You can check-in the previously captured content to a source control endpoint by using VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

Prerequisites

Verify that you have added a source control endpoint to VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle. See Source Control with vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager Content Lifecycle Management for source control requirements.

Note: We support a single content check-in, with a maximum of 1000 files at a time.

Procedure

  1. On the My Services dashboard, click Content Management.
  2. Under Content, click the name of the content package to capture.
  3. Click the name of the content package to test.
  4. Click the three vertical dots to the right of the version to check in, and select Check In.
  5. Enter the Pipeline Name, and then select a content endpoint from the drop-down list.
  6. The REPOSITORY and BRANCH includes the default values.
  7. For a VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator package merge, perform the following steps.
    • Select the Include all dependencies option to include all dependencies associated with the content package in the check-in.
    • Select the Merge with delete content option to delete content files from source control that are removed from source endpoint for VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator.
  8. Add a descriptive comment in the Comment field, and click CHECK IN.

Results

Note: Adding a check-in comment is mandatory.
When checking in a VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator package, there is an optional capability to merge with an existing VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator package that exists in the source control. This ensures that all files that are captured are checked into the path of the selected package (ultimately merged). If you do not see the package, then Select the Source Control Endpoint > Orchestrator-Package type, refresh the cache and check- in to view the VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator package in which it needs to be merged. You have the following new features added when you check in a VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator package:
  • You can merge a custom VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator package from an endpoint to an uber package version in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.
  • The ability to merge a custom VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator package directly to an uber package in GitLab.
  • You can release a subset of contents from an VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator package while deploying to an endpoint.
  • As part of the dependency management, you can remove dependency from a content version.
For a VMware Aria Automation content check-in, you can merge directly on GitLab. You can check out without dependency or check out with dependency, where you can perform the following:
  • You can remove the package dependency from the latest version. For example, if you have performed a VMware Aria Automation content check in with dependency and enabled the option to merge the dependent VMware Aria Automation Orchestrator package to an uber package directly on GitLab. When you check-out the same VMware Aria Automation content with dependency from a source control.
If a code review is disabled on the source control branch, the content is auto merged.

What to do next

If a code review is enabled on the source control branch, you or another code reviewer must check the content in to GitLab manually after the code review is complete. After you check the content into GitLab, capture the latest content version from the source control server in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle.

If you are continuing to develop on your content endpoint, capture the latest content version from source control and deploy it to your development content endpoint. This updates the content endpoint so that the content is in sync with the source control and subsequent check-ins are valid.

You can view the check in status in the Activity Log.