Deploying Interfaces

IguanaX leverages git repositories and collections to deploy components across environments - ie. deploy interfaces between development, test, and production Iguana instances.

In IguanaX, its important to understand How Components use Git.

Ensure each component is linked to a remote git repository using the Repository Management Screen.

Repository management and organization: You can have multiple Iguana instances connect and push updates to the same component repositories to streamline development and deployment.

In each Iguana environment, have your components use their same dedicated repository. Then you can easily update and change components to run from new commits.

Collections provide a catalogue of components and libraries, allowing you to easily add template components and libraries to your Iguana instances and interface projects. Collections store the component or library name, description, and Translator project repository.

By adding components that are ready for promotion to a collection, they become available to any IguanaX instance with that collection and can quickly be added to target Iguana instances. See how to Add Components to Collections.

Migrating Tags: Tags added to a component’s description will automatically be populated in the component’s Tag field on import.

The following steps outline the strategy and best practices for deploying components:

When you commit changes in the Translator, these are committed locally within your working directory. You can then push the changes to the linked upstream git repository. See Commit and Push Changes to Git.

Commit messages: Use prefixes in your commit messages to label commits with something explanatory. For example “TEST - v1 component” shows its ready for promotion to the Test environment.

If there are new commits in the repository that you haven't yet incorporated into your project, before pushing your changes, you will need to pull in and merge the latest commit to ensure your work is fully up to date and you are collaborating on an interface safely.

All changes can be tracked externally in your git service.

Make sure the appropriate collection is added to the target Iguana instance. Then using select the components you want to add to the target Iguana instance.

On the component card, you can view the commit to check the component code is what is expected before running.

Configure the component:

Custom fields. Add implementation specific configurations. Only the custom field default values are stored in the git repository, therefore any values without a default will need to be manually entered on the component card. This ensures that sensitive data stays local and you don’t overwrite environment configurations (e.g., if your dev and prod point to the same repository, you won’t push your dev database credentials to the prod component).
Connections. You can edit connections on the dashboard or can select a linear connection when adding the components to Iguana.