About Create an Edge Delivery site in Cloud Manager

Last update: Mon Feb 24 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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The Create an Edge Delivery site feature is designed to help you automate the onboarding and deployment of Edge Delivery sites within Cloud Manager. It greatly simplifies the process by having you click a single button. That single click provisions the required infrastructure, integrates with GitHub for version control, and configures your document and asset storage in Google Drive.

This automation helps reduce the manual effort that is required to set up your initial site. It ensures seamless workflows, scalability, and improves the performance of your teams when it comes to managing content at the edge.

Key concepts

Key concepts when you create an Edge Delivery site in Cloud Manager with one click.

Key concept
Description
Automated Edge deployment
  • Users can create and configure Edge Delivery sites instantly.
  • By using Cloud Manager’s integration with CI/CD workflow, it reduces or eliminates the need for manual onboarding processes.
  • Integrated with Cloud Manager for seamless CI/CD workflows.
Integration with Cloud Manager
  • Uses Cloud Manager’s user interface to trigger the One Click Edge Delivery process.
  • Provide access to automated repository creation and deployment.
GitHub-based version control
  • Creates a GitHub repository within an organization using pre-defined boilerplate templates to standardize deployments.
  • Links with AEM Bot for content updates.
Document and asset storage integration
  • Generates a Google Drive folder for storage.
  • Installs the AEM Code Sync application on the repository, ensuring seamless synchronization and deployment.
  • Collaborators can manage documents easily.
Security and scalability
  • Ensures compliance with enterprise security standards.
  • Supports multiple Edge Delivery sites under different Cloud Manager tenants.

Create an Edge Delivery site in Cloud Manager with one click

To create an Adobe Edge Delivery site with one click, your organization must have an available Edge Delivery Services license. This license is part of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and is necessary for creating Edge Delivery Services within Cloud Manager.

In terms of permissions, you must be a member of the Business Owner role or have been granted the appropriate permissions to add or edit programs in Cloud Manager. This access level lets you manage the integration of Edge Delivery Services into your programs.

See also Introduction to Edge Delivery Services in Cloud Manager.

To create an Edge Delivery site in Cloud Manager with one click:

  1. Log into Cloud Manager at https://my.cloudmanager.adobe.com and select the appropriate program.

  2. In the upper-left corner of the page, click Show menu icon to reveal the left side menu.

  3. In the left side menu, under the Program heading, click Overview.

  4. On the Program Overview page, click the Edge Delivery tab.

  5. On the Edge Delivery page, In the Edge Delivery to-do list dialog box, in the Add Edge Delivery site group box, click Create site now.

  6. In the Create Edge Delivery site dialog box, in the Project Name text field, enter the name of your site, then click Create site now.

    A toast appears near the top-center of the screen letting you know that Edge Delivery site provisioning has started.

When site provisioning and validation are complete by Cloud Manager, the Site name (the project name you entered earlier) appears in the Edge Delivery sites list box on the Edge Delivery page. Also, a green check mark appears to the left of the repository URL.