Building service blueprints
Service blueprints define the software, hardware, and deployment options for a service in the Service Catalog. A service blueprint is required before you can create a service. For service blueprint overview information, see Service blueprints overview. For more information about building service blueprints, see the following topics:
After creating a service blueprint, you can use the blueprint when creating a service, as described in Creating-cloud-services.
Video series
The videos in this section show several common tasks for creating a service blueprint, including infrastructure configuration, the creation of simple and complex service blueprints, and the configuration of load balancers and firewalls in a blueprint.
The following video (4:50) shows how to leverage an existing vSphere VM as a template for use in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management:
The following video (7:52) shows how to leverage an existing Amazon AMI as a template for use in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management:
The following video (6:11) shows how to create an Apache application package that can be used in a BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management blueprint:
The following video (7:07) shows how to create a basic service blueprint in the BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management Service Designer, and use that blueprint as part of a requestable service:
The following video (5:08) shows how to create a more complex service blueprint for a 2-tier Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PMP (WAMP) stack:
The following video (6:19) shows how to use parameters in a service blueprint, following an example of an HTTP port number the user specifies when requesting a service in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management:
The following video (2:04) shows how to modify the WAMP stack blueprint to include load-balancing capabilities in the Web tier:
The following video (1:15) shows how to configure firewall rules between the Web server and database tiers of the WAMP stack blueprint:
Service Blueprint terminology changes in BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 4.0
If you have upgraded to BMC Cloud Lifecycle Management 4.0 from an earlier version, be aware that some of the terms and labels related to service blueprints have changed in version 4.0. The following table lists the changes.
Old term/label in version 3.x | New term/label in version 4.6 |
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Compute Resources > Hardware Architecture | Hardware
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Compute Resources > NICs > Assign Public IP | Assign NAT Address
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Compute Resources > NICs > Private IP | IP Address
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Deployment Definition | Definition
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Component or Functional Component | Application
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Network Resources > Load Balancer Pool > Client Network Selection Method | Load Balancer Pool Tags
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Network Resources > NICs | Network
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Network Resources > VLB Pool Name | Load Balancer Pool Name
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Resource Set | Server Group
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Service Definition | Service Properties
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