Creating application blueprints

To create an application blueprint, map the components of the application to a resource template.

Before you begin

Create a resource template or import one from a cloud system as described in Importing resource templates from clouds.

Procedure

  1. Click Applications, click your application, and then click Blueprints.
  2. Click Create New Blueprint.
  3. Specify a name for the blueprint and select the resource template.
  4. Click Save. The new blueprint opens, showing the contents of the template, including the agent prototypes.
  5. Map the components of the application to the agent prototypes:
    1. Hover the mouse over an agent prototype and then click Actions > Add Component.
    2. In the window that opens, select a component, specify its information, and click Save.
    3. Repeat this process to add the application components to the agent prototypes. Depending on how your application is organized, you can add the same component to multiple agent prototypes or multiple components to the same agent prototype.
    Note: If you create an environment from this blueprint and then change the component mappings, the environment changes to match the blueprint.

Results

The complete application blueprint shows how the components are mapped to the agent prototypes. The following example shows a simple blueprint. The resource template contains two agent prototypes. In the blueprint, one component is mapped to each agent prototype.
A simple blueprint that was created from a two-node resource template

What to do next

Create one or more environments based on this blueprint. See Creating dynamic environments from cloud systems.

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