All companies, large and small, manage multiple environments for the purpose of development, testing, or hosting production solutions. Each of these environments comprise a number of platforms, technologies, and packaged applications across a varying number of servers (whether physical, virtual, or in the cloud). The centralized FlexDeploy server requires configuration information to be able to communicate across this broad topology.

Let's checkout an example of environments below. You may have completely different names and number of environments. FlexDeploy allows for configurations of environments which is further used for approvals, scheduledschedule windows, pipeline configurations etc.

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So, FlexDeploy allows customers to describe their topology using Environments, Instances, andEndpoints. This topology definition provides the necessary mechanics for configuring Endpoints and properties to effectively manage your enterprise network of platforms, technologies, applications and servers.

Screens used to configure and maintain Topology Settings

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