Versioning

Description

Brainboard provides a native versioning mechanism that allows you to keep track of your changed and be able to rollback/restore any specific point-in-time version.

Components of a version

When you create a version, Brainboard saves the following information:

• The architecture design.

• The version of the cloud provider selected to create the architecture.

• Variables.

• Output.

• The README file.

• The structure of the Terraform files.

• Timestamp in UTC when the version is created.

• The person who created the version.

• The commit message.

The Terraform code is automatically generated, and it is not saved as code.

Create a version

To create a version of your architecture:

1. Click on the Create new version button in the options bar:

   
2. Write a description of the version: This could the same commit message that you would write when you do a pull request. You can write multiline text, if you want to provide more details.

   
3. Click on Create version to create the new version.

   1. When you create a new version, if there are no changes between the current version and the new one, you'll receive this message:

      

List versions

To list all the versions of your infrastructure:

• Click on the Show versions button in the options bar:

  
• This will open the versions table:

  

Restore a version

To check out or restore any version, click on the button Restore of the version you want to restore:

Import notes:

• Brainboard versions are immutable snapshots of your infrastructure. You cannot delete them.

• You can checkout any version and work on it without altering the history of the versioning.

• When you clone an architecture or create a template from it, its versions will be removed.

• When you checkout a version, both the diagram and the Terraform code will be updated.

Push to git

Please refer to the page: Pull requests, for detailed information about how to do pull requests and save the generated code into git.