Appliance objects are mapped to virtual appliance images within each Service Provider region.

Similar to Linux or Windows virtual machine Operating System nodes, Appliances are used by system architects when designing in the blueprint canvas. As appliances are prebuilt images, advanced functions such as uploading file artifacts or execution of scripts isn't available like they are for a virtual machine node.

This article describes the steps required to manage Appliances. Refer to the article Configuring Environment Appliance Mappings for details steps required to map existing appliances.

Prerequisites

• Administrative access to the Automation UI

Creating an Appliance

1. Log into the Broker UI as an administrative user
2. Navigate to Admin > Control Panel
   
   
3. Select the Appliances tile
4. Click Add
   
   
5. At the Add Appliance screen, enter the following information:
   • Name: A name for this Category
   • Description: A description for this Category
   • Icon URL: A URL to an image to be used as the Appliance's icon, supporting the following formats:
     • URL - eg. http://host.domain/image.png
     • Data URI - eg. data:image/png;base64,AAaBbB...
     • Font Awesome Icon - eg. <i class="fas fa-file"></i>
   • Disk Volumes: Disk sizes to match the disk schema of the virtual appliance
     
6. Click Add
7. A message indicates the status of the request
   
   Note: There are no configuration options for Appliances

Removing an Appliance

1. Log into the Broker UI as an administrative user
2. Navigate to Admin > Control Panel
   
   
3. Select the Appliances tile
4. On the Appliance to be removed, select the Edit drop down list
   Click Remove
   
   
5. Click Remove
   
   
6. A message indicates the status of the request