Wouldn’t it’s good when you might choose an utility from VMware Market and deploy it in your Digital Knowledge Heart(VDC) utilizing the VMware Cloud Director(VCD) portal?
I’ve excellent news for you.
The wait is over!
Now it’s very a lot doable with VMware Cloud Director 10 .5 Content material Hub.
VMware Cloud Director 10.5 had just lately been launched, bundled with a few of the enhancements and options like Content material Hub, assist for NSX Federations, IP House Migration Wizard, and so on. To know extra about these options intimately, please discuss with the Launch notes and the VMware Documentation.
This weblog is meant to offer you an outline of the deployment of an utility from Market and use circumstances. For extra particulars, please discuss with the weblog right here.
What’s Content material Hub?
Let’s first perceive what Content material Hub is and the way it works.
Content material Hub is a characteristic to current a unified interface in VMware Cloud Director to eat VM and container-based content material.
It merges the present VMware Cloud Director Catalog and App Launchpad right into a unified expertise for tenants and suppliers. Content material Hub doesn’t require the set up of any extra elements.
With Content material Hub, it’s now doable to combine exterior content material sources akin to VMware Market and different Helm chart Repositories into VCD.
Content material could be imported from these built-in exterior sources into VCD catalogs after which could be consumed and customers can use an application-focused interface to visualise and eat catalog content material.
Catalog gadgets can now be seen as Utility Photos the place application-specific particulars akin to utility title, utility model, utility emblem, screenshots and extra data wanted to eat an utility are seen.
Customers can nonetheless see the catalog gadgets as vApp Templates (with Digital Machines beneath) and Media gadgets.
After the improve to VCD 10.5, all current catalog gadgets (vApp Templates and Media) could be seen as Utility Photos. Customers can edit the applying title and variations of such auto-generated Utility Photos for his or her current vApp Templates and Media gadgets.
Yow will discover the small print concerning the Utility from Content material Hub:
What’s an Utility Picture?
Utility photos include the applying Particular information akin to Utility Title, UI, Supply and documentation concerning the Utility.
Utility photos symbolize all of the gadgets that VCD retailer in its catalog.
Utility Photos in UI:
Integration with Market
To combine Market with VMware Cloud Director, a Cloud Supplier must create a CatalogContentSource object of sort VmwareMarketplace
Cloud Supplier can create multiple CatalogContentSource objects of sort VmwareMarketplace if wanted.
The API Token ID of a Legitimate Market Token is required to entry Market and for the creation of CatalogContentSource for Market.
VCD makes use of https://gtw.market.cloud.vmware.com/api/v1 to connect with Market. The URL for the Market can be auto-populated and might’t be modified.
CatalogContentSource object created to symbolize a Market exterior supply can then be used to browse the distant contents and import particular apps right into a VCD catalog.
Process
- From the highest navigation bar, choose Content material Hub.
- From the left panel, choose VMware Market.
- Click on New.
The New VMware Market dialog opens.
- Enter the small print like Title, Description, URL and Token ID
- Click on Save
Helm Chart Content material Sort Supported In VCD Catalogs
Earlier than VCD 10.5, VCD catalogs supported solely vApp Template and ISO Media varieties. In 10.5, we now assist Helm Chart as a brand new content material sort in VCD catalogs.
Helm Chart content material consists of a TGZ file that accommodates varied recordsdata wanted to create a container App in a Kubernetes Cluster.
You possibly can add Helm Chart content material in VCD catalogs by importing the content material from exterior built-in sources.
We at present don’t enable the native add of Helm Chart content material in VCD 10.5
Integration with Helm Chart Repositories
Cloud Suppliers and tenants can create Helm Chart repository content material sources. Tenants have to have Edit the Exterior Supply in Content material Hub proper.
Password-protected Helm Chart repositories are additionally supported.
For Extra particulars about integration with the Helm Chart repository and deploying an utility, please discuss with the VMware documentation.
Process
- From the highest navigation bar, choose Content material Hub.
- From the left panel, choose Helm Chart Repository
- Click on New.
The New Helm Chart Repository dialog opens.
- Enter the small print like Title, Description, URL and Authentication Sort
- Click on Save
Please discuss with the quick demo video under to know the under matters:
- Integration with Market
- Import an utility from Market
- Deploy an utility from Market
Use Circumstances
Beneath is a abstract of a developer and supplier use case.
A developer persona sees {that a} Bitnami utility accessible in Market (choose any app) is required.
Till VCD 10.5, solely the templates accessible in VCD catalogs might be used, however now the individual can comply with these steps to rapidly have a VM-based utility up and operating:
- Determine the applying from Market by its title.
- In your tenant org (if the supplier has given Market entry to your tenant: That is accomplished by the supplier making a Market CatalogConentSource object in system org after which sharing it with a number of tenants). Go to a catalog and browse the Market from inside VCD tenant portal and choose the applying you need and import it into your catalog.
- As soon as the applying picture is obtainable in your catalog, click on on the Launch button to deploy an occasion in your VDC of selection.
I hope this was informational for you and be happy to achieve out to us for any queries.
Because of Manu Pratap Singh and Joerg Lew for the assist and collaboration on this effort.