Import and export scenarios

In the following sections, we can examine these points a bit more closely.

Controlling change in a live environment

Once you have developed your ICS services and they are running as desired, you are going to quickly reach a point where you will want to separate development and testing from your running integrations, so that any additions or changes do not disrupt or create inconsistencies in the target systems you have integrated. The worst thing would be to need to resolve data consistency and integrity issues in your target solutions, as lots of small changes will mean a lot of inconsistency in a live environment. So, separating your test and development from a live setup means no consistency issues, but raises the question of how we move our integrations from development to production? This is where import and export comes into play.

Configuration management

This scenario leads neatly onto the consideration of using a configuration management repository. As you...