This guide provides procedures to using and administering Buttonwood Cloud Broker. It provides an overview of each function of the Broker and explains how to use these functions.
It is recommended to review this guide prior to using the Broker to ensure that you are familiar with the concepts involved.
Buttonwood Cloud Broker
Buttonwood Cloud Broker simplifies multi-cloud consumption by intelligently brokering cloud workloads based on defined policies which meet business and technical requirements. From blueprint to production, workloads can be automated, modelled, provisioned and managed across multiple cloud providers - public or private.
Using the Broker, users can:
- Develop reusable cloud blueprints that incorporate powerful native services and integrate with leading technologies to deliver policy based outcomes
- Manage and drive down cost with a single platform for all your cloud workloads, through cost centres and budgets to federate cloud control and spend
- Transform IT into a broker of outcomes with increased cloud choice, financial visibility and control to eliminate cloud sprawl with fine grained policies
Guide Contents
The following topics are covered in this guide:
- Logging In
- Functional Overview
- Using the Overview
- Admin Menu
- Manage Menu
- Deployments
- Composer Menu
- Blueprinting
- Types of Blueprints
- Blueprint Composer
- Blueprint Actions
- Deploying Blueprints
- Blueprint Nodes