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Providing Service Blueprints to
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You deliver on-demand services to users by creating catalog items and actions, then carefully controlling
who can request those services by using entitlements and approvals.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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Designing Blueprints
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Building Your Design Library
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Working with Blueprints Programmatically
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Assembling Composite Blueprints
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Customizing Blueprint Request Forms
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Managing the Service Catalog
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Managing Deployed Catalog Items
Designing Blueprints
Blueprint architects build Software components, machine blueprints, and custom XaaS blueprints and
assemble those components into the blueprints that define the items users request from the catalog. The
catalog can display a default request form, or you can create a custom form for each published blueprint.
You can create and publish blueprints for a single machine, or a single custom XaaS blueprint, but you
can also combine machine components and XaaS blueprints with other building blocks to design
elaborate catalog item blueprints that include multiple machines, networking and security, software with
full life cycle support, and custom XaaS functionality.
Depending on the catalog item you want to define, the process can be as simple as a single infrastructure
architect publishing one machine component as a blueprint, or the process can include multiple architects
creating many different types of components to design a complete application stack for users to request.
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