Developer Activity: Work on feature-branch
Login as Developer
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You will perform this activity as a Developer.
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Logout from Developer Hub
Click to see how to logout
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Navigate to the Settings side-menu of Developer Hub and click on the kebab menu in the Profile card
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Sign out of Red Hat Developer Hub using the Settings screen as shown.
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Logout from Gitlab
Click to see how to logout
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Click on the Profile icon, and Sign out from the dropdown.
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Login to Red Hat Developer Hub and GitLab as
dev1/{common_password}
Create a feature-branch
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Click here to access the repo https://gitlab-gitlab.{openshift_cluster_ingress_domain}/parasol/parasol-store
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Click on the (+) button as shown in the screenshot below, and click on New branch menu
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Name the branch as
my-feature-branchso as to make it easier to follow the rest of the instructions
Onboard the Feature Branch using template
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In Red Hat Developer Hub, choose the Create side-menu, and you will see the Parasol Store Development template. Click on Choose
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In Step 1: Provide Information for the sandbox deployment, enter the feature-branch name
my-feature-branchor the name you have picked for your branch.
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In Step 2: Provide database information. Keep all the fields as it is - no need to make changes. The parameters are already set based on the OpenShift Service names from the existing deployments of the application
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Click on Review, and proceed to Create
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Click on the Open component on catalog link
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Explore the Component
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Notice that under the CI tab, a pipeline is in progress
and turns green when it finishes the run successfully
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Explore the other tabs to see how Developer Hub allows a single pane of glass for the Developers' isolated/sandboxed environment
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If you are curious to view the deployment on OpenShift: click here
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Enhancing the application
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Click on the < > View Source button on the Component Overview page to access the source repository
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Switch to the my-feature-branch
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Open the
README.mdand then select Edit > Edit single file.
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For the sake of the workshop, let us just make some changes to the README file. E.g. add this text to the README file
This service store provides the core services of Parasol web-app -
Add a Commit Message Chore: Improved README file at the bottom of the page; make sure the Target Branch is
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You can now close the Gitlab browser.
View component on RHDH
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From Developer Hub, access
parasol-store-my-feature-branchcomponent from here -
Access the CI tab to view the pipeline
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Very shortly, the pipeline will be marked as Succeeded
The first pipeline was triggered when you registered using the s.w template. and the next is by git commit -
Once you are happy with the changes, you are now ready to create a merge request to the main branch.
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This is the end of the inner-loop within the isolated/sandboxed dev environment. In the next section, as a developer you will create a merge request to the main branch, to initiate the outer loop