An Environment Instance, as its name suggests, is simply an association between one environment and one instance. An Environment Instance is created by either associating an instance to an environment on the edit/create environment wizard, or associating an environment to an instance on the edit/create instance wizard. The association can then be used to assign endpoints and provide values for any properties mapped to those environment instances (through workflows or plugins).
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Figure 5.30 depicts the environment instances for SOA2. In this case, the FlexDeploy SOA Plugin's soaDeploy operation was associated to the SOA2 instance. The soaDeploy operation defines several environment instance scoped properties that must be defined for the operation to succeed.
| SOA1 | SOA2 |
|---|---|---|
DEV | Endpoint(s) | N/A |
SIT | Endpoint (s) | Endpoint (s ) |
UAT | Endpoint (s) | N/A |
PROD | Endpoint (s) | Endpoint (s) |
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