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• A roll-out includes to transfer configuration objects between environments, e.g. from development to test and to production.

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• Steps for a roll-out include
  • that roll-out might include shared responsibilities, e.g being performed by an individual that is different from the person who managed the configuration, e.g.
    • a developer would create workflows and jobs in a development environment and deploy them to Masters and Agents in that environment.
    • an application manager would perform some quality assurance and pick up configurations from a development environment for roll-out to a test environment
    • a release manager would authorize roll-out from a test environment to a production environment.
  • to export a configuration the affected configuration objects are downloaded to a single archive file (.zip, .tar.gz)
  • to sign the downloaded configuration objects should Security Level High be in place including the tasks
    • to transfer the downloaded archive to a secure environment, e.g. a computer that is separated from the network.
    • to extract the archive to disk and to use a program that applies to company standards to sign the files included with the archive. This step includes that the user's private key is used to sign files. As a result for each file extracted from the archive a signature file is created.
    • to add the extracted files and the signature files to an archive file.
  • to transfer the archive with signed files to the target environment. This includes to use any means for file transfer such as copying between servers, use of SCP, SFTP etc.
  • to import the archive with signed files to JOC Cockpit in the target environment.
• The final step includes to deploy the imported signed configuration objects to the target environment.
  • This task can be performed by the same individual who signed and transferred the archive file or this can require a separate role in JOC Cockpit to be authorized to deploy in the target environment.

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