Edge Security Acceleration:Manage environments

Create an environment

1. In the ESA console, choose Websites and click the website name you want to manage.

2. In the left-side navigation pane, click Version Management. On the page that appears, click Create Environment in the Environments tab.

3. On the Create Environment page, specify an environment name in the Environment Name field, specify traffic filters in the Traffic Filter for This Environment section, and specify an initial position for the environment from the Initial Position drop-down list, and click OK.

Edit an environment

You can make a version in the environment read-only after you create the environment.

1. In the ESA console, choose Websites and click the website name you want to manage.

2. In the left-side navigation pane, choose Version Management > Environments > Edit.

3. On the Edit Environment page, modify the environment name in the Environment Name field, specify a version from the Version drop-down list, configure traffic filters in the Traffic Filter for This Environment section, or select the Read-only Environment check box.

   Note

   • If the environment becomes the first one in the environment sequence, you can directly specify the version that you want to deploy to the environment when you create the environment.

   • When you select the Read-only Environment check box, the version deployed to the environment automatically becomes a read-only version.

   • You can modify traffic filters for all environments except the production environment.

4. Click OK.

Change the version in an environment

To prevent the version in an environment from being accidentally changed, ESA allows you to change the version in the environment only by using the Promote or Roll Back process.

Promote a version to the next environment

1. In the ESA console, choose Websites and click the website name you want to manage.

2. In the left-side navigation tree, click Version Management. On the Environments tab, find the desired environment, and click Promote in the Actions column, and click OK.

   Note

   • The environment number indicates the priority level of the environment. A greater environment number indicates a higher priority level. Promoting a version moves the version from the current environment to the next environment, which has a higher priority level.

   • You can promote a version only if the next environment holds a different version from the version to promote.

Roll back to the previously deployed version

1. In the ESA console, choose Websites and click the website name you want to manage.

2. In the left-side navigation tree, choose Version Management > Environments. Find the desired environment and click Roll Back in the Actions column, and click OK.

   Note

   • If the environment does not have a previously deployed version, you cannot perform a version rollback in the environment.

   • After you perform a version rollback in an environment, you cannot perform another consecutive version rollback in the environment.

   • You can directly specify a version and deploy it to the environment with the lowest priority level.

Delete an environment

1. In the ESA console, choose Websites and click the website name you want to manage.

2. In the left-side navigation tree, choose Version Management > Environments. Find the environment to delete and click Delete in the Actions column, and click OK.

   Note

   • Before you delete an environment, make sure that no active requests are sent to the environment. ESA does not detect for active requests.

   • You cannot delete a production environment (the default environment created after version management is enabled).