Clone Platform Blueprints/Models

This guide covers the basics of creating a new Platform Blueprint and Platform Model based off an existing one.

Use Case

The use case is the user wants to create a parallel Oracle FMW domain because an Oracle Database 19c upgrade is required resulting in another upgrade of FMW 12.2.1.4.0.

Infrastructure Provider

1. Go to Infrastructure > Infrastructure Providers

2. Create the necessary provider and/or hosts. For example, if you are:

   1. Reusing existing infrastructure then no action is required.

   2. Using new infrastructure then select your provider (or create a new provider) and create new hosts IMPORTANT

3. There is a known bug with Compute Logical Definition where only OL6 should be selected. If any other option is selected you will not see the hosts when creating a new Platform Model.

4. There is no impact to selecting OL6. This option is only for visual purposes and features based off this were not yet implemented in Myst.

Platform Blueprint

Creating a new Blueprint from a Template

1. Go to Platform Blueprints and click your blueprint

2. Click Actions > Save as Template
3. Fill in the new template information

Updating the Template

1. Go to Platform Templates and click your template

2. Here you can update your template as required. For example, you can update:

   1. Middleware Settings > Catalog Version

   2. Middleware Settings > Home Directory

   3. WebLogic Domain Configuration > Name

3. (OPTIONAL) To permanently disable editing on the template you can click Actions > Publish

Create a Blueprint

1. Go to Platform Templates > Actions > Generate Blueprint
2. Fill in the new blueprint information and click Next and Finish

3. You are taken directly to the blueprint where you can Save & Commit the initial revision

4. You are now ready to create a model from the blueprint

Platform Model

Create a Model

1. Click Platform Model >
2. Select the platform blueprint created earlier

3. Fill in the new model information and click until you finally reach the button
4. Verify your model and edit as required and

Editing & Comparisons Tips

Due to the nature of 'environment specific' Platform Models, the clone feature in Myst does not yet exist. If your goal is to create a like-for-like model then here are some tips to compare the Myst properties.

1. Click Platform Model and select your model

2. Click Actions > View Report
3. Scroll down to Properties section

4. Highlight and copy the property(s)/value(s) into your clipboard
5. Paste into a tool such as Microsoft Excel
6. In Excel go to Save As and select CSV type
7. Repeat for the other environment you want to compare

8. Finally, use a comparison tool to compare the two files
9. Fix accordingly.

10. Update all passwords as required, especially if they were environment specific credentials.

NOTE: The Platform Blueprint was cloned so in theory most of the changes should be within the Platform Model.

Rest API Tip

If you have experience with Rest APIs then you can use that to post/put/get/etc via the Myst REST API. We have found a tool such as Postman is quite helpful.

Release Pipeline

Updating Application Source Code

In upgrade use cases you may find OSB servers only allow deployments of applications built on the same version (eg. 12.2.1.4.0). Here is a guide to maintaining two application versions a. An application version for the old environment b. An application version for the new environment

1. Build your new application source code as usual but in the pom.xml use a different major version (eg. 2.0)

    <groupId>com.acme</groupId>
    <artifactId>Stock-mds</artifactId>
    <version>2.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

2. Use your previous version (eg. 1.0) for your old environment's source code.

3. In the next section we handle versioning via the Application Blueprint

Create the Application Blueprint

1. Go to Release Management > Application Blueprints

2. Select an existing Application Blueprint that is deployed to your environment

3. Click the drop down and click Clone and enter a new version (eg. 2.0.0)
4. For the newly built application(s) source code, select the new version
5. Click

Create the Release Pipeline

1. Go to Release Management > Pipelines

2. Click
3. Fill in and create the Release Pipeline information (stream/stages/etc) as per the standard process.

4. When adding a Stream, make sure to select the Platform Blueprint created earlier
5. Select the Application Blueprints which are similar to the release pipeline you are cloning
6. Click
7. Select the Platform Model for each Stage
8. Tick the checkbox for Disable Version conflict validation
9. Click then return to the pipline and click

Defaulting Artifact Property Registry

It's good practice to define the Stream Model defaults in the Artifact Property Registry. This will significantly reduce the effort of filling in the Stream Model properties for your new Platform Model.

Updating Stream Model Properties

Here we update the Stream Model Properties for each new stage (environment). In Myst you can use the 'Edit Bulk' button and copy+paste from the existing stream model to the new stream model.

1. Go to Release Management > Release Pipelines and select the old pipeline

2. Click the cog icon and click Open Stream Model
3. Click button
4. Highlight all the property and values by dragging your mouse. The highlighted area becomes blue.
5. Copy the contents to the clipboard (CTRL+C)

6. Go to your new release pipeline and open the Stream Model

7. Click the first column/row and paste the clipboard (CTRL+V)
8. Scroll down and click
9. Your Release Pipeline should be ready to go assuming you have provisioned the environment.