Navigating the Portal

North, South, East, West

The Organization Page

The organization section is where you will manage users, invite new users and logout of the portal.

The Invite a New User form allows you to add additional users to your organization.

The Credentials Page

The credentials page is where you will select your Venue and add your cloud credentials.

The Environments Page

The Environment list displays all Environments that have been added to the organization.

Selecting a specific Environment navigates to the Environment view page allowing you to add blueprints, set your venue, perform actions and monitor jobs.

Blueprints panel

The Environment blueprints section displays the blueprint(s) that have been added to the Environment and the corresponding Environment operations.

Apply

The apply button will instantiate a new Environment, or implement any changes made to the definitions of the Infrastructure Objects in the blueprint(s) in an existing Environment. If you open the Job at the bottom of the screen you can see the progress of the provisioning/modifying action that is taking place.

Destroy

Destroy will remove all Infrastructure Objects defined in the Environment.

Preview

Preview allows you to see a summary of the actions that would take place if Apply was used.

Compile

Compile will process the blueprint and display what will be provisioned. In the case if syntax errors in the blueprint, compile will provide errors indicating what to fix.

Inventory

Once you have deployed your infrastructure, Inventory will be available in the Environment details. Inventory will display a list of objects from the last applied Environment.

Variables panel

The Variables section displays the variables that have been specified in the blueprint(s). The user can view the defaults add or override variables here.

Jobs panel

When you apply , preview or destroy an Environment in a venue, a job tracks the progress and results. The job will influence the state of the Environment and provide feedback as to what would change (for a preview) or what did change (for an apply or destroy).

Selecting a specific Job will provide you with an Overview and the Details tab will provide in depth logging of the specified job.

The Blueprints Page

The blueprint list displays all blueprints that have been added to the organization.

Selecting a specific blueprint navigates to the blueprint editor page allowing you to make changes to the blueprint, use versioning and enter development view.

Development view allows the user to perform Environment operations while editing a blueprint for real time feedback on changes being performed.

The Secrets Page

The secrets page is where you will create and manage organizational, team and user level secrets.