The SimpleOne system allows exporting and importing configuration packs to keep unrelated instances synchronized.
Concept
In brief, the VCS configuration pack conception can be defined as an ability to transfer data from one instance to another, in an automatic or semi-automatic way. It is intended for application version control. Configuration packs help to automate transfer data and configurations from one instance to another, lessen the manual effort. The key point is configurations transfer, for not to reiterate it more and more on every instance, you can just import a configuration pack. So, this technology really is to make it easy and automate a migration update from one instance to another.
Application configurations are stored in configuration packs which are represented as a .SOP file containing a set of the application version records. In an OOB supply, the SimpleOne platform contains only the Simple application, but administrators (users with the admin role) can create their own Applications if needed.
There can be more than one local pack in the system, but the changes made by a single source can be written only in one localpack at every moment. You can choose the preferable localpack using the Preferences menu at the right. Please refer to the Interface#AdminPreferences article for the details.
Initially, the configuration pack should be assembled on the source instance (the instance containing source data) within the local pack related to the specific application. After that, the local pack can be exported to the configuration pack as a .SOP file.
Please note: all system configuration activities should be performed within a detached local pack (do not use default local pack for these needs).
Using configuration packs allows deploying this configuration on other instances, or, if needed, rollback versions of the specified record or some local pack as a whole to the previous state.
Technically, the configuration pack is the set of the saved records of the VCS Record (sys_vcs_record) table. Every record of this table contains JSON formatted changes and other attributes described below.
