Scheduling a pipeline and/or a release run

Imagine you want to trigger a release or a pipeline in frequent intervals say every hour, every day at a particular hour, or at a particular day in a week, Instead of going and doing it manually, users can create a Schedule for the particular use case they want according to their requirements for a release or a pipeline.

Steps to create a schedule for a release

Pre-requisites:

• An Active cluster

• A Release created from Release Templates

Steps:

1. Once you log in to Ozone, select Triggers on the left-side bar.

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3. After clicking on triggers a modal appears to select between Schedules and Webhooks Click on Schedules to get the schedules page

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5. After this users can click on the Create Schedule button to open the modal window for schedule creation

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7. This will open the modal window for schedule creation

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9. Users are provided options to select the frequency, Hourly - The release/pipeline will be triggered every hour, you need to enter the minutes on when to trigger the release/pipeline

   Daily - Release/Pipeline will be triggered daily, you just need to enter the hours and minutes when they want to trigger the Release and Pipeline

   Weekly - You can select the day of the week and the time on that particular day when they want to trigger the Release or Pipeline. You need to select the day and enter the hours and minutes

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11. Once the frequency is selected you can select the Resource type as Release

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12. After selecting the Resource type as Release, an option will be provided to select the release template to choose the release template as desired. After all the details are entered and the release is selected, users can click on map parameters to move to the second step of schedule creation

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13. Once all the details are entered, users can click on Save to create the schedule.

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14. Once the Schedule has been successfully created it will be shown in the form of a tabular list, in the below way. In the table list view, you can see that the next run is visible and when next will the release will be triggered.

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    Users can click on the edit button, to edit the schedules Users can click on the toggle button, to enable/disable schedules Users can click on the delete button, to delete the schedules.

Steps to create a schedule for a pipeline

Pre-requisites:

• An Active cluster

• Microservice

• Select the same environment in which the cluster has been created

Steps:

1. Follow the same steps as schedule creation for release, i.e. from step 1 - to step 6

2. Once this is done, select the resource type as pipeline

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3. Now select the details for the following- - Select the pipeline name, i.e. the pipeline that needs to be triggered - Next, select the environment, the environment should be the same in which the cluster has been created - Select the microservice - Select the cluster Once all these details are entered click on the map parameters to move to the next step

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4. The next step is to map parameters for the particular pipeline and enter the details as requested in the input run parameters. Once all the details have been entered, click on Save to create the schedule. The schedule created will be shown in the table list view as it was shown above while creating a release schedule.

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