In the environment or instance where you want to import your pipeline:
Open the Cloud Data Fusion Studio page.
Click Import.
Upload the JSON file that you saved when you exported your pipeline.
Optional: You might be prompted to upgrade the version of your plugins.
Click Fix all.
If a particular plugin is not found, follow the prompts to install it from
the Hub.
Optional: If you use a custom plugin in your pipeline and you receive a
prompt in the upgrade window that the plugin was not found, you must
deploy that custom plugin first, and then import the pipeline again.
Your pipeline opens in the Studio page. To deploy your pipeline as-is,
click Deploy.
Details
A pipeline is exported in JSON format. The file includes information about
sources, sinks, and the connections between them.
It doesn't include triggers that you created after the pipeline was deployed.
To get details about those triggers, recreate them in a different environment.
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