Deployment Center is a centralized web application that simplifies the deployment, management, and maintenance of Teamcenter software across multiple environments. It also integrates with third-party automation tools, enabling administrators to manage diverse Teamcenter environments with greater efficiency.
This blog will take a closer look at the architecture of Deployment Center to examine its main components, how they interact, and how this structure supports seamless deployment and management across your enterprise systems. All core architecture components are installed by default during the Deployment Center setup to ensure a consistent and reliable foundation.
Jetty web server and the Deployment Center web application
The web server runs the Deployment Center web application, which allows access to the web application from a web browser on any machine.
H2 database
The database stores information about the Teamcenter environments registered with the Deployment Center.
HashiCorp Vault (Deployment Center Vault)
Deployment Center uses HashiCorp Vault to securely store and retrieve deployment secrets. In the installation configuration properties or upgrade configuration properties for Deployment Center, you specify:
- Online or offline retrieval of deployment secrets from the vault
- Service name and port of HashiCorp Vault
- Whether to use the vault as the certificate authority when installing the Deployment Center using HTTPS communication. Alternatively, you may purchase a certificate from a Certificate Authority (CA) or create a self-signed certificate.
Repository and the repository service
The repository stores the downloaded software kits and files needed during deployment. Deployment Center uses the repository subdirectories when it registers Teamcenter environments and displays choices for installing and updating software and applications.
You provide the repository directory location during the installation of Deployment Center. Be sure that the repository location has adequate disk space available to store all the software kits needed for your deployments.
The repository service runs automatically and monitors the repository. The repository service reports the software kits to the Deployment Center and populates the list of available software selections.
Within the repository, several subdirectories manage the software for the Deployment Center. Some important functions that are managed are software backups, the deployment scripts generated by Deployment Center, and the software kits that Deployment Center uses to build Teamcenter environments.
Administrators must manage the repository directory carefully, as it can cause severe or unrecoverable damage to the Deployment Center environment.
Learn more about Deployment Center here.