You can integrate your software service with VMware Tanzu Operations Manager to create a brokered service and service tile for VMware Tanzu Operations Manager. You can achieve the first real improvement in your VMware Tanzu Operations Manager customers’ user experience by creating a Service Broker for your service.
A brokered service runs external to VMware Tanzu Operations Manager, but it has a tile on the Broadcom Support portal. You install, configure, and upgrade the tile through the Tanzu Operations Manager Installation Dashboard.
The service broker eliminates the need for you to know the URLs and credentials for your services. They are managed automatically by the broker. Building a broker for an externally deployed service is generally a good way to publish a first tile that adds real value for you, your software, and VMware Tanzu Operations Manager.
See Service Brokers for more information about how to create a service broker. The following details are available:
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Route Services explains how to create a route service, for use in the routing layer of VMware Tanzu Operations Manager rather than by hosted VMware Tanzu Operations Manager apps.
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Catalog explains how to design the part of your Service Broker API that publishes service plan information to the Marketplace.
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You can write your service broker in the language of your choice. Buildpacks explains how to create a language-specific buildpack that compiles and packages your service broker to run on VMware Tanzu Operations Manager.
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After you have the individual components for your brokered service integration, you can work through Building Your First Tile to create your tile.
At any level of integration, VMware recommends and supports using Concourse for continuous integration during development.
