PDM

Stand page ​

The stand page is the workplace almost every task starts from: see what is currently deployed on the environment and what state it is in, open its address, check an application version or change a setting.

Stand header ​

The header shows the stand name and the label of the project it belongs to, Uptime (the share of time the stand was available over the last period) and the current status with the time of the last check — that tells you how fresh the data in front of you is.

The Hosts panel ​

Hosts lists the addresses of the stand's services with a state badge on each one. If credentials are stored for a host, they are shown here as well.

Tabs ​

  1. Dashboard — the state of the stand: current status, availability, history.
  2. Services — applications, their versions and settings.
  3. Secrets — the stand's secrets. Not everyone sees this tab: it appears only if you are allowed to read this stand's secrets.

Dashboard ​

Answers the question “is the stand alive right now and how has it behaved lately”: current state, availability over a period, service readiness, the availability chart and a feed of status changes. A detailed walkthrough is on the Monitoring page.

Services ​

The main working tab. It shows which applications the stand is made of, which version of each one is deployed on it and what settings it has.

The version is shown in the Deployed version column, the remaining parameters of an application are in its card. The colour of the badge tells you where the value came from: blue means it is shared by all stands, orange means it is this stand's own value, green means it is your unsaved edit. How to read and change them is covered on the Stand configuration page.

Secrets ​

Secrets are the stand's environment variables holding sensitive values: passwords, tokens, access keys. Search here matches both the group name and the secret name.

By default a value is hidden and is fetched from the server only when it is shown or copied, not when the tab is opened.

Scenario: what is deployed on the stand right now ​

A typical task is “check which build is on the test stand”. Look at the Deployed version column of the Services tab: if the value has an orange badge, that is exactly what runs on the stand, otherwise the shared value from the blue badge applies.

A counter in the Changes column means the stand has unsaved edits: somebody — possibly you, last time — started changing the configuration but never applied it. Until they are applied, such edits do not reach the stand.

What refreshes on its own ​

The state of the stand updates in real time. The list of applications and their values are loaded when the tab is opened; to see the result of applied changes, open the tab again.

What's next ​

  • Stand configuration — how to change settings and versions.
  • Monitoring — how to read statuses and availability.
  • Stands — how the list of stands and the search over it work.