Home
Extending Product Functions
Learn how to extend the function of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity)
Managing native integrations
Native integrations add external functionality to releases, deployment plans, and pipelines.
Managing IBM DevOps Deploy integrations
Use IBM DevOps Deploy applications in your deployments and pipelines.

Extending Product Functions
Learn how to extend the function of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity)
- Introducing plugins
  Extend HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) by configuring plugin integrations to external tools.
- Preventing plugins installs in unsupported server versions
  Plugin versions incompatible with HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) are prevented from installing.
- Creating integrations
  Defining integration allows you to communicate with external tools.
- Archiving integrations
  Archive the no longer needed integrations.
- Creating plugins
  You can create your own plugins and install them in HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). After installing custom plugins, you can integrate them in your releases, reports, and value streams.
- Managing native integrations
  Native integrations add external functionality to releases, deployment plans, and pipelines.
  - Managing IBM DevOps Deploy integrations
    Use IBM DevOps Deploy applications in your deployments and pipelines.
  - Managing Jenkins integrations
    Manage Jenkins™ jobs with your deployments and pipelines.
  - Integrating with ServiceNow
    Create and manage ServiceNow™ change requests with HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). Update change requests with Velocity tasks and then react to status changes. Control deployment progress with change request updates.
- Migrating integrations
  Migrate the legacy plug-in integrations to new plug-in integrations.
- Uploading a build to a pipeline
- Uploading deployment status

Configuring IBM DevOps Deploy integrations

Use IBM DevOps Deploy applications in your deployments and pipelines.

Before you begin

Obtain a token from your IBM DevOps Deploy server. When you create the IBM DevOps Deploy token, specify admin as the user.

This task requires that you are an HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) administrator.

About this task

After you configure an integration, create tasks to run IBM DevOps Deploy applications during your deployments. You can also add applications to your pipeline stages and run them that way.

Procedure

Click Settings > Integrations > Plugins.
A list of defined integrations with current information about each integration is displayed in a table.
Click Add Integration for DevOps Deploy.
In the Add DevOps Deploy Integration window, enter a name for the integration, and in the DevOps Deploy server URL field, specify the URL.
The format is HTTPS://hostname:port. For example, HTTPS://sampleUCD:8443.
Note: If you are running DevOps Deploy locally, you can substitute HTTPS://host.docker.internal:port in place of localhost. The following graphic illustrates how to use the property:
Figure 1. host.docker.internal
In the Deploy access token field, paste the token from DevOps Deploy.
Click Save.

Note: The initial synchronization includes four months of data. Depending on the amount of data, the synchronization process can take some time.

What to do next

Synchronization occurs every fifteen minutes but you can synchronize any time by clicking actions

actions

Actions > Resync on the Integrations page. To prevent synchronization, click the Disable/Enable field on the Integrations page.