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What's new in Codar 1.80

Codar 1.80 has the following new features:

Dashboard Widgets

Codar dashboard displays notifications, analytics, and recent updates. These widgets give you a quick snapshot of the current activities in Codar. The Approval widget displays the approval requests pending for the logged in user. The package widget provides a list of packages created across the applications.

Dashboard widgets

Server Configuration and Pool Creation

You can create and allocate servers pools to lifecycle stages/environments that will be used by Codar for scale out.

A typical design may consist of VCenter or Amazon servers. When these designs are used for application deployment, Codar creates these servers. In some cases, the servers might have been created through an external system. Those servers are classified as Existing Servers. These servers can also be used in Release Automation by using Existing Server feature in Codar.

Codar does not discover servers in a user environment. Lifecycle management of the externally created servers is not done by Codar. Codar uses the information provided.

Configure servers

Associate pools

Script Actions

Bring in your own shell scripts and plug them in as release pipeline actions. Using script actions, you will be able to run the scripts on the target machine as part of release gate action.

Create a script release gate action

Generation of Designs

Generation of designs for simple two-tier web applications on Tomcat, IS, and MySQL. You can also generate Windows designs.

Generate topology designs

MS TFS Integration

Build a template with utility to trigger Codar application deployment remotely from TFS build jobs.

In-Product Content Store

Browse all intelligent content such as OO content packs from Codar, no need to visit the HPLN site.

Content Store

Workflows

You can create workflows which can be configured as custom actions in release gates.