Infrastructure Automation UI console views

Services

On the Services tab, you can view service instances. If you need to create a service instance, you are redirected to the Library > Services page, where you can create the service instance.

For more information, see Services.

Terraform templates

On the Services tab, you can view Terraform instances. If you need to create a Terraform instance, you are redirected to the Library > Terraform templates page, where you can create the Terraform instance.

For more information, see Templates.

Services

On the Services tab, you can view all services, which can be sorted by category. You can also choose to create or import services.

For more information, see Services.

Terraform templates

On the Terraform templates tab, you can view all templates. You can also choose to import a template.

For more information, see Templates.

Custom actions

On the Custom actions tab, you can view all custom actions, which can be sorted by category. You can also choose to create different custom actions.

For more information, see Creating and managing custom actions.

Cloud connections

On the Cloud connections tab, you can view and create cloud connections. Cloud connections allow you to create connections to each of your target cloud providers that are used when you deploy instances.

For more information, see Managing connections

Content runtimes

On the Content runtimes tab, you can view and create advanced content runtimes.

For more information about creating advanced content runtimes, see Managing content runtime

Email configuration

On the Email configuration tab, you can view and create email server configurations. To use email-related features within Manage services, you need to configure an email server to send these emails.

For more information about configuring and managing SMTP server connection for email notifications, see Managing Email Configuration

Shared parameters

On the Shared parameters tab, you can view and create data types and data objects that can be used as shared parameters. Shared parameters define shared configuration to store data and are used by templates. You can create reusable data objects using shared parameters. This helps save time when you are deploying new instances and creating services.

For more information, see Shared parameters.

Ansible Automation

On the Ansible Automation tab, you can create and view Ansible connections. By creating a globally accessible connection to Ansible Tower, you can include Ansible Automation within your services.

For more information about configuring an Ansible Tower connection, see Configuring the Ansible Tower connection.

Terraform versions

On the Terraform versions tab, you can view versions of Terraform that can be offered when you deploy templates and services. You can also create versions, if needed. A default version can be set, which is used when the template metadata does not specify a version.

For more information, see Managing Terraform Versions.

Usage

On the Usage tab, you can view the highest number of virtual machines (VMs) managed by Manage services each month. You can view the current and monthly usage, and download the usage data.

For more information, see Managing the usage of virtual machines.

Access Control

In the Access Control tab, you can provide access for users to certain namespaces. An administrator user can assign namespaces to the user or user groups by using this feature.

For more information, see Managing Access Control.

Services

On the Services tab, a tiled list of published services and applications is displayed. The list of services and applications is sorted according to categories. Clicking the service deploys that service to your environment. You can search a service by using Search services option or search by category.

For more information about services, see the following topics:

• Creating a service
• Publishing a service
• Deploying a service

Instances

On the Instances tab, a list of all deployed service and application instances is displayed. If needed, you can use the search box to filter the listed instances.

For each instance, the following information is displayed:

• The name of the instance
• The name of the service
• The status of the instance, Executed or Terminated
• The date and time when the service was deployed

A typical operation user can access all the following instance actions from the overflow menu:

• View: For more information, see Viewing service instance details.

• Edit: For more information, see Editing a service instance.

• Custom actions: For more information, see Custom actions.

• Retry/resume : For more information, see Resuming or retrying a service instance.

  • Applicable only for Error state instances.
  • Retry tries to deploy the instance from the beginning of the execution.
  • Resume tries to resume deploying the instance from the point of failure.

• Upgrade/downgrade: For more information, see Upgrading or downgrading a service instance

• Terminate/Delete: For more information, see Terminating and deleting a service instance.

  • Only Active instances can be terminated.
  • Only Terminated instances can be deleted.