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Promoting a release

Promote a release to deploy it to the next environment in the development life cycle.

Promoting a release moves it forward to the next stage in the development life cycle. The release is removed from the current environment, and deployed to the next environment.

For example:

  • Once you have finished building the release in the development environment, you can promote the release to the test environment and test the flows in the release.

  • Once the release has been tested and is ready to go live, you can promote it to the production environment.

You can only promote a release forward to the next environment. To move a release back to the previous environment, you must roll it back. Refer to Rolling back a release.

Promoting a release

To promote a release to the next environment:

  1. Click on the release you want to promote in the Release section of the Environments page.
  2. The details for the release are expanded. Click Promote to [environment].
  3. The Promote release form opens. Check that the Target environment is correct, and click Promote to [environment].
  4. Once the release is promoted, the Promote release successful dialog is shown. Click Finish.
  5. The release is removed from the current environment, and deployed to the next environment.

Running a Flow in an Environment

When you run a Flow in an environment, you always run the latest deployed Flow to that environment. Deploying or promoting a release to an environment effectively replaces and updates the version of those flows to the new version in that release. For example, if an environment runs Flow v1, and you deploy Flow v2, the new deployment replaces the version of that Flow from v1 to v2.

The Releases section in the Environments screen lists all the Flow releases deployed to an environment. To run a Flow in an environment:

  1. Go to the Environments section and select the specific environment. You can do this by either:
    • Clicking the environment tile.
    • Clicking the Manage [environment] text within the tile.
  2. Select the Flows tab.
  3. Locate the Flow in the list and click the Run in [environment].
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