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.
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.
Running open pipeline deployment
You can run the deployment and release of the application using the HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) pipeline.

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.
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.
Learning
Learn how to complete frequently-used tasks such as creating value streams.
Managing licenses
Configure your license or apply a trial key.
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.
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.
  - Managing pipelines
    Add applications and jobs to your pipeline, and add or modify stages.
  - Managing hybrid Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline
    You can create a hybrid CI and CD pipeline, add or modify the different applications and jobs to the pipeline.
  - Managing API-driven pipelines
    API-driven pipeline applications
  - Managing pipeline gates
    Gates ensure that orchestrations cannot be started in an environment until the gate rule is satisfied.
  - Running pipeline applications
    Run applications in a pipeline environment.
  - Running open pipeline deployment
    You can run the deployment and release of the application using the HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) pipeline.
- Solution versions
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 DevOps Velocity (Velocity)
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.
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.
Glossary

Running open pipeline deployment

You can run the deployment and release of the application using the HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) pipeline.

To run a deployment from Velocity pipeline perform the following steps,

Create a pipeline for the project in plugin.
Link the project to the repository in plugin.
Integrate the plugin by following the steps in integration section.
Add plugin project to the environment of Velocity pipeline by following the steps in managing pipeline section.
The latest build version of the plugin project gets populated in the Input stage of the Velocity pipeline.
To deploy the application, click for the environment and select the required version of the project for deployment.
Click Deployment from plan to view the deployment task status. After the completion of deployment task, the status changes to Complete.
The result of the project deployment is updated in pipeline.