How To: Marketplace 2.0 – Create and publish templates
Click-click-ready! You also want to create, unlock and use new templates on our new Marketplace so easily? No problem! We’ll show you how to get the most out of our Marketplace.
In our Marketplace, you could previously use various templates provided by us. To give you more freedom, we have added new features to the Marketplace. With Marketplace 2.0 you now have the possibility to create and deposit new templates of your choice. This gives you more flexibility and the freedom to integrate your own software into your cloud solution. But that’s not all! You can now make your templates available to other gridscale customers. How it all works, you will learn in the following.
Prerequisite
To store an template of your choice in the Cloud Panel, you need to upload it as a bucket to our object storage.
To do this, create a server with connected storage at gridscale.
Step 1
First, navigate to Object Storage and create an empty bucket.
Step 2
Give your bucket a name and click Create.
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Step 3
Next, navigate to Storage from the menu bar. Then create a snapshot.
If you need help creating a snapshot, see this tutorial.
Export the snapshot to the previously created Object Storage
Select the export destination and the correct destination bucket, and click Export Snapshot.
You are now ready to create your template on the Marketplace.
Deploying an Template
Navigate to the Marketplace and click Create template.
Next you need to fill in the mandatory fields: It is important that you have an image or logo for your template to upload.
Once you have filled in the mandatory fields, you are ready to submit your template.
As already mentioned, publishing your template to all customers is possible. To do this, you will need to fill in some vital information: a license, terms of use, launch information, and components included in the software.
Then click: Create Template.
Try it yourself
One of the advantages of the Marketplace is that as a Gridscale customer, you can also act as an independent software vendor (ISV). In addition, our partners can share the templates of their choice with their accounts. These are templates published by gridscale as well as by other partners. Furthermore, as our customer, you have all your templates bundled in your cloud. This simplifies your work as the templates are already there, making you much more effective and saving time. Have fun with it!