IFS Cloud Build Place

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IFS Cloud Build Place serves as a critical environment for managing and maintaining your IFS Cloud deployments. Build Place acts as a dedicated workspace for customizing, testing, and deploying updates to your IFS Cloud instance. It provides a safe and isolated environment to experiment with changes without affecting your production environment, which is crucial for maintaining business continuity.

Key functionalities:

  • Version Control: Build Place uses Git to allow you to manage different versions of your IFS Cloud configuration and customization’s. This enables you to track changes, revert to previous configurations if needed, and ensure version control throughout the update process.
  • Customization and Development: Within Build Place, you can tailor the IFS Cloud application to meet your specific business needs. This can involve creating custom fields, modifying workflows, or integrating with external systems.
  • Testing: Build Place provides a platform using Git branches that enable you to perform thorough testing of your customization’s and updates in temporary environments, before deploying them to your production environment. This testing helps identify and fix any potential issues before they impact your live system.
  • Deployment Management: Once testing is complete, Build Place facilitates the deployment of approved updates to your production IFS Cloud instance. This deployment process can be streamlined and automated for efficiency.

Benefits of using IFS Cloud Build Place:

  • Reduced Risk: Build Place minimizes the risk of introducing errors or disruptions to your production environment by providing a safe testing ground for updates.
  • Improved Efficiency: Streamlined version control, development, testing, and deployment processes within Build Place enhance overall efficiency in managing your IFS Cloud instance.
  • Greater Control: Build Place empowers you to manage your IFS Cloud environment according to your specific business needs and preferences.

Overall, IFS Cloud Build Place plays a vital role in ensuring a controlled and efficient update process for your IFS Cloud deployments. It offers a secure environment for customization, testing, and version control, ultimately contributing to a more stable and optimized IFS Cloud experience.

About updates

IFS Cloud offers two distinct update mechanisms to keep your system current: service updates and release updates.

Service Updates:

  • Bug fixes, security patches, and minor enhancements to existing functionalities within your current IFS Cloud version.
  • These updates are delivered every month for 24 months for a release update.
  • Applied automatically in the background without any downtime or manual intervention required on your end. This ensures your system remains up-to-date with the latest fixes and improvements.

Release Updates:

  • Introduce new features, significant functionality enhancements, and major bug fixes.
  • Occur less frequently than service updates, typically on a bi-annual basis.
  • Require a more deliberate process involving planning, testing, and deployment through IFS Cloud Build Place and Release Update Studio. This environment allows you to test the update in a safe, isolated space before deploying it to your production environment.