, upgrading, migrating, managing access permissions and security. This guide is intended for system administrators.
Installing DevOps Velocity
To get started with HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity), you must install it on any one of the container platforms. You can find information about the selection of a container platform, installation methods, and procedure for installing Velocity.
Installing DevOps Velocity plugins on air-gapped networks
HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) plugin installations on air-gapped networks.
Uninstalling DevOps Velocity
You can uninstall HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) by stopping the server and removing the product containers.
Upgrading DevOps Velocity
You can find information about upgrading of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity).
Migrating DevOps Velocity
You can find information about migration of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) to another container orchestration.
Configuring DevOps Velocity
A default HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) administrator ID is included as part of Velocity. It is used to install and complete initial configuration tasks.
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 DevOps Velocity (Velocity) 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 DevOps Velocity (Velocity) quickly using external YAML configuration 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.
Solution versions
Developing Data Insights
The Insights feature provides DevOps metrics for your project data.
Managing Insights dashboards
Managing Insights dashboards
Insights reports
Insights reports are generated for the data that is aggregated in the Value streams, Pipelines, and Release categories. You can generate reports by clicking a button and then shared with the required stakeholders. You can run the following insights reports in HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity).
Releasing Software
A release is a repeatable plan that is used to drive deployments.
Managing a release
Use the release details page to view details about a specific release.
Managing releases
Release management is the process of planning, scheduling, and controlling software deliveries.
Creating releases
Archiving releases
You can archive a release to remove it from the list of releases.
Events and tags
An event represents a release-related activity that you manage with the calendar. A tag is a label that you can add to a release or an event. You can use tags to filter the Activities list on the Releases page. Tags do not appear on the calendar.
Restoring archived releases, plans, and templates
You can restore archived releases, deployment plans, and templates.
Deployment plans
A deployment plan is a container for tasks. Tasks define the activities that your team runs to complete a software deployment.
Running deployments
Complete deployments by resolving the tasks in a deployment plan.
Tasks
A task represents a business-meaningful activity that is associated with a software deployment. Each task is defined on a separate row in a deployment plan. During a deployment, you run tasks defined in the deployment plan to complete the deployment.
Properties
A deployment plan can contain user-defined properties. Properties values can be defined at design- or run-time.
Extending Product Functions
Learn how to extend the function of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity)
Introducing plugins
Extend HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) by configuring plugin integrations to external tools.
Preventing plugins installs in unsupported server versions
Plugin versions incompatible with HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) are prevented from installing.
Creating integrations
Defining integration allows you to communicate with external tools.
Archiving integrations
Archive the no longer needed integrations.
Creating plugins
You can create your own plugins and install them in HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). After installing custom plugins, you can integrate them in your releases, reports, and value streams.
Managing native integrations
Native integrations add external functionality to releases, deployment plans, and pipelines.
Migrating integrations
Migrate the legacy plug-in integrations to new plug-in integrations.
Uploading a build to a pipeline
Uploading deployment status
How to
The topics in this section describe how to work with HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) features. Tutorials and workbooks are available for users of all experience levels.
Accessing the user interface
The user interface provides access to reports.
Creating reports
Use the Home page to create one of the following reports.
Sharing reports
You can share reports with others in your organization and who are authenticated to HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). By default, you see only the reports that you create.
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.
Notices for DevOps Velocity
This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.
DevOps Velocity GDPR statement
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been adopted by the European Union (EU) and applies from May 25, 2018.
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