Windchill+ Release Management
The following diagram explains the Windchill+ release management cycle:
The following stages are a part of the Windchill+ Release Management cycle:
1. Develop — The CCD packages containing code and configuration are developed on-premises or on a PTC hosted cloud portal virtual machine.
2. Push to Integration — Multiple developers and work streams can merge their changes and perform integration testing.
3. Push to QA — Once tested and validated, changes can be pushed to the QA environment for User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
4. Release to Production — Once changes are validated and approved, the CCD package can be promoted to the production environment.
Key Points
• A seven day retention period is allowed post deployment for Integration environments and a 30 day period for QA, during which the customer is expected to approve or reject the deployment.
• After this retention period, to conserve SaaS resources, the environments are automatically restored to that environment’s pre-deployment state.
• A full backup is performed before each deployment for restore purposes. After an approved deployment to production, there is an automatic rehost to the lower environments.