Working with VMware Marketplace Resources in Your VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal

VMware Marketplace is an online platform that serves as a catalog content resource for the distribution, discovery, and deployment of container applications. Using the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal, you can create a VMware Marketplace resource and deploy Helm chart container applications from these catalog content resources to Kubernetes clusters.

Create a VMware Marketplace Resource in Your VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal

If you want tenants to import applications from VMware Marketplace into VMware Cloud Director catalogs, you must create a VMware Marketplace resource and share it with one or more tenant organizations.

A VMware Marketplace resource stores all the information you need to establish a connection with VMware Marketplace, to enable users to browse contents from a remote VMware Marketplace, and to import VMware Marketplace applications.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you have the Edit the External Source in Content Hub right.
• Verify that you have the token ID of a valid VMware Marketplace API token. See Generate API Tokens in the VMware Cloud Services Product Documentation.

Procedure

1. From the top navigation bar, select Content Hub.
2. From the left panel, select VMware Marketplace.
3. Click New.
4. Enter a name and, optionally, a description of the VMware Marketplace resource.
5. Enter the API URL for the VMware Marketplace production instance.
   The URL must be in the https://gtw.marketplace.cloud.vmware.com/api/v1 format.
6. Enter the API token ID of a valid VMware Marketplace token.
7. Enter the VMware Marketplace resource details.
8. Click Save.
   The VMware Marketplace connection appears in the list of resources.

What to do next

To modify the resource, click the vertical ellipsis next to the resource name, and select Edit.

Share a VMware Marketplace Resource Using Your VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal

As a VMware Cloud Director service provider administrator, you can share the configured VMware Marketplace resources with tenant organizations.

Prerequisites

• Verify that your service provider created a VMware Marketplace resource. For information about the creation of VMware Marketplace resources, see Create a VMware Marketplace Resource in Your VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal in the VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Guide.
• Verify that you have the Share the Content Hub External Source right.

Procedure

1. From the top navigation bar, select Content Hub.
2. From the left panel, select VMware Marketplace.
3. Click the vertical ellipsis next to the resource name, and select Share.
4. Select the tenant organizations with which you want to share the resource, and click Save.
   You can set the individual access level for the respective tenant organization only to Read Only.

Delete a VMware Marketplace Resource Using Your VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal

Using VMware Cloud Director Service Provider Admin Portal, you can delete an existing VMware Marketplace resource.

Prerequisites

• Verify that no templates are imported from the VMware Marketplace resource that you want to delete.
• Verify that you have the Delete the External Source from Content Hub right.

Procedure

1. From the top navigation bar, select Content Hub.
2. From the left panel, select VMware Marketplace.
3. Click the vertical ellipsis next to the resource name, and select Delete.
4. Click Delete.