Identity Cloud

Configure placeholders to use with ESVs

Identity Cloud lets you reference ESVs from configuration placeholders. This lets you use different configuration values for the development, staging, and production environments at runtime.

For example, suppose you wanted to set a different email sender for each environment. You would set the configuration value of the email sender to an ESV with different values in each environment; for example, dev-mycompany@example.com (development), staging-mycompany@example.com (staging), and mycompany@example.com (production). Then, you would insert the ESV configuration placeholder into your configuration instead of a literal value.

Configuration placeholders that reference an undefined ESV cause promotions to fail. Refer to Configuration integrity checks.

Set up configuration placeholders to reference an ESV

  1. In your development environment:

    1. Create the ESV using one of the following:

    2. Restart Identity Cloud services.

    3. Insert the ESV configuration placeholder into your configuration. Refer to:

  2. In your staging environment:

    1. Repeat step 1a for your staging environment. Ensure the ESV name is the same as you set up in the development environment.

    2. Run a promotion to move the configuration change from your development environment to your staging environment. Refer to:

  3. In your production environment:

    1. Repeat step 1a for your production environment. Ensure the ESV name is the same as you set up in the development environment.

    2. Run a further promotion to move the configuration change from your staging environment to your production environment.

If you want to add more ESVs later, repeat the steps above and use a further series of promotions.

Configuration placeholders can only be inserted into static configuration. Refer to the promotion FAQs for more information on what static configuration is, and which areas of configuration are classified as static.

Update an ESV referenced by a configuration placeholder

  1. Update the ESV using one of the following:

  2. Next, Restart Identity Cloud services.

Restart Identity Cloud services

If you update an ESV referenced by a configuration placeholder, you also need to restart Identity Cloud services. This substitutes the updated secret or variable into the corresponding configuration placeholder.

  1. Restart Identity Cloud services using one of the following:

Delete an ESV referenced by a configuration placeholder

  1. Remove the ESV configuration placeholder from your configuration in the development environment. Refer to:

  2. Run a promotion to move the configuration change from the development environment to the staging environment. Refer to:

  3. Run a further promotion to move the configuration change from the staging environment to the production environment.

  4. Delete the ESV in each of the development, staging, and production environments using one of the following:

Define and promote an ESV

An example of using a variable would be to define a URL that a user is redirected to after logging in. In each environment, the URL would need a different value; for example, dev-www.example.com (development), staging-www.example.com (staging), and www.example.com (production).

To define and promote the variable:

  1. Decide on a variable name; for example, esv-myurl. Refer to ESV naming.

  2. Set an ESV variable in each of the development, staging, and production environments. To do this, choose one of the following options:

  3. Insert the ESV configuration placeholder into your configuration in the development environment. For the example variable esv-myurl from step 1, the placeholder would be called &{esv.myurl}. Refer to:

    Configuration placeholders can only be inserted into static configuration. Refer to the promotion FAQs for more information on what static configuration is, and which areas of configuration are classified as static.
  4. Run a promotion to move the configuration change from the development environment to the staging environment. Refer to:

  5. Run a promotion to move the configuration change from the staging environment to the production environment.

The following illustration demonstrates the process:

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