Deployment

This document considers the application deployment on the platform OSS. If your platform contains the BSS, deploy the application also on the BSS.

Continue your demo project from the previous step.

Deploy Application Instance

The Application Deployment document explains in details the application deployment in the platform.

1. Choose one of the following methods to prepare the APS connector image and to build the APS package:
   • The Docker based deployment is the preferable method. It prepares an image of an APS connector to install it later in a separate virtual container. Follow the Get Started demo project that provides the detailed procedure on creating an image for a Docker container and building the APS package. If you followed that demo project, you must have already the deployment environment for this method.
   • The deployment based on a shared Apache web space creates a virtual web host for every APS connector in a shared web space.
2. Follow the Deployment Process to install an APS application instance. The Get Started demo project also illustrates this process.

Create Offers

A providers can create the needed number of offers for the application instance. In this demo, let us use three offers: Silver, Gold, and Platinum.

1. In the provider control panel (PCP), open the application instance and make sure the Offers tab with the New and Refresh buttons is there.

2. Click New to start creating an offer.

3. Since offers are internal provider’s objects, the provider can assign any convinient short names for them. Let us assign the Offer Mgmt - Silver name to the first offer.

   

4. Click Save Offer.

5. Repeat the 2-4 steps to create Offer Mgmt - Gold and Offer Mgmt - Platinum offers using different OS and other properties.

Create Resource Types

In accordance with the general resource map and the resource model of this project, you should create the following resource types basing on respective resource classes to represent APS resources in subscriptions:

APS Type	Resource Class	Resource Type	Description
VPS cloud globals	Application Service Reference	VPS Cloud - Application - Offer Project	Application instance
VPS Offers / Offer Mgmt - Silver	Application Service Reference	VPS Cloud - Silver Configuration - Offer Project	VPS configuration with light power
VPS Offers / Offer Mgmt - Gold	Application Service Reference	VPS Cloud - Gold Configuration - Offer Project	VPS configuration with middle power
VPS Offers / Offer Mgmt - Platinum	Application Service Reference	VPS Cloud - Platinum Configuration - Offer Project	VPS configuration with highest power
VPS Management	Application Service	VPS Cloud - VPS Management - Offer Project	Customer management environment (context)
Virtual Private Server	Application Service	VPS Cloud - Virtual Server - Offer Project	Customer’s virtual server

Follow the steps described in the Create Resource Types section of the Generic Services project to create the resource types.

Note

Keep in mind that the VPS Management resource type must be marked as Automatically provision service. Make sure the check-box is clean for the other resources.

Now, we have all Operations Automation resource types that can be used for creating a service template in Operations Automation.

Create Service Template

Generally, the process is described in the Creating Service Template section. Follow the steps explained there to create a new service template called Cloud VPS Services - Offer Project and add all the application resources to it. Finally, it must look as follows:

If your platform contains both parts, OSS (Operations Support System) and BSS (Business Support System), you can subscribe a customer only through a service plan created in BSS.

Conclusion

You have completed the application deployment in the platform containing the OSS part.

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