📄️ Overview
Service providers can deliver and monetise their cloud services portfolio using Service Catalogues. A 'Service' is defined as any cloud service that is being delivered via the Apiculus solution, and a 'Catalogue' is defined as a price book that subscribers/customers can choose from.
📄️ Working with Availability Zones
Availability Zones (AZ) on Apiculus are a highly versatile and unique way of managing Service delivery and availability. Apiculus AZ are essentially control planes for underlying ISV, which are set up to handle a host of delivery scenarios. Apiculus AZ also take into consideration the limitations that an ISV may bring (e.g., inability to manage multiple serviceable regions via a single management plane). In other words, Apiculus AZ may be seen as the 'delivery-level unification' of all underlying cloud services into a service topology.
📄️ Working with Cloud Collections
A Cloud Collection (CC) on Apiculus is a grouping of repeating components (called Collection Items) that can be published to offer options/configurations for the subscribers to choose from while purchasing a cloud resource. Apiculus CC can be based on a variety of factors, some examples of which are listed below:
📄️ Working with Default Services
Default Services (DS) is the catalogue that's available to all subscribers, unless specified otherwise. In other words, the DS catalogue controls the default rules for availability of any supported Service via configurations of:
📄️ Working with Custom Catalogues
Custom Catalogues behave in the same way as Default Services, except that these are designated for specified customers. Custom Catalogues carry the following considerations and characteristics:
📄️ Updating Prices on Catalogues
Pricing on Custom Catalogues can be edited at three levels:
📄️ Enabling or Disabling Catalogue Items
Default Services and Custom Catalogues both offer the ability to enable or disable item availability. This works at three levels:
📄️ Assigning Custom Catalogues to Customers
Custom Catalogues can be assigned to one or more customers using the Apiculus admin console. This is a guided workflow on the Apiculus admin console UI and can be done in simple steps.