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You can add custom task scripts to these plans to run in the deployed virtual machine. You can use
these scripts to perform additional tasks such as security patches, audit integrations, quality and
compliance reviews using third-party internal IT systems, and running smoke tests.
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To streamline the build to deployment process, organizations can further automate deployment by
using the command-line interface to allow their continuous build systems or cloud provisioning portals
to generate and deploy an application.
Standardization in Application Services
With Application Services, you can create reusable services using standardized configuration properties
to meet strict requirements for IT compliance.
Application Services includes the following standardized configuration properties:
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Model-driven architecture that enables adding IT certified virtual machine templates and middleware
services within the application blueprint.
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A delegation model for overriding configuration name value pairs between application catalog
administrator, application architect, and deployer to standardize configuration values for application
and middleware service.
User Security
Users log in to Application Services with SSO credentials for the registered tenant and with at least one
assigned application user role.
Application Services supports an authentication mechanism through vRealize Automation. All of the users
in the identity stores (IDP) configured in vRealize Automation for the tenant registered with Application
Services can log in with SSO credentials, if they have at least one application user role assigned. For
information on how to assign user roles, see vRealize Automation Tenant Administration.
Key Concepts
To deploy an application, you must configure CAL. When you model a blueprint you can use virtual
machine templates that you obtain directly from a cloud provider library, as well as an extensible library of
ready-to-use application infrastructure components and scripts. After you model your application
deployment topology, you can create dependencies and edit configurations to finalize your execution
plan. After you deploy the application, you can also initiate an update process to scale clustered nodes, or
change the configuration or code of deployed applications when a new version is available.
The following definitions help you understand the provisioning and updating workflow.
Main components of CAL.
cloud template Cloud template that contains a predefined reusable machine image that
includes an operating system and data. When you create virtual machines
for your cloud environment, the specifications and software defined in the
cloud template are applied to that virtual machine.
Using Application Services
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