Deployment migrations

Deployment migrations involve creating new instances with the same version and initial configuration as existing instances. This is typically done in the context of maintaining development, test and production Bravura Security Fabric servers. This is a recommended best practice.

The production server provides reliable services to users while new configurations are developed and tested.

The test server is a replica of the production server. The test server allows configuration changes to be tested without interrupting or affecting the operation of the production server. Once testing is completed, the tested configuration parameter changes need to be migrated to the production server.

The development server provides a facility to experiment with new features, targets, versions, and so on, without affecting the test or production servers. Migration from development to test is performed when the configuration changes have passed initial testing on the development server.

If you currently do not have a development or testing version of your production instance, it is highly recommended that you set up one prior to starting any migration.