On-prem hybrid setup
There are cases when connecting cloud hosted guide data and evergreen extensions with your production environment is not possible or desired.
Examples:
Air-gapped production (e.g. top secure defence install without internet)
Company Policy
Quality assurance process
DEV → QA → UAT → PROD
Compliance
FDA or regulatory require extensive testing with all software versions
Security
Evergreen external extension hosting prevents validation of each version
For such cases it is possible to host the web extension and data locally on-premises. The cloud solution is still used to record the guides. Guide recording is done on a lower security environment e.g. dev. The guide data and extension is then exported for self hosting. Guides are exported in JSON data format and the web extension in crx. This setup enable full control and offline still avoiding complex full stack setup, hosting and related effort.
To get started you first need to create your guides on CLOUD (lmw.technia.cloud). This requires the latest Light My Way extension that can either be installed from Chrome/Edge store https://technia.jira.com/wiki/spaces/TSD/pages/4031971409/Light+My+Way+-+Product+Documentation#Client-Installation or self-hosted https://technia.jira.com/wiki/pages/resumedraft.action?draftId=4436164619&draftShareId=dd3ddce0-b670-4835-b3cf-bcfe3eee3426.
When the guides are done you login to the Admin UI and export them by clicking on the export icon.
The exported json-file can then be provided on-premises as you choose, the only thing Light My Way needs is that the file is available on the network.
To connect the extension to the file add the url to the registry https://technia.jira.com/wiki/spaces/TSD/pages/4031971409/Light+My+Way+-+Product+Documentation#Registry-entries-using-file (e.g. hosted-guides-path: https://companyurl/path-to-file.json).
Light My Way will then load all needed data from this file and the extension can then be used without connecting to CLOUD.
