Marketplace catalog
The Marketplace is a catalog repository that includes a default catalog. A catalog is a collection of Docker applications that can be configured as needed before being deployed to Litmus Edge instances.
You can deploy both public and private catalogs, and then deploy applications for various uses. The default catalog is preloaded with applications, such as visualization, user interface reporting, business intelligence, programming, server, and database tools.
From the Marketplace Catalog browser pane, you can add, edit, or delete marketplace catalogs. You can modify the default marketplace catalog, but not delete it.
Access to Marketplace depends on the Marketplace role that an administrator assigns to your user account:
- Observer: You can view catalogs, applications, releases, and registries. You cannot create, edit, import, export, or deploy.
- Administrator: You have full access, including managing shared registries.
If your account has neither role, you cannot open Marketplace.
Note: When you upgrade from Litmus Edge Manager 2.x to 3.0.0, all existing users receive the administrator Marketplace role.
Access marketplace
To access the marketplace:
- Log in to Litmus Edge Manager.
- Select a company. The Projects pane appears.
- From the Projects pane, click a project or open the Action menu for a project and select View. The Dashboard pane appears for the project.
- From the Navigation panel, select Features. The Features pane appears.
- Click the Marketplace tile. The Marketplace Catalog pane appears in a separate browser tab. The default catalog displays, along with any other added catalogs.
Refer to the following actions you can take on the Litmus Edge Manager User UI's Marketplace Catalog pane.
- View applications in this catalog Display all applications in the catalog.
- Action menu
- Edit: Modify a Marketplace catalog.
- Export: Export a Marketplace catalog in JSON format. When you export, you can choose whether to include registries with the export. The export includes the shared registries that the catalog uses as dependent registries.
- Delete: Removing a Marketplace catalog also removes its associated applications. This cannot be undone.
- Add Catalog Name has a maximum of 32 characters.
- Change Catalog View Update the catalog view from Tile View to List View.
Filter catalogs by company and project
A catalog can be assigned to a company and a project. The default catalog is not assigned to a company. Use the Company and Project filters on the Catalogs page to narrow the list of catalogs.
To filter catalogs by company and project:
- In Company, select a company.
- In Project, select a project.
- Click Filter. The Catalogs page shows the catalogs that match.
The Project list is available after you select a company. To remove the filter, click Clear Filter.
Synchronize catalogs
Note: The Synchronization feature is available for Litmus Edge Manager 2.11.0 and later.
When you add a new catalog, you can also customize it as a synchronized catalog. See Synchronization for more details.
Action | Details |
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[1] Toggle Synchronize | You cannot change this setting after creating the catalog. |
[2] Select Synchronize Role |
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Navigate the marketplace catalog
The Marketplace catalog has a left navigation that is always visible. It has three pages:
- Catalogs: View, add, edit, export, and delete catalogs.
- Shared Registries: Manage the registries that every catalog can use. See Shared registries.
- Events: View Marketplace events.
When you open a catalog, its Applications, Registry, and Synchronization pages appear as tabs at the top of the catalog pages.
Applications
For a marketplace catalog, after clicking the catalog card (See View applications in this catalog from the previous section), you will be brought to the Applications pane for the selected marketplace catalog. Every catalog contains a collection of associated Docker applications. The default marketplace catalog contains the following ten Docker applications:
- Elasticsearch
- Grafana
- KDB
- Minio
- MongoDB
- Microsoft SQL for Linux
- MySQL
- PipelineDB
- PostgreSQL & Adminer
- Python
You can customize a catalog and its applications as needed. You can add, modify, and delete applications for the currently selected catalog. The currently selected catalog’s Docker applications are displayed as below.
Action | Details |
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[1] View Registry Management | |
[2] View Application | |
[3] Action menu |
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[4] Add or Import an application | The Select Icon option is an optional feature that allows you to select an visual image to represent the application. Litmus Edge instances that later receive this Docker application will also receive the same visual image.
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[5] Change Application View | Alter the view of application. |