Deployment Configuration

The platform recognizes the APS applications that contain the deployment configuration for the wizard. By a request from the platform, such application returns that configuration in the proper format.

The document explains the general structure of a deployment configuration and the methods to process the related requests.

In this document:

Methods

The built-in initialization wizard provides its service to the provider for an APS application, if the APS package meets the following requirements:

  • The root application APS type, presenting the APS application instance, implements the init-wizard APS type whose APS ID is http://odin.com/init-wizard/config/1.0. This allows the wizard to call the getInitWizardConfig method on the APS root service endpoint. The returned data must specify a set of deployment components and some default configuration parameters.

  • If an application contains an APS type for creating reference APS resources (known as service profiles or offers), then this APS type must implement the service profile APS type whose ID is
    http://aps-standard.org/types/core/profile/service/1.0.
  • If an application contains an APS type that helps the provider distribute the application services through resellers, then this APS type must implement the reseller profile APS type whose ID is
    http://aps-standard.org/types/core/profile/reseller/1.0.
  • The root application service definition must contain the getInitWizardConfig method that returns data for the wizard in the JSON format.

  • The root application service definition must contain the testConnection method that tests a connection with the cloud application and returns the 200 OK code in the case of success.

Wizard Data

The getInitWizardConfig method must return data for the wizard in the following JSON format:

{
   "configurableProperties": [<property-1>, ...], // Global app properties
   "defaults": {
      "apsVersion": <APS API version>,
      "appId": <APS application ID>,
      "apsName": <arbitrary name>,
      <OSS components>,
      <BSS components>
   }
}

The above wizard data contains the following configuration components.

  • configurableProperties is an optional list of global properties to configure. Also, all global properties declared as public are available for configuration in the APS application instance deployment process. In the following example, the apphost global property is allowed for configuration:

    "configurableProperties": ["apphost"]
    
  • In the defaults named list, the first three properties are general. Each of the other properties is optional and used to provide a list of product components by default at a certain wizard step. If the step is missed, those default components will be presented in the Summary step for review and for commitment.

  • apsVersion is the version of the APS API in accordance with the Versioning. In the following example, the APS version 2.2 is required:

    "apsVersion": "2.2"
    
  • appId is the APS ID of the application root service as specified in the corresponding APS type, for example:

    "appId": "http://aps-standard.org/samples/vpsdemo/cloud/1.0"
    
  • apsName is an arbitrary application name, for example:

    "apsName": "Cloud VPS Services"
    

The other configuration components inside the defaults list are explained in the next sections.