When you add a pipeline, you specify merge criteria and configure stages and steps in the continuous delivery workflow. For example, you can specify that a branch must be peer-reviewed before it can be merged, and you can specify that Pega unit tests must be run after a branch is merged and is in the QA stage of the pipeline.

• Modifying an application pipeline

  You can modify the details of your pipeline, such as configuring tasks, updating the repositories that the pipeline uses, and modifying the URLs of the systems in your environment. You cannot modify information if your pipeline is running.

• Pipeline templates

  When you create a pipeline, Deployment Manager prompts you to categorize your pipeline and apply one of three templates. These pipeline templates help you structure pipelines for their ultimate purpose, as well separate business needs for better organizational efficiency.

• Environment templates

  Environment templates are applied during stage creation and determine which tasks are added to a stage by default. Default stages and their associated environment templates are automatically added to your pipeline at the time of pipeline creation based on the type of pipeline created (merge, deployment, business change). You can modify the tasks for each stage on the Pipeline model screen.

• Task catalog

  Deployment Manager supports a range of tasks to support the different application deployment scenarios for Pega powered applications. Tasks relevant to a use case are structured by environment templates and pipeline templates.

• Creating and using custom tasks

  Deployment Manager supports a range of tasks to support the different application deployment scenarios for Pega powered applications out-of-the-box. Although comprehensive, the default task configurations cannot account for every use case for every customer. The orchestrator-based custom task functionality allows you to create unique tasks specific to your business needs which can be included in pipelines. Any task not shipped with Deployment Manager is considered to be a custom task.

• Using multispeed deployments in 5.1.x

  Achieve greater flexibility over your pipeline workflow through multiple deployments that queue in the same stage of a pipeline. With this functionality, developers can regularly merge their changes for selective testing and promotion of deployments without blocking the pipeline. This approach introduces the concept of a transition between stages requiring user input to proceed.

• Archiving and activating pipelines

  If your role has the appropriate permissions, you can archive inactive pipelines so that they are not displayed on the Deployment Manager landing page.

• Disabling and enabling a pipeline

  If your role has the appropriate permissions, you can disable a pipeline on which errors continuously cause a deployment to fail. Disabling a pipeline prevents branch merging, but you can still view, edit, and stop deployments on a disabled pipeline.

• Managing artifacts generated by Deployment Manager

  You can view, download, and delete application packages in repositories that are on the orchestration server. If you are using Deployment Manager on Pega Cloud Services, application packages that you have deployed to cloud repositories are stored on Pega Cloud Services. To manage your cloud storage space, you can download and permanently delete the packages.

• Deleting a pipeline

  If your role has the appropriate permission, you can delete a pipeline. When you delete a pipeline, its associated application packages are not removed from the repositories that the pipeline is configured to use.