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Deploy Environment

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Deploy Environment

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Deploy Environment

Deploy a Parasoft Service Virtualization environment

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              
- name: Deploy Environment

              
  uses: parasoft/[email protected]
Learn more about this action in parasoft/deploy-environment-action

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Deploy an Environment

This action enables you to stand up a consistent, disposable environment for testing your application. It deploys and provisions a Parasoft service virtualization environment to the specified Continous Testing Platform endpoint. You can also configure the action to copy Parasoft virtual assets (PVA) and data repositories from an exisiting environment when deploying the new environment.

Usage

Add the following entry to your Github workflow YAML file with the required inputs:

uses: parasoft/deploy-environment-action@v1
with:
  ctpUrl: 'http://exampleUrl'
  ctpUsername: 'username'
  ctpPassword: ${{ secrets.password }}
  system: 'system'
  environment: 'environment'
  instance: 'instance'

Required Inputs

The following inputs are required to use this action:

Input Description
ctpURL Specifies the Continuous Testing Platform endpoint where the environment will be deployed.
ctpUsername Specifies a user name for accessing the Continuous Testing Platform endpoint.
ctpPassword Specifies a Github encrypted secret for accessing the Continuous Testing Platform endpoint. Refer to the Encrypted Secrets Documentation for details on how to create an encrypted secret.
system Specifies the name of the system in Continous Testing Platform that contains the environment instance you want to provision.
environment Specifies the name of the environment that contains the instances you want to provision.
instance Specifies the environment instance you want to provision.

Optional Inputs

The following optional inputs are also supported:

Input Description
abortOnFailure Aborts a provisioning action on failure and marks the action as failed. Set to true to enable. Default is false.
copyToVirtualize Replicates virtual assets in the environment to another server. Set to true to enable. Default is false.
virtServerName Specifies the name of a target Virtualize server for replicated virtual assets. The copyToVirtualize input must be enabled.
newEnvironmentName Specifies the name for the replicated environment. This environment can be destroyed with the destroy-environment-action when testing has been completed.
duplicateDataRepo Duplicates the associated data repositories before provisioning. Set to true to enable. Default is false.
duplicateType Specifies where to duplicate the data repository. You can specify the following values:
  • default: Duplicates to the current data repository server on the specified system.
  • target: Duplicates to a data repository server on the same host as the target Virtualize server.
  • custom: Duplicate to a data repository server on a specified host. See reportHost.
repoHost Specifies the host of the data repository server when duplicateType is custom.
repoPort Specifies the port of the data repository server when duplicateType is set to target or custom.
repoUsername Specifies the username of the data repository server when duplicateType is set to target or custom.
repoPassword Specifies the password of the data repository server when duplicateType is set to target or custom.

Build and Test this Action Locally

  1. Install the dependencies:
$ npm install
  1. Build the typescript and package it for distribution:
$ npm run build && npm run package
  1. Run the tests:
$ npm test

 PASS  ./index.test.js

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