VMware just lately introduced the provision of the Cloud Director Extension SDK for growing answer add-ons and the answer add-on improvement lifecycle. It gives instruments for writing, constructing, testing, and packaging VMware Cloud Director UI plugins, runtime definitions, roles and rights, vApps and associated community companies and insurance policies, and their lifecycle operations.
Beginning in VMware Cloud Director 10.4.1, you should use VMware Cloud Director Solution add-ons UI to increase a VMware Cloud Director providing with extra value-added performance. The UI permits you to handle the assets and life cycle of answer add-ons. a An answer add-on is customized constructed for VMware Cloud Director within the extensibility ecosystem and might embrace each UI and API extensions along with their backend companies and lifecycle administration.
The roles within the answer add-on ecosystem are Vendor, Provider, and Tenant.
Vendors are the creators of answer add-ons who use the SDK to create companies that complement VMware Cloud Director service, reminiscent of container service extension, third-party software program distributors, Kubernetes service, and others.
Providers are the operators of answer add-ons within the VMware Cloud Director on-premises or VMware Cloud Director service atmosphere.
Tenants are the customers of the enterprise outcomes led to by an answer add-on, reminiscent of self-service of Kubernetes clusters, databases, UI extensions with back-office properties, and extra.
Setting up the Development Environment
To put together an atmosphere to make use of the VMware Cloud Director extension SDK, carry out the next, that are documented within the VMware Developer information at Setting up the Development Environment. The following directions had been carried out on Ubuntu desktop 20.04.
The subsequent steps are to construct your add-on and exploring the lifecycle course of, see Building a Simple Solution Add-On.
See the next VCPP Feature Friday video on the VMware Cloud Director Extension SDK.