irCatalog® is a business rule management tool that provides centralized management of rules to ensure the integrity of business rules, keep everyone working on the latest version of rules, and promote sharing of common rules across customers, processes or applications.
The DevOps solution requires a number of binaries and configuration parameters to be deployed to the Azure® irCatalog Service instance. There are two options for deploying these components. This deployment option can be used after normally installing and configuring irCatalog Service on Windows, hosted in IIS.
This section applies when deploying only the DevOps add-on components to an existing instance of the irCatalog Service. The steps to configure the local/on premise catalog service with DevOps features are:
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Create a backup of the folder where irCatalog service was originally installed. The default location is C:\Program Files (x86)\InRule\irServer\RepositoryService\IisService.
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Download InRule.Catalog.Service_Local.zip and unzip in a folder on the file system.
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Copy the content of the bin folder to the existing ...\RepositoryService\IisService\bin\ folder.
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Add the InRuleDevOps.config file to the original root folder of the irCatalog service file system deployment.
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For all the available DevOps actions, follow the corresponding details available at the links below, which include how. More details are also available on page Orchestration by Configuration.
- Understanding and using notifications
- Slack integration
- Azure DevOps integration
- Trigger a DevOps pipeline running regression tests and promoting rule application
- Azure Event Grid integration
- Azure Service Bus integration
- Generate Rule Application Report
- Generate Rule Application Difference Report
- Generate Java Rule Application (JAR file) with irDistribution Service
- Generate JavaScript Rule Application with irDistribution Service
- DevOps Approval Flow
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Edit InRuleDevOps.config with all the pertinent configuration parameters to drive the runtime behavior, like which actions to run on events and necessary configuration for each action.
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Edit the file web.config with these items:
- The reference to the InRuleDevOps.config file
<appSettings file="InRuleDevOps.config" />- Changes for enabling the event listener behavior, as detailed here.
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Restart IIS service and confirm that the irCatalog service works properly: browse to the URL in browser, open a rule application in irAuthor®.
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Verify using irAuthor. Using irAuthor you should now be able to normally connect to your catalog using the URL.
