Managing custom assets

In addition to APIs and packages, you can publish assets of your choice in Developer Portal. Providers to publish end-to-end development reference to their consumers by using the custom asset management feature.

As a provider, you can publish any types of reference for your consumers by using this feature.

You can add asset types and define their properties. You can also create a gallery for the custom assets and display on the UI. Like APIs and packages, your users can view the custom assets and collaborate over them.

Custom asset publishing involves the following steps:
  • Add asset type. First add the asset type, and configure its properties. You must have information that you require to describe the assets you publish to Developer Portal. You can specify the corresponding properties to provide information about each asset that you add to your custom gallery.
  • Add asset details. You can add assets along with their corresponding details.
  • Add asset gallery to Developer Portal. You can add the asset gallery after you add asset details for your consumers to view the custom assets.

The following use cases demonstrate the process of publishing custom assets by using an example. These use cases consider Microservices as custom assets and list the steps of publishing them to Developer Portal.