Publishing a design

Publishing a design makes it available as an offering to service consumers. You must have a CSA license installed before you can publish a design.

A complete design with an active package in the Production stage contains package-specific properties as part of the design and can be published.

A partial design with an active package in the Production stage contains package-specific properties as part of the design, but it cannot be published until a final composed design is created by deploying the production package.

Publishing a partial design is different depending on which licenses you have installed:

  • A Codar application design that has been advanced to the Production stage is deployed on a production infrastructure, and then the composed production design is made visible on successful production deployment. The design can then be published to service consumers.
  • A design that is not a Codar application design must be saved as a composed design from the Test tab. The design can then be published to service consumers.

Note A sequenced design can be published only if it has no packages or if the package is in the last stage of Pipeline Management, with an active deployment instance.

If a topology design has been tagged with an application, it cannot be published unless it is untagged.

The following figure illustrates when a sequenced design can be published based on the license used:

The following figure illustrates when a topology design can be published based on the license used: