Deploy from Development to Production Environment

RoseZhou2

Hello,

We have two ArcGIS Enterprise 10.8.1 environment: development and production. I have built an app using ArcGIS Experience Builder Developer Edition in our development environment. Next I need to deploy the app to our production environment. What's the best way to do this? I have published the map services using the same names, created web maps  etc in both environment.

Thanks

Rose

 

LongDinh

Hi @RoseZhou2 ,

This may require a bit programming if you wish to repeat and scale your deployment processes. Otherwise, the processes can be done manually through a mix of portal interfaces, ago-assistant and the portal's /arcgis/sharing/rest apis.

You will need to be logged in as a named user, the owner of the item and have administrative privileges.

Note that the itemId of each item in each environment will be different. The goal of this process is remap your applications's:

1. maps itemids, 
2. services urls, and
3. other development targets to production(e.g. icon urls, widgets urls...etc) 

Such that  your application is targeting your production item ids.

Steps to Extract your Development and Production Web Apps, Web Maps, and Feature Layers:

1. For each item in development, get the item data and save as a JSON file from https://{portalUrl}/arcgis/sharing/rest/content/items/{itemId}/data. See: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/users-groups-and-items/item-data.htm 

2. For the Web Map, and Feature Layers in production, get the item data using the same method above. Note the itemIds and urls will be different.

The next step should be to prepare a production version of your application by remapping your development application item's data to the production targets (e.g. remap itemIds and urls to production values).

Add a Default and Update Application in Production:

1. Once you have completed remapping your application's data, you can create an Application (as a placeholder) in Portal manually or using the API at https://{portalUrl}/arcgis/sharing/rest/content/users/[userName]/addItem. The default configuration can be found at https://{portalUrl}/arcgis/apps/webappbuilder/stemapp/predefined-apps/default/config.json See: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/users-groups-and-items/add-item.htm 

2. Update the item using AGO-assistant or using the API at  https://{portalUrl}/arcgis//content/users/[userName]/items/[itemID]/update. You should set the text parameter as the new production data See: https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/users-groups-and-items/update-item.htm 

The same process can be done to apply the item's itemData (e.g. Metadata - summary, description tags etc.) It is slightly easier for Map Services with the arcpy/arcgis Python APIs if you wish to automate.

Hopefully this provides some insights to consistent in regard to portal deployment processes.