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When you set out to define a permissions model for IBM UrbanCode Deploy it's often a requirement to document the model for discussions/approvals...  While UCD provides tools to build and maintain the permissions model it doesn't give you a 'single view' that can be used in workshops and other forums…

Logging onto, particularly production machines, is not a DevOps best practice, so how can we get logs to diagnose faults? Particularly with Production systems, it's a poor DevOps practice to login to machines to make changes.  Ideally, everything should happen through your automated systems so there is no need.  This…

You may have noticed that there is no documented way of adding files to a UCD Component version.  The only ways open to you seem to be either the udclient or using source plugins to import your component version assets. But there must be a way right? The udclient does it – so how…

Changing the mappings of Agents to Relays can be a time-consuming business,  until now.... Re-configuring IBM UrbanCode Deploy (UCD) agents to either put them behind a relay or to change the relays they work with used be time-consuming.  You either had to write a UCD process to run on the…

In part 1 we looked at the basic options available for importing new component versions into UCD.  This time we take a deeper look at the options available including some of the newer capabilities introduced in 7.0.1 and later. We also touch on the change from autorun process on component…

There are several ways to import new component versions into UrbanCode Deploy each with its pros and cons.  In this article, we'll explore this important topic and also look at some gotcha's and ways to avoid them. The most obvious way to import new component versions is using one of…

UrbanCode Deploy agents are normally pretty self-sufficient.They self-manage their working directories for the most part and you don't have to do a lot with them.  But there are a couple of scenarios where they need some help to make sure they are managed.         An IBM UrbanCode…

Do you know all of the scope modifiers we can use to reference UCD properties?     IBM UrbanCode Deploy has a construct that we can use in many places to substitute the name of a property for its value.  So we can use an expression like ${p:propertyName} or the alternate…

In this article, we're going to explore two of the property types that allow UrbanCode Deploy to fetch property values from external data sources. UrbanCode Deploy provides a couple of value types for properties to be able to select from an external data source.  These are Http Select and Http Multi-Select.  NOTE: They…

There are occasions when it may be desirable to migrate assets from one UCD server instance to another.  This might happen for example if you have a separate instance to develop major changes to say a component template which would be potentially too disruptive to normal operations if it was…

  Last time we looked at how we can easily discover and utilise the UCD REST client libraries to write your own scripts without having to write all the code for an http exchange.  But as we said, these libraries don't provide 100% coverage of all the available API's. Wouldn't…