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- Docs Home
- Getting started
- XL Release
- Overview
- Installation
- Get started with XL Release
- Manage your installation
- Model your releases
- Release your software
- Release overview
- Create and start releases
- Configure release properties
- Schedule releases
- Start a release from an archived release
- Start a release from a template
- Start a release from another release
- Create a release from a Git repository
- Add a phase to a release or template
- Add a task to a phase in a release or template
- Import a release template
- Trigger releases
- Work with running releases
- Work with plugins
- Using reports
- Customize XL Release
- API and scripting overview
- Create custom task types
- Create custom configuration types
- Create custom trigger types
- Extend the XL Release GUI
- Declare custom REST endpoints
- Create custom tiles
- Create custom task types
- Create custom configuration types
- Using scheduling in scripts to connect to long running jobs
- Implement a custom failure handler
- Listen to XL Release events
- Configuration settings
- Release manuals
- XL Deploy
- Overview
- Installation
- Get started with XL Deploy
- Manage your installation
- Logging
- Start XL Deploy
- Shut down XL Deploy
- Back up XL Deploy
- Upgrade XL Deploy
- The XL Deploy repository
- Configure the repository
- Configure XL Deploy to fetch artifacts from a Maven repository
- Manage security
- Manage system settings
- XL Deploy configuration files
- Configure failover for XL Deploy
- High availability with master-worker setup
- Add, start, and use workers
- Configure active/hot-standby mode
- Configure the task execution engine
- Troubleshoot the Jackrabbit JCR repository
- Configure XL Deploy client settings
- Enable XL Deploy maintenance mode
- Update the XL Deploy digital certificate
- The XL Deploy work directory
- Reclaim disk space on an XL Deploy server
- Hide internal XL Deploy server errors
- Automatically purge packages according to a user-defined policy
- Automatically purge the task archive according to a user-defined policy
- Specify file encoding on the XL Deploy server
- Automatically archive tasks according to a user-defined policy
- Best practices for maintaining XebiaLabs tools
- Connect to your infrastructure
- Set up applications and environments
- Prepare your application for XL Deploy
- Create a deployment package
- Define application dependencies
- Configure an environment
- Using placeholders and dictionaries
- Working with deployment packages
- Preparing your application for XL Deploy
- Understanding deployables and deployeds
- XL Deploy manifest format
- Deprecated XL Deploy manifest format
- Using the XL Deploy Manifest Editor
- Understanding archives and folders in XL Deploy
- Add an externally stored artifact to a package
- Extend the external artifact storage feature
- Add a package to XL Deploy
- Export a deployment package
- XL Deploy for developers
- Tips and tricks for deployment packages
- Deploy an application
- Deployment overview
- Understanding the XL Deploy planning phase
- Steps and step lists in XL Deploy
- Understanding tasks in XL Deploy
- Deploy an application
- Use tags to configure deployments
- Preview the deployment plan
- Use orchestration
- Working with deployments
- Stopping, aborting, or canceling a deployment
- Schedule a deployment
- Update a deployed application
- Staging artifacts in XL Deploy
- Monitor and reassign deployment tasks
- Make previously deployed property values available in a PowerShell script
- Undeploy an application or deprovision an environment
- Perform canary deployments
- Perform dark launch deployments
- Perform hot deployments
- Deploying an externally stored artifact using the XL Deploy CLI
- Schedule or reschedule a task
- Using the deployment pipeline view
- Deploy to remote datacenters
- Get started with provisioning
- Introduction to the release dashboard
- Work with the CLI
- Work with plugins
- Create an XL Deploy plugin
- Base plugins and the deployed object
- Implement custom XL Deploy plugpoints
- Add a checkpoint to a custom plugin
- Step options for the Generic, PowerShell, and Python plugins
- Sample Java-based XL Deploy plugin
- XL Deploy plugin tutorial
- Standard plugins
- Middleware plugins
- Apache Tomcat
- BizTalk
- F5 BIG-IP
- GlassFish
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
- IBM WebSphere Process Server
- IBM WebSphere Liberty Profile Server
- IBM WebSphere MQ
- JBoss Application Server 5 and 6
- JBoss Application Server 7 and up
- Microsoft Internet Information Services
- Microsoft Windows
- NetScaler
- Oracle Service Bus
- Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture
- Oracle WebLogic Application Server
- Provisioning plugins
- Container platform plugins
- Tools
- Community plugins
- Using control tasks
- Using the explorer
- Using XL Deploy reports
- Customize XL Deploy
- Release manuals
- DevOps as Code
- Get started with DevOps as Code
- Install the XL CLI
- XL CLI command reference
- Work with the YAML format
- YAML snippets reference
- Manage values in DevOps as Code
- Track progress using XL CLI output
- Manage risk profiles
- Manage XL Deploy permissions in YAML
- Manage XL Release permissions in YAML
- Manage XL Release folder permissions in YAML
- Tutorial: Managing an XL Release template as code
- Blueprints
- API and CI references
- Plugins
- XL Release plugins
- XL Deploy plugins
- Standard plugins
- Middleware plugins
- Apache Tomcat
- BizTalk
- F5 BIG-IP
- GlassFish
- IBM WebSphere Application Server
- IBM WebSphere Process Server
- IBM WebSphere Liberty Profile Server
- IBM WebSphere MQ
- JBoss Application Server 5 and 6
- JBoss Application Server 7 and up
- Microsoft Internet Information Services
- Microsoft Windows
- NetScaler
- Oracle Service Bus
- Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture
- Oracle WebLogic Application Server
- Provisioning plugins
- Container platform plugins
- Tools
- Community plugins
- Videos
- Community
- Fix Trackers
- Archive
XL Deploy 5.5.x documentation
Can't find what you need? We've moved much of our documentation to topics, to make it easier to browse and search. You can find the topics here.
Product reference documentation
- Release Manual
- Steps Reference
- UDM CI Reference
- Provisioning CI Reference
- REST API Reference
- Jython API Reference
- UDM API Javadoc
- XL Deploy Engine API Javadoc
- XL Deploy Engine SPI Javadoc
- XL Endpoints API Javadoc
- XL Deploy satellite module CI reference
Plugin reference documentation
Standard plugins
- Command plugin
- Database plugin
- File plugin
- Generic Model plugin
- JEE plugin
- PowerShell plugin
- Python plugin
- Remoting plugin
- Webserver plugin
- Trigger plugin
Java middleware plugins
- JBoss Application Server 5 and 6 plugin
- JBoss Application Server 7 and up plugin
- Oracle Service Bus plugin
- Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) plugin
- WebLogic Application Server plugin
- WebSphere Application Server plugin
- WebSphere Process Server plugin
- WebSphere Liberty Profile Server plugin
- Tomcat plugin
- GlassFish plugin
.NET middleware plugins
Other middleware plugins
- F5 BIG-IP plugin
- Database plugin (DB2, MS SQL, MySQL, Oracle)
- Webserver plugin (Apache HTTP server)
- WebSphere MQ plugin
- NetScaler plugin
- DataPower plugin
Tools
- XL Deploy plugin for Maven
- XL Deploy plugin for Jenkins
- XL Deploy plugin for Bamboo
- Puppet plugin for XL Deploy
- Chef plugin for XL Deploy
- Docker plugin for XL Deploy
- XL Deploy plugin for Team Foundation Server
- XL Deploy plugin for Team Foundation Server 2015
Provisioning plugins
XL Scale
Community plugins
For information about XL Deploy community plugins, refer to the Community page.