Checklist for selling deployable architectures on IBM Cloud
Use the following checklist to track all the tasks that are required to successfully onboard and sell your third-party deployable architecture on IBM Cloud®.
Register your product
The following tasks can be completed by a team member who is familiar with the business case for the product.
Task | Description |
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Provide your company and product details | Specify the names of your company and product. |
Create a test environment | The test environment is used to onboard your deployable architecture and validate that it is ready for use. |
Assign team access | With the correct IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) access, members of your team can help onboard your deployable architecture. |
Invite team members to your account | Members of your account are assigned the IAM access that you set up in the previous task. |
Confirm your legal agreement with IBM | Review and accept the IBM Digital Reseller Agreement, or upload your custom digital provider agreement to be reviewed and approved by IBM. |
For more information, see Getting set up to sell deployable architectures.
Tell us about your product
The following tasks can be completed by a team member who is familiar with the business case, marketing details, and customer support experience for the product.
Task | Description |
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Review display name | Review the display name of the product that was generated for you and make any updates to it if needed. |
Verify your partner details | Review your company and team details and make sure that everything is correct. |
Define your product details | Add details, such as your product logo, keywords, description, features, and documentation URL, for your product's entry and details page in the IBM Cloud catalog. |
Define your support details | Provide your support site URL, contacts, escalation process, and the locations where your support teams are based. |
For more information, see the following documentation:
Onboard your product
The following tasks can be completed by a technical team member.
Task | Description |
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Add deployable architecture variations | Add variations of your architecture to provide options within your catalog tile that addresses the common business problem that your deployable architecture solves. |
Configure deployable architecture version | Confirm your version details and add deployment values for your version. |
Add deployable architecture details | Add architecture diagrams and highlights for your deployable architecture. |
Review your readme file | Review how the information in the readme file displays for your users. |
Validate deployable architecture version | Validate that the deployable architecture version can be deployed to the intended target. |
Review your estimated resource costs | Review the estimated starting cost of the resources that your deployable architecture creates. |
For more information, see the following documentation:
Publish your product
The following tasks can be completed by any member of your team.
Task | Description |
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Verify that all tasks are completed | Confirm that you completed the getting started tasks, defined your deployable architecture details, and onboarded your deployable architecture. |
Request to publish your deployable architecture | Submit a request for IBM Cloud to review your product details and approve that it is ready for publishing. |
Publish your deployable architecture | After your publishing request is approved, publish your deployable architecture to the IBM Cloud catalog. |
For more information, see Publishing your deployable architecture.
As a third-party provider, you're responsible for maintaining all assets of published deployable architecture in the IBM Cloud catalog and deprecating outdated versions.