Understand Adobe Cloud Manager
Adobe Cloud Manager provides a simple, yet robust solution that allows easy management, introspects, and self-service of AEM environments.
Cloud Manager Overview
This video series explores the key features of Cloud Manager’s for AEM including:
For a complete overview, please review the Cloud Manager User Guide.
Programs programs
Cloud Manager Programs represent sets of AEM environments supporting logical sets of business initiatives, typically corresponding to a purchased Service Level Agreement (SLA). For example, one Program may represent the AEM resources to support the global public Web sites, while another Program represents an internal Central DAM.
Cloud Manager for AEM, at the highest level, is broken into programs. A program represents a logical group of AEM instances supporting a customer initiative. A standard group of programs consists of a production environment, stage environment, and a development environment.
It is expected that the same initiative and codebase are used within a program. For example, an organization may have a program for their global websites running AEM Sites and AEM Assets and another program for their internal centralized DAM running only AEM Assets. Additional programs can be added to an organization by clicking the Add Program button. This brings up the Add Program Wizard where you can give the program a name and select the program objective. Note that licensing dictates how many programs can be provisioned per organization, and which program objectives are available.
Cloud Manager’s overview page provides a central view into a specific program. The program’s overview list environments in CI/CD pipeline and their statuses, as well as links to other supporting consoles. It also provides intelligent guidance at the top of the page recommending next actions, and at the bottom of the page, links to supplemental materials that can provide further information and support pertaining to the current state of the program.
Several configurations can be adjusted at the program level. To edit a program, click the edit program option in the program menu. The general tab allows us to change the thumbnail and description that helps Cloud Manager users to quickly identify a program. The KPI tab, or key performance indicators, has sections for any purchased AEM product that are part of the program. Here, we see KPIs for AEM Sites and AEM Assets. KPIs are configured at the program level and used by Cloud Manager’s performance tests, which are executed as part of Cloud Manager’s CI/CD pipeline. In order for the CI/CD pipeline executions to be considered successful, these KPIs must be met. -
Environments environments
Cloud Manager Environments are composed of AEM Author, AEM Publish and Dispatcher instances. Different environments support roles and can be engaged using different CI/CD Pipelines (described below). Cloud Manager environments typically have one Production environment and one Stage environment.
Reports reports
Cloud Manager Reports provide a view into the Program’s Environments and AEM instances through a set of charts that report on and track various metrics for each AEM instance.
CI/CD Production Pipeline cicd-production-pipeline
Use the CI/CD Pipeline in Adobe Cloud Manager video series provides a deep dive into the Production Pipeline execution, including exploration of failing and successful deployments.
Configuration
The CI/CD Production Pipeline configuration defines the trigger that initiates the pipeline, and parameters controlling the production deployment and performance test parameters.
Pipeline Execution
The CI/CD Production Pipeline is used to build and deploy code through Stage to the Production environment, decreasing time to value.
CI/CD Non-production Pipelines cicd-non-production-pipeline
CI/CD Non-production pipelines are broken into two categories, Code Quality pipelines, and Deployment pipelines. Code Quality pipelines all code from a Git branch to build and be evaluated against Cloud Manager’s code quality scan. Deployment pipelines support the automated deployment of code from the Git repository to any Non-production environment, meaning any provisioned AEM environment that is not Stage or Production.
Activity activity
Cloud Manager provides a consolidated view into a Program’s activity, listing all CI/CD Pipeline executions, both production and non-production, allowing visibility into the past and present activity, and any activity’s details can be reviewed.
Cloud Manager also integrates at a per-user level with Adobe Experience Cloud Notifications, providing an omnipresent view into events and actions of interest.
The Cloud Manager Program’s Activity tab provides a unified view of all the program’s pipeline actions, past and present. Each instance of a pipeline execution, production and non-production alike, show up as entries in Activity view. Clicking into the details shows the state of the pipeline execution allowing past executions to be revisited in detail or re-engaged with running pipelines.
On a per user level, Cloud Manager also integrates with the Experience Cloud notifications providing a proactive accessible view into Cloud Manager-related events and actions, such as the triggering of a pipeline, it’s failure, or successful completion from anywhere within Adobe Experience Cloud. -