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Create a simple helloWorld deployment
In this tutorial, you create a simple application with HCL Launch. You use standard plug-ins to create a component and define an application that deploys the component to an environment.
Introduction
In this tutorial, you create a simple application with HCL Launch. You use standard plug-ins to create a component and define an application that deploys the component to an environment.

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    - Create a simple helloWorld deployment
      In this tutorial, you create a simple application with HCL Launch. You use standard plug-ins to create a component and define an application that deploys the component to an environment.
      - Introduction
        In this tutorial, you create a simple application with HCL Launch. You use standard plug-ins to create a component and define an application that deploys the component to an environment.
      - Configure the helloWorld tutorial system
        To deploy the tutorial component, or any component, you must have an agent. An agent is a lightweight process that runs on a target computer and does the actual work of deploying components.
      - Lesson 1 Create the helloWorld component
        Components contain artifacts and processes. Artifacts include runnable files, images, databases, configuration instructions, and anything else that is associated with a software project. Processes define the activities that components can perform.
      - Lesson 2 Create a component process
        Component processes are user-defined tasks that operate on components.
      - Lesson 3 Create an application
        Applications manage components, typically by deploying them into environments.
      - Lesson 4 Configure an application environment
        When you create an environment, you map resources to it that define where the parent application can run deployments.
      - Lesson 5 Create an application process
        Application processes direct underlying component processes and orchestrate multi-component deployments.
      - Lesson 6 Deploy the component
        To deploy the component, run the application process on an environment.
      - Summary
        In this tutorial, you learned how to deploy a component with HCL Launch.
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Introduction

In this tutorial, you create a simple application with HCL Launch. You use standard plug-ins to create a component and define an application that deploys the component to an environment.

The deployment that you create in this tutorial, although simple, introduces you to the most-used product features. The helloWorld deployment that you create in the tutorial deploys a component by moving some files on the local file system to another location on the file system, presumably a location that is used by an application server.

Learning objectives

In this tutorial, you learn how to complete these tasks:

Create a component and add a user-defined property to it.
Import artifacts to create a component version.
Create a component process.
Create an application and application process.
Configure an environment with resources and apply a user-defined tag to it.
Run the application process to deploy the component.

Time required:1 hour

Time required

This tutorial takes approximately 1 hour to finish. If you explore other concepts that are related to this tutorial, it might take longer to complete.

System requirements

To run this tutorial, you must have an installation of HCL Launch, version 6.0 or later

Prerequisites

To complete this tutorial, you must have installed the HCL Launch server and at least one agent. Typically, the agent is installed on a computer or system other than the one where the server is located. However, for simplicity, the agent can be installed on the same system where the server is installed.