Add new product to an existing distribution

Ways to add a new product to an existing distribution

Steps to add a new product to a distribution

dir structure:

/var/www/be/
data/  (The latest json data for the FE)      	
├── config.js
├── distributions/
│   ├── CMD-ONE
│   │   ├── 0.0.0.json
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── CMD-OS
│   │   ├── 0.0.0.json
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── UMD
│   │   ├── 1.0.0.json
│   │   └── ...
├── products/
│   ├── CMD-ONE
│   │   ├── 0.0.0/
│   │   │   └── productname.json
│   │   │   └── ...
│   ├── CMD-OS
│   │   ├── 0.0.0/
│   │   │   └── productname.json
│   │   │   └── ...
│   ├── UMD
│   │   ├── 1.0.0/
│   │   │   └── productname.json
│   │   │   └── ...
├── software-catalog.json  (Complete list of products)
├── software-distributions.json  (Complete list of distributions)
│
templates/ (All the templates needed to convert yaml to json or using json directly)
├── product.yaml
├── distribution.yaml
├── product.json
└── distribution.json

For both approaches the first step is always convert/prepare the release.json cd /var/www/be

Copy the template:
cp SW/templates/product.yaml ./release.yaml

Convert the yaml to json:
yaml2json release.yaml (this will create a release.json file in the same dir)

1st approach - using the Database (DB)

Add the data manually to the DB: Commands...

2nd approach - add the data manually to the json files

Manually add product