Managing Marketplaces In Sunstone on

Overview

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This section details the procedures for administrators and users to create, configure, and manage both Public and Private Marketplaces directly through the OpenNebula Sunstone web interface (version 7.0).

The goal is to enable users to effectively control the catalog of virtual machine and container images (Appliances) available for deployment.

The following topics are covered within this section:

Managing Marketplace Appliances : Instructions on importing, managing, and maintaining the virtual machine and container images, or “Appliances,” that populate the marketplaces.

Managing Marketplace Appliances

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A Marketplace Appliance is a generic resource (an entry on the marketplaceapp pool) that can be of any of the following three types:

Image, a single Image, optionally including a VM template.
VM, a VM template referring to one or more images.
Service, a multi-VM service composed of one or more templates associated with images.

This guide introduces the process to create and manage Marketplace Appliances.

Marketplaces in Sunstone

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The Sunstone web UI allows you to graphically manage Marketplaces. Within Sunstone, open the left-hand pane then select Storage -> Marketplaces to perform the following operations:

Note

Only OpenNebula Systems, LinuxContainers, HTTP and S3 Marketplaces can be created with Sunstone.