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About Application Recipes

Application recipes are used to define how you want entire applications to be deployed. In today’s software environment, applications are networks of code, artifacts, infrastructure, services, and secrets that need to be deployed together. Tempest recipes allow you to easily define and deploy these applications.

Application recipes are as simple or complex as you need them to be. For example, you can use Tempest to quickly add ephemeral environments to your existing applications that are deployed to static environments outside of Tempest.

Application recipes are configured in your Tempest web console and the resources you can configure are based on the the your Tempest first-party apps and your own custom Private Apps.

Application recipe configuration using the lifecycle display

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Features

Application recipes differ from workflow recipes in a few key ways. Application recipes:

  • Are tightly integrated with your Git provider
    • Git-based deployments
    • Git commit and user information display on your project page
  • Support the creation of two types of environments: Dedicated and Preview
  • Support adding environment variables, secrets, certificates, and private keys

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Git Provider Integration

Integration with your Git provider is how Tempest is able to build and deploy your application code.

Tempest currently only supports GitHub as an application recipe Git provider, but we’re already working on adding GitLab and Microsoft Azure Repos support. If you need these providers, or another Git provider, please contact us and we’d be happy to help you out.

By connecting Tempest and your Git provider, you can set up your recipe to provision the resources in your branches based on Git events:

  • For dedicated environments, you can set a target branch. These branches will deploy when a new commit is pushed to the branch.
  • For preview environments, you can set configure deployments to trigger based on new branches and pull requests.

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