App Lifecycle Management with

WSO2 App Manager for

Hassle-Free Onboarding

Technical Lead

Rushmin Fernando

WSO2 App Manager

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Publish

Subscribe / Install

The Big Picture

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Lifecycle management ?

Created

Published

Publish

Publisher

ActionState Permissions

Legend

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Submit for review

initial

created

in-review

approved

rejected

publishedunpublished

deprecated

retired

Create

Submit for review Reject

Approve

Publish

Unpublish Deprecate

Retire

Retire

App Manager’s way of doing it

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Re-cycle

Re-publish

Demo

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Meet the team

Martin Developer

Tim Publisher

Beth User

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initial createdCreate

It begins … Martin creates an app

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Created state

Attributes

● A playground for the developer

Available actions

●

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Submit for review

initial createdCreate

Submit for review in-review

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Submits for review ...

In-review state

Available actions

●

●

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Reject

Approve

initial createdCreate

Submit for review

in-review rejected

Reject

Submit for review

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App gets rejected :-(

Rejected state

Attributes

● Developer can try again

Available actions

●

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Submit for review

initial createdCreate

Submit for review

rejectedApprove

Reject

approved

Submit for review

in-review

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Re-submission works :-)

Approved state

Attributes

● About to publish

Available actions

●

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Publish

initial createdCreate

Submit for review

rejectedApprove

Reject

approved

published

Publish

Submit for review

in-review

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App is live !

Published state

Attributes

● Users can subscribe

● Developer can’t do further changes

Available actions

●

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Publish

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Should it stay live anymore ?

initial createdCreate

Submit for review

rejectedApprove

Reject

approved

published

deprecatedunpublishedPublish

Unpublish Deprecate

in-review

Submit for review

Unpublished state

Attributes

● Not visible in the store

● Subscribed users can’t access the app

● Can be re-published

Available actions

●

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Retire

Deprecated state

Attributes

● Not visible in the store

● Subscribed users can access the app

● Can’t be re-published

Available actions

●

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Retire

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We will miss you ;-(Submit for review

initial

created

in-review

approved

rejected

publishedunpublished

deprecated

retired

Create

Submit for review Reject

Approve

Publish

Unpublish Deprecate

Retire

Retire

Re-cycle

Re-publish

Retired state

Attributes

● End of the life cycle

Available actions

● None

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What can go wrong if there is no lifecycle management ?

● Martin won’t be able to maintain a draft version until the app is ready to be reviewed

● Tim won’t be able to govern the quality of the published apps

● Martin might accidently edit a published app

● Beth might subscribe to an app which is not meant to be subscribed anymore

● Tim won’t be able to gracefully take his app down when the time comes

Not happy with the existing lifecycle management process ?

Extend !

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Extend the approval workflow

/_system/governance/appmgt/applicationdata/workflow-extensions.xml

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org.wso2.carbon.governance.registry.extensions.interfaces.Execution

Extend the life cycle transition

Carbon console => Extensions => Configure => Lifecycles

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Thank you !