App Launchpad does not require inbound access and does not expose network ports to the Internet.
App Launchpad communicates only with VMware Cloud Director and the AMQP Broker in your environment. If you use VMware Cloud Director 10.2, App Launchpad only communicates with VMware Cloud Director and does not require communicating with an AMQP broker.
App Launchpad requires outbound access to the Internet to connect to
VMware Marketplace, customer defined
Helm Chart repositories,
VMware Cloud services, and the services used by the Customer Experience Improvement Program. Make sure that outbound access is allowed for the following destinations:
- For connections to VMware Marketplace, allow access to https://gtw.marketplace.cloud.vmware.com/*.
- For connections to VMware Cloud services, allow access to https://console.cloud.vmware.com/*.
- For connections to services used by the Customer Experience Improvement Program, allow access to https://scapi.vmware.com/*.
The following diagram illustrates the network architecture and the connections between internal and external components of App Launchpad.
Container Service Extension Requirements
To use the Container Service Extension of VMware Cloud Director as an application deployment target, App Launchpad requires outbound access to the control plane node of each Kubernetes cluster that the Container Service Extension manages.
