Introduction

Marketplace is a central module for provisioning of Waldur resources. Marketplace contains Offerings that belong to a special type of Organizations - Service Providers. Marketplace provides common functionality for resource lifecycle management, accounting and invoicing. Specifics are implemented in the Marketplace plugins (e.g. for OpenStack, SLURM, Rancher, etc).

Diagram of concepts

Adding a new Offering

To create a new Offering in the Marketplace, you need to:

• Assure that categories are configured in the Marketplace.
• Create at least one service provider.
• Create and activate a public offering.

Creating a Service Provider

Pick or create an organization that will be used as a service provider. Mark it a such in the Management tab of the organization using "Register as service provider":

Creating Marketplace categories

To create a category, either use administrative interface of Waldur, hosted under `/admin (can be accessed by staff users) or use management command for loading the pre-defined categories.

• With Docker-compose deployment:

  docker exec -t waldur-mastermind-worker waldur load_categories  # vpc vm storage ...

• With Helm deployment

Open waldur-mastermind-worker shell and execute the following command:

1. Get waldur-mastermind-worker pod name

  # Example:
  kubectl get pods -A | grep waldur-mastermind-worker # -->
  # default       waldur-mastermind-worker-6d98cd98bd-wps8n   1/1     Running     0          9m9s

1. Connect to pod via shell

  # Example:
  kubectl exec -it waldur-mastermind-worker-6d98cd98bd-wps8n -- /bin/bash

1. Execute command to see available or add a category

  waldur load_categories  # vpc vm storage ...

Creating public Offering

Once you have a service provider and at least one category defined, you can add a new service offering.

• Go to Public services -> Public offerings:

• Fill in details of the offerings.

• Activate an offering (requires staff account) to make it visible in the Marketplace.

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Last update: 2023-01-05