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Workspace DevOps Automation
Categories Deploy
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 1, 2025

Create Generic Process Step for Locking Snapshots

This request is to create a generic process that can lock a snapshot (versions and configuration) on a particular application. As a requirement for audit, all production deployments must lock their snapshot before deploying. Using an orchestration app, we would like to have a step before triggering a deployment to check if the snapshot versions and configuration is locked, and lock if they are not. Having this step will ensure all production deployments have locked snapshots, and help reduce past issues where we have seen locks triggered from the API fail.

  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Aug 26, 2025

    This idea is in development and is targeted for the 8.2.2 release coming in June of 2026.

  • Admin
    Randy Langehennig
    Jul 18, 2025

    Thank you for submitting this idea. We are creating a discussion topic and will review this with our development team soon. We will provide updates in near future.