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Register your service

Register your service

This tutorial walks you through how to register a service in IBM Cloud® Partner Center. By completing this tutorial, you learn how to provide your company details, create a test environment, and grant team members access to help with the onboarding process

This tutorial is one of five in a series that demonstrates how to onboard and publish a service to the IBM Cloud catalog. It uses a fictitious company that's called Example Corp. As you complete the tutorial, adapt each step to fit your needs.

Before you begin

  1. Verify that you're using a Pay-As-You-Go or Subscription account by going to Manage > Account > Account settings in the IBM Cloud console.
  2. Verify that you're assigned the administrator role on all account management services and all IAM-enabled services. For more information, see Assigning access to account management services and Managing access to resources.

Provide your company name

  1. In the IBM Cloud console, click the Navigation Menu icon Navigation Menu icon > Partner Center > Overview > Get started.
  2. Enter the name of your company as you want it to be displayed in the catalog, and click Save. For the purpose of this tutorial, enter Example Corp as the company name.

Create your test environment

A test environment is not needed for onboarding services but is needed for any software that you might onboard in the future. You, or a member of your team, uses the test environment to validate that your software is ready for use.

  1. Click Create in the Create your test environment section.
  2. Enter Example Corp Catalog as the name of the private catalog, and click Create.

Set up access for your team

You can enlist team members to help with the onboarding process by assigning them specific levels of IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) access. To streamline the process of assigning access, complete the following steps to create your access group:

  1. Click Assign in the Assign access section.

  2. Enter Example Corp Service as the name of the access group, and click Create. The following roles are assigned to the access group by default:

    • Administrator on the Catalog Management service
    • Editor on the Partner Center - Sell service
    • Editor on the User Management service
    • Editor on the IAM Access Groups service
    • Viewer on all account management services

    For more information about the actions associated with each role, see Actions and roles for account management services.

Next steps

You're now ready to define your service details. Click Let's go to continue.