Requesting a Deployment from a Catalog Item Using Service Broker APIs

To create catalog items and request deployments, you use the Service Broker Catalog APIs.

This use case includes the procedures required to associate a project that you previously created with the catalog source, create a catalog source, and create entitlements, so that you can request a deployment from the catalog item. Optionally, if you want to expire your deployment, you can create a lease policy. If you want to limit resource consumption in your deployment, you create a limit policy.

Prerequisites for Requesting a Deployment from a Catalog Item

All tasks for requesting a deployment from a catalog item share the following common prerequisites:

• Verify that you are at least an organization member in VMware vRealize Automation with both a Cloud Assembly administrator service role and a Service Broker administrator service role.
• Verify that you have an active access token. See Getting Your Authentication Token.
• Verify that the URL variable is assigned.

  url='https://appliance.domain.com'

• Verify that the API version variable is assigned as in the following example.

  api_version='2020-08-25'

  If you choose not to assign a value to the apiVersion or to assign it to a different value, review the information in API versioning.

• Verify that you have the ID for a project that has the cloud template versioned and released to it. See the prerequisites section of Create and Update a Cloud Template.

Any additional prerequisites are specified with the individual tasks.