Enterprise Marketplace deployment modes
Enterprise Marketplace deployment modes
Understand the two deployment modes and the permissions each one offers to the service tenant and customer tenant.
Enterprise Marketplace in the Service Provider edition offers a curated catalog and access control to service offerings for each of their customers. Using role based access controls, you can enforce the service provider tenant role in line with feature, persona, and access described later on this section.
Enterprise Marketplace in the service provider edition can run in two modes: regular and managed instances. An instance can be selected once the service provider tenant is created.
The instance selection cannot be changed after it has been set, and will be respected by all customer tenants linked to the service provider.
The service provider tenant in Enterprise Marketplace is enabled in two modes
- Managed Kyndryl Modern Operations Applications Instance
- Regular Kyndryl Modern Operations Applications Instance
Managed Kyndryl Modern Operations Applications Instance
The managed instance is set by default. This instance is managed by a service provider who later distributes it to their customer (customer tenant or managed service provider). The service provider tenant will serve as a control plane that will determine the end user functionality on customer tenants.
Content availability
: The out of the box (OOTB) content is available for the service provider edition but not for the customer tenant. Managed instance capabilities per role
Overall, the service provider encompass (but not limited to) the privileges of a catalog administrator. The service provider can govern the service offering (SO) in the Enterprise Marketplace Catalog and assign such SO to the customer catalogs. For details on how to run the Catalog for this edition, see Catalog Management Dashboard.
On the contrary, the customer tenant can order services and track their progress accordingly as well as establish operational and approval policies. For a specific description of each role in Enterprise Marketplace, see Roles in Enterprise Marketplace.
Catalog Administrator
Feature | SP tenant behavior | CT behavior |
|---|---|---|
View, create, or modify categories. | Available | Not available |
Access the Catalog Management UI and view draft, WIP, publish, retire, or delete a service offering | Available | Not available |
Discover, import, servicify, preview, and publish a service offering | Available | Not available |
Distribute service offerings from the master catalog to the customer Catalogs | Available | Not available |
Price service Offerings for public Cloud and Terraform services | Available | Not available |
Price service Offerings for vRA | Available | Not available |
Price service Offerings for generic content server supported SO | Available | Not available |
Price service Offerings for CP4MCM (common pricing service) | Available | Not available |
Preview pricing based on pricing rules* | Available | Not available |
Delete and retire service offerings using the API | Available | Not available |
Delete and retire service offerings using the UI | Not available | Not available |
Access the catalog management dashboard | Available | Available |
* The enablement depends on the flag in pricing common service. Set to TRUE by default.
Catalog Policy Administrator
Feature | SP tenant behavior | CT behavior |
|---|---|---|
View, Create or Modify Pricing Rules* | Not available | Available |
View, Create or Modify Catalog Personalization Policies | Not available | Available |
* The enablement depends on the flag in pricing common service. Set to TRUE by default.
Policy Administrator
Feature | SP tenant behavior | CT behavior |
|---|---|---|
View, create, or modify operational policies | Not available | Available |
View, create, or modify approval policies | Not available | Available |
Buyer / Purchaser
Feature | SP tenant behavior | CT behavior |
|---|---|---|
Configure and order services from the Catalog | Not available | Available |
View order tracking information* | Not available | Available |
View SOI information, perform Day 2 operations, and transfer ownership of SOIs* | ||
View the ordered services page** | Not available | Available |
* This feature also applies for Operator role.
** This feature also applies for IT Operations Manager role.
Regular Kyndryl Modern Operations Applications Instance
This instance is not managed by a service provider. The service provider can just view the list of the customer tenants as no access to features is provisioned (including out of the box (OOTB) content).
Even though the service provider tenant may exist in a regular Kyndryl Modern Operations Applications edition, it cannot be used as no roles will be enabled. On the other hand, the customer tenant can access to all roles, features, and capabilities (including out of the box (OOTB) content).
Regular instance capabilities per role
Overall, the service provider has no privileges for any of the roles displayed on the tables. On the contrary, the customer tenant has all the privileges for all the roles detailed on the tables. For a specific description of each role in Enterprise Marketplace, see roles.
Catalog Administrator
Feature | SP tenant behavior | CT behavior |
|---|---|---|
View, create, or modify categories. | Not available | Available |
Access the Catalog Management UI and view draft, WIP, publish, retire, or delete a service offering | Not available | Available |
Discover, import, servicify, preview, and publish a service offering | Not available | Available |
Distribute service offerings from the master catalog to the customer Catalogs | Not available | Available |
Price service Offerings for public Cloud and Terraform services | Not available | Available |
Price service Offerings for vRA | Not available | Available |
Price service Offerings for generic content server supported SO | Not available | Available |
Price service Offerings for CP4MCM (common pricing service) | Not available | Available |
Preview pricing based on pricing rules* | Not available | Available |
Delete and retire service offerings using the API | Not available | Available |
Delete and retire service offerings using the UI | Not available | Available |
Access the catalog management dashboard | Not available | Available |
* The enablement depends on the flag in pricing common service. Set to TRUE by default.
Catalog Policy Administrator
Feature | SP tenant behavior | CT behavior |
|---|---|---|
View, Create or Modify Pricing Rules* | Not available | Available |
View, Create or Modify Catalog Personalization Policies | Not available | Available |
* The enablement depends on the flag in pricing common service. Set to TRUE by default.
Policy Administrator
Feature | SP tenant behavior | CT behavior |
|---|---|---|
View, create, or modify operational policies | Not available | Available |
View, create, or modify approval policies | Not available | Available |
Buyer / Purchaser
Feature | SP tenant behavior | CT behavior |
|---|---|---|
Configure and order services from the Catalog | Not available | Available |
View order tracking information* | Not available | Available |
View SOI information, perform Day 2 operations, and transfer ownership of SOIs* | ||
View the ordered services page** | Not available | Available |
* This feature also applies for Operator role.
** This feature also applies for IT Operations Manager role.
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