Splunk Apps and distributed deployments

[camillak]

I'm trying to figure out where the app content is served from in a distributed deployment. For example, is the entirety of each app stored on every server in the deployment, or is it served from a single location? 

Specifically I have two questions - if you want to edit app dashboard or JavaScript files using a text editor, rather than the the GUI, can you do that in a distributed environment? If so where would you do that?

[richgalloway]

What sort of distributed environment?
In a simple search head/indexer set-up, make those changes on the SH then restart the SH.
In a search head cluster, make the changes on the SHC deployer and apply the bundle.

[isoutamo]

Hi

maybe this will clarify the installation to the distributed environment?

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Best-practices-for-installing-and-configuring-apps-i...

For your second question answer is yes. Actually it’s better to use some other tools like code editors with suitable add-ones. You should do this on your own dev environment and then distribute app as package(s) to the target servers.

r. Ismo