The promotion checklist

What to change AFTER import and BEFORE activation: connections, lookups, schedules, certificates. SKIPPING ONE IS HOW TEST WRITES TO PRODUCTION. The window between import and activation is the whole of this lesson. Before activation the integration exists and does nothing; after it, it runs against whatever it is pointed at. Every correction belongs inside that window, and the order is not negotiable. CONNECTIONS FIRST, AND VERIFY EACH ONE INDIVIDUALLY. Endpoint correct for this environment, credential supplied, test connection passing. This is the item that causes the failure in the title: a connection carrying a source-environment endpoint means the promoted flow reaches back into the environment it came from. LOOKUPS SECOND. Present, and carrying THIS environment's values — which is a different check from "present", because an imported lookup arrives complete and full of test codes. CERTIFICATES THIRD. Uploaded in this instance, and not expired. They do not travel, and their…

In this module: Module 16 · Environments and promotion

1. 1What an environment means here
2. 2Export and import, mechanically
3. 3The promotion checklistFree preview
4. 4Connections do not travel
5. 5Lookups and environment-specific values
6. 6Schedules after promotion
7. 7Versioning and rollback
8. 8Automating promotion
9. 9What breaks: four promotion failures
10. 10Lab briefing · Promote, and prove it is isolated