Quick start: Drag-and-drop promotion

Promote product apps between two environments

In this first quick start on promotions, we’ll see how to promote products using the intuitive drag-and-drop functionality in the Environments dashboard.

This quick, visual method allows you to manually move applications between two environments in just a few steps.

Use this method when you want to:

• Quickly test changes in a different environment
• Manually promote a product version for validation or further deployment

Before you begin

If you haven’t done so already, create:

• Environments
• Products
• Applications

Promote product applications through drag-and-drop

1. From the sidebar, select Environments.
   • The demo-trioapp product is displayed in the dev, qa, and prod environments.
   • Note the release versions for the product in each environment.
     For example, the version in dev is different from those in qa and prod, indicating changes to the application that have not yet been deployed to all environments.

2. To view the applications linked to the product demo-trioapp in each environment, mouse over the product name in each of the environments.

3. Drag and drop the application into the desired target environment.
   For the quick start, we’ll promote demo-trioapp by dragging demo-trioapp-dev from dev and dropping it into demo-trioapp in the qa environment.

4. Click Commit to commit the changes.
   The Commit Changes page displays details about the promotion, including the action used, the files impacted, and the properties being updated.

5. Review the changes carefully and click Promote.
6. Continue with View release created for product.

View release created for product

After committing the changes, the promotion mechanism automatically creates a release for the product, demo-trioapp in our case. Here you can monitor how the promotion is orchestrated between the environments dev and qa.

• Click View Release Details to go to the release view and monitor the release as it progresses between the dev and qa environments.

When the release completes execution, go to Product > Releases to see the information and status for the release.

What’s next

Now that you’ve learned how to promote a product using the drag-and-drop method, we’ll explore more advanced promotion scenarios.
The next quick start demonstrates how to orchestrate a multi-environment promotion through a Promotion Flow, enabling you to automate and streamline deployments across more than two environments.

Quick start: Multi-environment sequential promotion