VMware App Launchpad | 06 JUL 2022 Check for additions and updates to these release notes. |
VMware App Launchpad is an application platform as-a-service, hosted on VMware Cloud Partner Navigator, that offers a self-service portfolio of pre-configured, out-of-box applications appealing to developer personas. VMware App Launchpad brings in seamless integration with VMware Marketplace, enabling developers to deploy full-stack Bitnami and ISV applications with a single click, without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure. VMware App Launchpad accelerates AI developments through the NVIDIA NGC catalog, so developers can deploy HPC workloads onto vGPU enabled Kubernetes clusters.
Service Providers can configure App Launchpad service for their tenants to deploy workloads onto VMware Cloud Director, Cloud Director Service and VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC.
Service providers can remove customers' VMware App Launchpad data for customer purging.
Tenant users can deploy and manage the lifecycle of vApps with multiple VMs in default/advanced settings.
Service providers can select multiple storage profiles across private virtual data centers (PVDC) / datastores while onboarding their Cloud Director endpoint or VMC SDDC.
Global Availability for VMware App Launchpad
Unifies application deployment to VMware based clouds by supporting:
Tenant admins can attach Kubernetes clusters running on public networks, access restricted networks or isolated networks, enabling tenant users to deploy Helm Chart applications to any available Kubernetes cluster.
In addition to native Container Service Extension (CSE) clusters, tenant users can provision Tanzu Kubernetes Grid multi-cloud clusters from CSE.
Service providers can onboard a customer SDDC through automated gateway provisioning. This creates management group and management gateway resources for VMware App Launchpad to access the SDDC, without any manual intervention.
VMware App Launchpad micro service APIs are open to service providers, with documentation available for:
For information about the VMware App Launchpad public APIs, see the App Launchpad API Documentation.
Cloud catalog management that enables service providers to maintain catalogs in the cloud and synchronize across multiple cloud endpoints - VMware Cloud Director, Cloud Director Service and VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC instances
Tenant users can open VM web console on App Launchpad tenant portal, once VM workloads are deployed onto Cloud Director instances
Provider administrators can publish VM catalogs containing custom OVF applications to customers owning VMC SDDC instances. OVF applications can be synchronized to VMC SDDC instances and made available for tenant users to deploy
Tenant administrators can customize image and welcome message on their Applications Marketplace tab of the user interface dashboard
Tenant users receive in-app notifications for workload management when launching and deleting VM and Container workloads
Provider administrators can add custom information to imported applications and choose the visibility on application launch page or detail page
In addition to the current release notes, you can use the VMware App Launchpad Documentation set.
For information about the VMware App Launchpad public APIs, see the App Launchpad API Documentation.
Startup scripts are not supported when deploying Bitnami VM applications to VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs. For custom VM applications, you must turn on the custom scripts feature. See KB 74880.