Environments and Deployment (New UI)

Last modified: October 17, 2024

Introduction

You can use the Environments page to access information about your environments, deploy packages, manage certificates and access restrictions, and more. To access your app’s Environments page, go to Apps and click Environments on your app. You can also directly visit the Environments page using this link: https://cloud.home.mendix.com/link/deploy/APP_ID, with APP_ID replaced by your app ID.

Tab Overview

The Environments page has the following tabs:

  • Overview
  • Deployment Packages
  • Permissions
  • Activity

Overview Tab

In the Overview tab, you can view information about your environments.

You can see the following information:

  • Environment name
  • Studio Pro Target ( ) – This is present if the environment is the designated Studio Pro target; for more information, see Studio Pro Deployment Settings.
  • Licensed badge – This is present if the environment is licensed.
  • Environment status:
    • – The application in this environment is running.
    • – No application has been started yet in this environment, or it has been turned off.
    • – The application in this environment is experiencing some difficulties; check the alerts page or logs for more information.
    • – The application in this environment is unstable and probably not usable anymore.
  • The date and time the app was started, if it is running; this is set in the user’s time zone
  • Version of the deployment package
  • Name of the deployment package

You can also perform the following actions:

  • Deploy ( ) – Launches the Deploy wizard, where you can configure and start a new deployment for the selected environment.
  • View Details ( ) – Goes to the Environment Details page.
  • View App — Launches the app in a new tab.
  • More Options ( ):
    • Restart – Stops the running application and starts it again. Restarting your app is required for applying new constant values or scheduled events to the environment.
    • Start - Starts a stopped application.
    • Live Log – Shows a live log for your application. It is identical to the View Live Log button on the Logs page.
    • Debugger Info – Shows the settings needed to connect the debugger in Studio Pro to your app. For more information on debugging in the cloud, see How To Debug Microflows Remotely.
    • Running Now – Monitor all actions that are currently running in your environment. For more information, see Running Now.
    • Logged in Users – Shows all users who are logged in to your app.
    • Stop – Stops the application.

To view more information about each environment and the deployment package it is running, use the Expand ( ) toggle on the environment.

In this section, you can view additional information about the environment resources and the deployed package:

  • For the environment, you can view the environment ID, the deployment region, the cloud resource pack, and the scaling configuration. To launch the Change Scaling wizard and scale the environment, click Scale.

  • For the deployment package, you can view the package name, version, and runtime. To launch the Promote a Package wizard and promote the package to another environment, click Promote.

Deployment Packages Tab

In the Deployment Packages tab, you can view information about your deployment packages.

You can perform the following actions on this tab:

  • Use the Search field to search the deployment packages by name or version
  • Click Upload a Package to upload a deployment package from your local device
  • Click Create a Package to create a deployment package based on a specific branch

You can also see information and perform actions on the existing deployment packages. For each deployment package, the table contains the following details:

  • Deployment status
  • Deployment package name
  • Deployment label, for packages that are deployed
  • Version of the deployment package
  • Date that the deployment package was uploaded
  • Uploader account
  • Expiry date of the deployment package, if one is set Currently deployed packages do not expire. Among any non-deployed packages, the five most recently deployed packages do not expire. Expiry dates apply only to packages that do not meet either of two non-expiry criteria outlined above. These packages are set to expire and be deleted within 15 days, unless they are deployed before that date.

If you click More Options ( ) on a package, you can do the following:

  • View details, including the package size, description, build output, and an overview of the environments that are running the package
  • Delete the package

Permissions Tab

In the Permissions tab, the Technical Contact and other team members who have Manage Permissions enabled can manage various permissions to the environments for each team member. Team members who have a role with Cloud Access can view the permissions.

For details on managing node permissions, see Node Permissions.

Activity Tab

In the Activity tab, you can view a log of deployment, backup, and permission activities performed on your environments.

If you are the Technical Contact, you can download a copy of the activity log by following these steps:

  1. Click Download to CSV. (This button is only visible if you are the Technical Contact.)
  2. Select the period for which you want to download log entries.
  3. Click Download.

Cloud Settings

If you click Cloud Settings ( ) from any tab, you can adjust custom domains, access restriction profiles, and services.

Environment Settings

If you are the Technical Contact, you can use Environment Settings to choose the default target for the deployment package. If you do not select a target, the .mda packages is built and uploaded without being deployed.

Custom Domains

In the Custom Domains tab, you can manage your custom domain certificates at the application level. You can also see an overview of linked custom domains.

When you need your Mendix app to be accessible via your own URL (for example, https://myapp.mycompany.com/), you must provide a custom SSL/TLS certificate for your domain. This enables your Mendix app to be accessible via a secure connection. For more information, see Custom Domains.

Access Restriction Profiles

In the Access Restriction Profiles tab, you can manage custom access restriction profiles. These profiles can combine IP range filters and client certificate verification, so that any match on either the IP range or the client certificate will grant access. You can apply access restriction profiles to path-based access restrictions in specific environments of the application.

For details on setting up access restriction profiles, see Restrict Access for Incoming Requests.

Services

In the Services tab, the Technical Contact can determine which custom services can be used in the app’s environments.

Available Services

One custom service is available: Mendix Event Broker. This service is required to use Mendix Business Events on production apps.

Enabling Custom Services

The Technical Contact can only see services that have been licensed for their company. If the Technical Contact cannot enable the service, this means that the service has previously been licensed, but the license has expired.

Team members who have a role with Cloud Access can see which services are enabled or disabled.

Once a service has been enabled for an app, Technical Contacts can selectively enable it for each environment. For more information, see the Services section of the Environment Details page.

Creating a Package

The Create a Package wizard creates deployment packages. Follow the wizard by performing the following steps:

  1. In the Deployment Packages tab, click Create a Package. This launches the Create a Package wizard.

  2. In the Select Package tab, select the branch on which to base the build.

  3. In the Select Revision tab, select the branch revision.

  4. In the Choose a Tag tab, specify the version tag. This includes the major, minor, and patch version numbers.

  5. Click Build this Revision.

Deploying a Package

The Deploy or Promote wizard deploys packages to selected environments. Follow the wizard by performing the following steps:

  1. Launch the wizard by choosing one of the following options:

    • Select an environment to which you want to deploy a package by clicking the Deploy ( ) icon on the Overview tab.
    • Select a package that you want to deploy by clicking the Deploy ( ) icon on the Deployment Packages tab, or by clicking Promote by a package name on the Overview tab.

  2. Perform one of the following actions, depending on whether you selected the package or the environment first:

    • If you launched the wizard by selecting an environment, the first screen of the wizard is the Select Package tab. Use it to select a package from repository.
    • If you launched the wizard by selecting a package, the first screen of the wizard is the Select Environment tab. Use it to select the target environment for your package.

  3. In the Configure Environment tab, review the new constant values, and adjust them as required.

  4. In the Backup tab, choose if you want to back up your app before deploying the new package. The app is unavailable while the backup runs.

  5. In the Deploy tab, review the deployment settings:

    1. To see an overview of the configuration for this deployment, click View Summary. This summary displays the selected package, selected backup option, and any changed constants or scheduled events.

    2. Review this summary, and then click Deploy Now.