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Service Catalog Overview
The service catalog provides a unified self-service portal for consuming IT services. Users can
browse the catalog to request items they need, track their requests, and manage their provisioned
items.
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Containers Overview
You can use containers to gain access to additional instrumentation for developing and deploying
applications in vRealize Automation.
Infrastructure as a Service Overview
With Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), you can rapidly model and provision servers and desktops across
virtual and physical, private and public, or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
Modeling is accomplished by creating a machine blueprint, which is a specification for a machine.
Blueprints are published as catalog items in the common service catalog, and are available for reuse as
components inside of application blueprints. When an entitled user requests a machine based on one of
these blueprints, IaaS provisions the machine.
With IaaS, you can manage the machine life cycle from a user request and administrative approval
through decommissioning and resource reclamation. Built-in configuration and extensibility features also
make IaaS a highly flexible means of customizing machine configurations and integrating machine
provisioning and management with other enterprise-critical systems such as load balancers, configuration
management databases (CMDBs), ticketing systems, IP address management systems, or Domain Name
System (DNS) servers.
Software Components Overview
Software components automate the installation, configuration, and life cycle management of middleware
and application deployments in dynamic cloud environments. Applications can range from simple Web
applications to complex and even packaged applications.
By using a configurable scriptable engine, software architects fully control how middleware and
application deployment components are installed, configured, updated, and uninstalled on machines.
Through the use of Software properties, software architects can require or allow blueprint architects and
end-users to specify configuration elements such as environment variables. For repeated deployments,
these blueprints standardize the structure of the application, including machine blueprints, software
components, dependencies, and configurations, but can allow environment variables and property
binding to be reconfigured if necessary.
To successfully add software components to the design canvas, you must also have business group
member, business group administrator, or tenant administrator role access to the target catalog.
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