Publish a design version

Publishing a design version 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.

For topology designs, 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.

Notes:

• 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:

To publish a design

1. In the Codar Management Console, click Designs.
2. Select the type of design you want to publish (Sequenced or Topology).
3. Click Designer.
4. Click the version of the design you want to publish.
5. Click the gear icon on the right hand side and selectPublish.