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Most customers are installing FlexDeploy in Test and Production environment. Purpose of Test environment is to try various patches or beta capabilities of plugins or even trying some complex workflow and/or custom plugins. So FlexDeploy test environment may be restricted for use to very select members of team. It is good idea to periodically (mostly when applying major FlexDeploy upgrade/patch) clone FlexDeploy Production configuration/execution data to FlexDeploy Test environment, which will allow you to easily validate new FlexDeploy upgrade/patch.

This process should only be followed to perform clone of FlexDeploy Production FlexDeploy to Test environment. Make sure that Test environment is restricted for use by very few members of your team to avoid confusion, as purpose of Test environment is only for validating FlexDeploy itself and is not used for actual build/deploy activities, you will do some build/deploy activities but that is strictly for validation purposes

This process is only applied for 4.0, 4.0.x version of FlexDeploy. Also, source and target version of FlexDeploy must be same.

  • Export data from Production FlexDeploy database. You will be prompted to enter password for system user.
    • This step will create fd_bkup.dmp file with all details from FD,FF and FD_ADMIN schemas. File should be in data pump directory, for example - C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\admin\XE\dpdump.
    • If your database is only used for FlexDeploy application, you may be able to perform backup and recovery operations using other Database tools.
Export data from source FlexDeploy database
expdp system directory=DATA_PUMP_DIR dumpfile=fd_bkup.dmp schemas=FD,FF,FD_ADMIN
  • Take backup of artifact repository folder using tar/zip commands on Production FlexDeploy database. For example,
    • cd /flexdeploy/artifacts
    • tar -czvf /app/backup/flexdeploy_artifacts_prod.tar.gz *
  • Copy fd_bkup.dmp file on to Test FlexDeploy database server in to data pump directory, for example - C:\oraclexe\app\oracle\admin\XE\dpdump.
  • Import data in to target FlexDeploy database. Make sure to run this on Test environment only.
    • You will be prompted to enter password for system user. You must delete FD,FF,FD_ADMIN users from Test environment before starting import process. If necessary take backup of Test FlexDeploy database prior to starting this process.
    • Make sure there are no errors in import process. If there are errors, make corrections appropriately and restart import process.
Import data in to target FlexDeploy database
impdp system directory=DATA_PUMP_DIR dumpfile=fd_bkup.dmp schemas=FD,FF,FD_ADMIN
  • At this point Test FlexDeploy database should be copy of Production database.
  • Now make various updates to make sure limit access to FlexDeploy Test environment and limit what FlexDeploy Test can do against various endpoints. You can customize any of these steps as per your needs.

    • Disable external realm and users, so access to FlexDeploy is limited. For example, 

      update fd.fd_realm set is_active='N';
update fd.fd_user set is_active='N' where local_user='N';
commit;
    • Disable all endpoints, so Test FlexDeploy can not run any executions until Administrator explicitly enables some endpoints.
  • Copy artifacts zip file to Test FlexDeploy server and extract it in artifact repository folder. Make sure to run this on Test environment only.
    • cd /flexdeploy/artifacts
    • tar -czvf /app/backup/flexdeploy_artifacts_test.tar.gz *
    • rm -rf *
    • tar -xzvf /app/backup/flexdeploy_artifacts_prod.tar.gz
  • Now FlexDeploy artifact repository is also copied.
  • Now you can start Test FlexDeploy and validate it.
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