Create or update a catalog item from a Google Cloud Deployment Manager (GDM) template

Instead of generating a catalog item based on a blueprint, you can generate a catalog item based on a template that is held in the GDM configuration management system. The system parses the attributes in both the template file and optional supporting files and then generates a blueprint and a catalog item.

Vorbereitungen

Role required: sn_cmp.cloud_service_designer

Warum und wann dieser Vorgang ausgeführt wird

Cloud Provisioning and Governance supports Google Cloud Platform templates managed by Cloud Deployment Manager (GDM) that were created in YAML, Python, or Jinja2.

The procedure to create a catalog item from a template involves the following steps:

1. Create and save a catalog item record that references the template. The catalog item is in Draft state. In a later step, you activate the catalog item to make it available to cloud users.
2. Create a cloud template record. The cloud template specifies a configuration installable (a directory structure that includes the template file) to use as the source of the catalog item.
   Hinweis:

   You can update the cloud template record later, by referencing an updated configuration installable. Instructions are included in this procedure.
3. Google Cloud Platform only: If the template file depends on supporting files (typically updates or template code that specifies attribute settings), you add the files to the Dependent Templates related list.
4. Activate the cloud template to generate a resource block and blueprint that are associated with the catalog item and to make the cloud template available for use by the catalog item.
5. Activate the catalog item so that cloud users in the Cloud User Portal can use it to provision resources.

Prozedur

1. In the Cloud Admin Portal, navigate to Design > Cloud Catalog Items.
2. Click New and then enter a unique and meaningful Name, Short description, and Description.
3. Specify the Source as Cloud Template and the Template Type as Google Cloud Deployment Manager.

   

4. Right-click in the header and select Save.
5. On the Cloud Templates related list, click New and enter a unique Name and Short description.

   

6. Specify the content of the template and select one of three options.
   • Paste the text of the template file into the form:
     1. Set Ingestion method to Use Template Body.
     2. You typically use either a custom template that you created or a template in a public GitHub or Bitbucket repository. Open the template file in a text editor and copy the full text of the file.
     3. On the Cloud Template Versions form, paste the text into the Body text box.

     

   • Specify the URL of the template file:
     1. Set Ingestion method to Import from URL.
     2. In a browser, go to the template file. Copy/paste the full URL of the template into the Cloud template URL text box.

     

   • Upload the template file:
     1. Set Ingestion method to Upload a file.
     2. Click the Click to add link for the Upload file field.

        

     3. Click Choose File, select the file, and then click OK. The system adds the template and the filename appears in the Upload file field. The results of the import process appear in the Validation status and Validation message fields.
7. The template code appears in the Body text box.

   If the file does not include a path entry under imports:, then skip this step. If the file does include an entry, then the template file depends on at least one dependent file (typically updates or files that specify attribute settings). Perform the following procedure for each dependent file (cloudsql.jinja in the example):

   

   1. In a text editor, open the dependent template file (cloudsql.jinja in the example).
   2. Copy the full text of the file.
   3. On the GDM Dependent Templates related list, click New.
   4. Paste the full text of the dependent template file into the File content text box.
   5. Enter the exact name of the dependent template file into the File name text box.

      

   6. Click Submit.
      The file appears in the GDM Dependent Templates related list.
   7. Repeat the procedure for each dependent template file.
8. On the Cloud Template Versions form, click Activate.
   The system generates the catalog item and a blueprint with the name that you specified for the catalog item.
9. On the Cloud Catalog Item form, select the Active check box, and then click Submit.
   The system displays the catalog item on the Cloud Catalog Items page and publishes the catalog item to the Cloud Service Catalog for use by end users.

   

   Hinweis:

   As with any catalog item, you can add or remove a user-viewable field. Click the card to open the catalog item form. On the Variable Sets tab, edit the variables.

Nächste Maßnahme

Verify that the catalog item appears in the Cloud User Portal.