Cloud Provisioning roles include a landlord (z/OS system programmer), domain administrator (middleware system programmer), WLM and network administrators, and consumers (application developers).

As the landlord, you define:

• The systems to use for Cloud Provisioning (the domain). A default domain and tenant (users) help you get started.
• Whether to perform security updates manually or allow Cloud Provisioning to perform them automatically. Best practice is automatic security.

Update parmlib member IZUPRMxx to enable pre-requisite plug-ins and to specify automatic or manual security.

Work with the security administrator to set up security for Cloud Provisioning using the IZUPRSEC sample, which enables access to the Cloud Provisioning tasks in z/OSMF, Resource Management and Software Services.

Obtain workflow and related files from the software provider.

Use information included with the files to understand what you need to customize – for example, input variables, JCL, actions, and approvers.

Consider whether to use the default tenant or create a customized tenant, which defines the users who can provision software.

To prepare a software services template and provision software, you perform these steps using the Software Services task of z/OSMF.

1. Add a template
2. Customize template files
3. Modify or create a tenant
4. Associate a tenant with a template
5. Create the resource pools for the template: (working with the appropriate administrator
6. Approve a template
7. Test run a template
8. Publish a template

Determine how you want to make z/OS software services available to your consumers.

You might use:

• z/OS Cloud Broker to make software services avaialble through IBM Cloud Private
• An enterprise self-service cloud marketplace
• z/OS Provisioning Toolkit
• Urban Code Deploy z/OSMF Plugin
• Zowe Command Line Interface
• The z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning sample marketplace

Learn about z/OS Cloud Broker

To modify an existing marketplace or create a new marketplace, begin by learning about the z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning REST APIs by reviewing the source code for the Marketplace and Marketplace Administration plug-ins to see examples of REST API invocation or by using Swagger documentation of the z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning REST APIs.

z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning REST APIs

Use Swagger to display z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning REST APIs

To enable the Marketplace plug-in provided with z/OSMF, use the following information:

Enable the Marketplace plug-in

Focus on your application design and development. You can determine when you need the environment.

Provision and manage software services using the method that’s provided for you in your enterprise, which might be:

• z/OS Cloud Broker to make software services avaialble through IBM Cloud Private
• An enterprise self-service cloud marketplace
• z/OS Provisioning Toolkit
• Urban Code Deploy z/OSMF Plugin
• Zowe Command Line Interface
• The z/OSMF Cloud Provisioning sample marketplace