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Accessing the SoftIron marketplaces

SoftIron hosts three marketplaces for clients to access and from which to pull Appliances and Images. These marketplaces are the SoftIron Official, Partner, and Community marketplaces. Each marketplace is unique in the respect of what is made available and how these Appliances and Images are supported.

  • The SoftIron Official marketplace contains items that are directly created and supported by SoftIron via a subscription-based, solution package add-on to the HyperCloud deployment.

  • The Partner marketplace contains Appliances and Images owned by a third-party

  • The Community marketplace will house all other Appliances and Images hosted by SoftIron that are freely available for download and use; such as, the gateway and iSCSI appliances.

The marketplaces are simply statically generated on a HyperCloud web server and can be routed from the HyperCloud Dashboard and linked to access the content for downloading.

To add the marketplaces to the Dashboard, first navigate to marketplaces underneath the Storage dropdown menu on the left side of the dashboard screen.

marketplace Link under Storage Menu

From here, the list of connected marketplaces will be presented and from the actions ribbon underneath the page header, click the green + button.

Wizard

The marketplace creation wizard will open and here, the Name, description (optional), Storage backend (statically Generated Marketplace), and Configuration attributes (found below) can be provided to initiate the marketplace on the Dashboard. After providing the required items for the Wizard, click the green Create button and the Wizard will automatically exit the marketplace will be available shortly in the list.

Marketplace Wizard

Marketplace Endpoints

The Configuration Attribute field for the SoftIron Marketplaces requires URL endpoints for each marketplace and the SoftIron sponsored marketplaces are listed below:

The Usernames and Passwords that are required to access these marketplaces are unique to each entity, if you do not have a set of username:password, please contact support@softiron.com to request access to these marketplaces.

SoftIron Official https://$USER:$PASSWORD@marketplace.softiron.cloud/softiron/metadata/

Partner https://$USER:$PASSWORD@marketplace.softiron.cloud/partner/metadata/

Community https://$USER:$PASSWORD@marketplace.softiron.cloud/community/metadata/