DocumentationAEMCloud Manager Documentation for AEM 6.x

CI/CD Pipelines ci-cd-pipeline

Last update: Fri Jul 08 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

CREATED FOR:

  • Admin

Learn about CI/CD pipelines and how they handle deployments to staging and production environments in Cloud Manager.

Overview overview

Cloud Manager includes a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) framework, which allows implementation teams to quickly test and deliver new or updated code. For example, implementation teams can set up, configure, and start an automated CI/CD pipeline that leverages Adobe coding best practices to perform a thorough code scan and ensure the highest code quality.

The CI/CD pipeline also automates unit and performance testing processes to increase deployment efficiency and proactively identify critical issues that are expensive to fix after deployment. Implementation teams can access a comprehensive code performance report to gain visibility into potential impact on KPIs and critical security validations if the code gets deployed to production.

The Pipeline Process pipeline-process

This diagram illustrates what happens once a release is triggered in Cloud Manager using a pipeline.

The pipeline process

Pipeline Step
Description
1. Start a release
A deployment manager triggers a release either manually, with a git commit, or based on a recurring schedule.
2. Create release tag
Cloud Manager creates a git tag to mark the release using an automatically generated version number, e.g. 2018.531.245527.0000001222.
3. Built as release with auto-generated version
Cloud Manager builds the application with the newly-assigned version number.
4. Evaluate code quality
Cloud Manager scans the source code and provides a summary before code can be deployed to the staging environment.
5. Versioned artifact(s) stored
The release artifacts are stored for later usage in the deployment steps.
6. Automatic deployment of artifact(s) to AMS AEM staging
The release artifact is deployed to the staging environment.
7. Trigger automated tests
Cloud Manager runs performance and security tests on the artifact.
8. Production trigger deployment
After the automated tests are complete, Cloud Manager starts the deployment to production.
9. Cloud Manager gets artifacts(s) to deploy
Cloud Manager pulls the stored release artifacts.
10. Deploy artifacts(s) to production
The release artifacts are deployed to the production environment.

How to Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline how-to-setup-a-ci-cd-pipeline

To learn more about pipeline configuration, see the documents Configuring Production Pipelines and Configuring Non-Production Pipelines.

Quality Gates quality-gates

The CI/CD pipeline provides quality gates, or acceptance criteria, which must be met before the code can be moved from the staging environment to the deployment environment. There are three gates in the pipeline:

  • Code Quality
  • Performance Testing
  • Security Testing

For each of these gates, there are three levels of issues that can be identified:

  • Critical - Critical issues identified by the gate cause an immediate failure of the pipeline.
  • Important - Important issues identified by the gate cause the pipeline to enter a paused state. A deployment manager, project manager, or business owner can either override the issues, in which case the pipeline proceeds, or they can accept the issues, in which case the pipeline stops with a failure.
  • Information - Information issues identified by the gate are provided purely for informational purposes and have no impact on the pipeline execution.

This is an example of a code scan with issues identified.

Code scan example

How to Set Up Gates how-to-setup-gates

See the document Configuring Production Pipelines for details on setting up your code, quality, and performance gates.

recommendation-more-help
c6cdc82b-cee9-48e0-a6ee-48149d5e72c3