Deploy an Environment

This action enables you to stand up a consistent, disposable environment for testing your application. It deploys and provisions a Parasoft service virtualization environment to the specified Continous Testing Platform endpoint. You can also configure the action to copy Parasoft virtual assets (PVA) and data repositories from an exisiting environment when deploying the new environment.

Usage

Add the following entry to your Github workflow YAML file with the required inputs:

uses: parasoft/deploy-environment-action@v1
with:
  ctpUrl: 'http://exampleUrl'
  ctpUsername: 'username'
  ctpPassword: ${{ secrets.password }}
  system: 'system'
  environment: 'environment'
  instance: 'instance'

Required Inputs

The following inputs are required to use this action:

Input	Description
ctpURL	Specifies the Continuous Testing Platform endpoint where the environment will be deployed.
ctpUsername	Specifies a user name for accessing the Continuous Testing Platform endpoint.
ctpPassword	Specifies a Github encrypted secret for accessing the Continuous Testing Platform endpoint. Refer to the Encrypted Secrets Documentation for details on how to create an encrypted secret.
system	Specifies the name of the system in Continous Testing Platform that contains the environment instance you want to provision.
environment	Specifies the name of the environment that contains the instances you want to provision.
instance	Specifies the environment instance you want to provision.

Optional Inputs

The following optional inputs are also supported:

Input	Description
abortOnFailure	Aborts a provisioning action on failure and marks the action as failed. Set to true to enable. Default is false.
copyToVirtualize	Replicates virtual assets in the environment to another server. Set to true to enable. Default is false.
virtServerName	Specifies the name of a target Virtualize server for replicated virtual assets. The copyToVirtualize input must be enabled.
newEnvironmentName	Specifies the name for the replicated environment. This environment can be destroyed with the destroy-environment-action when testing has been completed.
duplicateDataRepo	Duplicates the associated data repositories before provisioning. Set to true to enable. Default is false.
duplicateType	Specifies where to duplicate the data repository. You can specify the following values: default: Duplicates to the current data repository server on the specified system. target: Duplicates to a data repository server on the same host as the target Virtualize server. custom: Duplicate to a data repository server on a specified host. See reportHost.
repoHost	Specifies the host of the data repository server when duplicateType is custom.
repoPort	Specifies the port of the data repository server when duplicateType is set to target or custom.
repoUsername	Specifies the username of the data repository server when duplicateType is set to target or custom.
repoPassword	Specifies the password of the data repository server when duplicateType is set to target or custom.

Build and Test this Action Locally

1. Install the dependencies:

$ npm install

2. Build the typescript and package it for distribution:

$ npm run build && npm run package

3. Run the tests:

$ npm test

 PASS  ./index.test.js

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