Best Practice to promote Webmap across environments

Question

We have two environments for ArcGIS Enterprise. One is Production and One is Staging. We usually deploy the webmap/feature layer from ArcGIS to Staging first, and then to the production. However, the item id will be different across the environments. What is the best practice to do the promotion such as that? Also can we make sure the item id will stay the same across the different environment?

simoxu · Answer

ah.. just remember @JakeSkinner  had a great post about migrating content from one environment to another, please check it out:

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-documents/migrate-content-for-arcgis-enterprise-arcgis/ta-p/1365455

TimoT · Answer

On top of what Simo mentioned, a couple of other supported options that will preserve item IDs are:

Group Export (note: workflow may differ depending on version of Enterprise)

* /export: Export Group Content | ArcGIS REST APIs | ArcGIS Developers
* Export and import group content—Portal for ArcGIS | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterprise
* Moving content across tiered ArcGIS Enterprise environments

Distributed collaborations

* Share content with collaboration groups—Portal for ArcGIS | Documentation for ArcGIS Enterprise

simoxu · Answer

It really depends on your environment architecture and the nature of the services, are they hosted or referenced? are they sharing the same geodatabase, etc.

in terms of preserving the itemid, yes you can preserve the item id when you are cloning the items.

see details here:

https://developers.arcgis.com/python/latest/api-reference/arcgis.gis.toc.html#arcgis.gis.ContentManager.clone_items