Rolling back components that fail to deploy#

If an application process fails to deploy a component, you can add a rollback step to the process to reverse the deployment. In this case, you use the Replace with Last Deployed option.

For a video demonstration of rolling back components, see Rollback Scenarios in HCL™ Launch.

To roll back a component in this way, you add a step in the application process that runs if the component is not deployed. This Rollback Component step with the Replace with Last Deployed option redeploys the previously installed component version. The specified inventory still shows the new version and that the environment is noncompliant because the deployment of that version failed.

This method works best if you want to roll back a component within the same application process that attempted to deploy it. For example, you can install a component, run tests on it, and if the tests fail, roll back the component.

If the component is already installed and you want to switch to a different version, you can do one of these procedures:

Assume that version 1 of a component is deployed to an environment. You want to install version 2, but if that installation fails, you want to roll back to version 1. The application process looks like the following example. In this application process, the first step deploys the component version as usual. If that step fails, the rollback step runs with the Replace with Last Deployed option. In this case, the rollback step deploys version 1, which is the version that was in the inventory before the process started. However, the inventory is still noncompliant because you tried to deploy version 2 and failed.

A simple application process that has a rollback step; this step runs if a component deployment step fails

Parent topic: Application processes