Add Environment

Environments are the top-level organizational unit in Cloudhouse Guardian (Guardian), allowing you to organize nodes into groups that match your own infrastructure, such as development, staging, and production environments. The following topic describes how to add a new environment to your Guardian instance.

To add a new environment, complete the following steps:

  1. In the Guardian web application, navigate to the Monitored tab (Inventory > Monitored). By default, all currently monitored nodes are displayed.

  2. In the Environments drop-down menu, click the Add Environment button. The Add Environment page is then displayed.

  3. Enter the information required in each of the following fields:

    Field Description
    Name

    The display name for the environment. For example, 'UAT', 'PROD', or 'UK'.
    Short Description (Optional)

    Option to add a short description for the environment, to describe the organizational purpose of the environment. For example, 'Environment for all nodes that are in UAT. Any nodes that are updated to PROD should be moved to the corresponding environment.'
    Node Rules (Optional)

    Option to use regular expressions to set a rule, or rules, for the environment to automatically add nodes that meet the specified criteria (node name) to the node group. For more information, see Node Rules.

    Tip: Cloudhouse advises that each environment in your Guardian instance has a set of node rules that automatically assign nodes to the corresponding environment. This is the easiest method of organizing your node set.
  4. Once complete, click the Create Environment button to save your changes and create the environment.

If successful, a confirmation message is displayed and the new environment is created and displayed. Then, you can begin organizing nodes into your environment. See Environments for more information.

Note: If you added node rules, Guardian will automatically start adding nodes that match the regular expression patterns to your environment, if they are assigned to the 'Default' environment and not another custom environment.