Mastering Managed Application Offers
This course details the Managed Application offer-building and onboarding process. It consists of on-demand video modules, slides, and practical hands-on labs to apply your newly acquired knowledge.
- Managed Applications overview
- Managed Application deployment options
- Purchasing an Azure Application: The customer experience
- Managing my Managed Applications: The customer experience
- Administering customer subscriptions: The publisher experience
- The deployment package
- Working with createUiDefinition.json
- Working with mainTemplate.json
- Managed Applications webhook
- Metered billing overview
- Metered billing technical details
- Deploying a custom virtual machine offer
Managed Applications overview#
This module introduces Azure Applications and Managed Applications at a high level. It also covers the difference between private and public Managed Applications. If you are looking to understand the basic value proposition and architecture of Managed Applications this video is for you.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 00:48 β Azure Applications in a nutshell
- 02:47 β Managed Applications overview
- 09:07 β Managed Applications in the Azure Marketplace
- 12:54 - Summary
Managed Application deployment options#
This module examines the different deployment modes for Managed Applications. Managed Apps may be configured in different ways for both publisher and customer access to the Managed Resource Group. Use this video to learn the implications of this and choose the right deployment mode for your application.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 00:51 β Publisher management
- 03:47 β Customer access
- 05:51 β Deployment modes
- 08:56 β Summary
Purchasing an Azure Application: The customer experience#
In this demo-heavy module customers will learn how to manage their subscriptions to Managed Applications and get an idea of the capabilities a customer has when accessing the Managed Resource Group associated with each Managed Application.
Managing my Managed Applications: The customer experience#
This demo-only video shows customers how to administer their Managed Application purchases. It also examines customer access to the associated Managed Resource Groups.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 00:56 β The Managed Application dashboard in the Azure portal
- 04:38 β Managed Resource Group access
- 06:27 β Summary
Administering customer subscriptions: The publisher experience#
This quick demo shows how a publisher can use the Managed Applications center service in the Azure portal to administer the solution inside a customerβs Managed Resource Group.
The deployment package#
Get an overview of the deployment package required for all Managed Applications. This module covers the deployment package format and provides a high-level look at the contents of the file. Future modules of this course focus on the individual files found in the deployment package.
Working with createUiDefinition.json#
Dive deep into the createUiDefinition.json file and learn how to develop a useful and compelling user experience for customer deployments. This module shows the structure and usage of the createUiDefinition.json file as well as providing some great tips on working with this file.
- 00:00 - Overview
- 00:51 β CreateUiDefinition overview
- 06:22 β Demo: createUiDefinition.json walkthrough
- 10:20 β Demo: The development sandbox
- 14:07 β Demo: Dynamic elements
- 18:12 β Summary
Working with mainTemplate.json#
This demo-only module explores the ARM template required by Managed Applications in the deployment package.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 01:01 β ARM templates in Azure
- 04:14 β ARM template nomenclature
- 06:32 β Testing with ARM-TTK
- 11:43 β Summary
Managed Applications webhook#
You may configure an optional webhook for Managed Applications that listens for events from the Azure Marketplace emitted during deployment of the application. This module offers and overview of the webhook as well as a complete demo on how it works.
- 00:00 - Overview
- 00:46 - Webhook overview
- 07:10 - Webhook demo scenario
- 08:21 - Demo: Partner Center configuration
- 09:15 - Demo: Customer purchase process
- 10:56 - Demo: Inspecting the webhook payload
- 12:10 - Summary
Metered billing overview#
This module introduces the metered billing capabilities of Managed Applications. It covers what metered billing is and how it works at a high level, along with how to configure them in Partner Center. Additionally, this module includes some scenarios describing how to use the capability creatively.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 00:46 β How metered billing works
- 06:25 β Metered billing scenarios
- 10:30 β Summary
Metered billing technical details#
In this module, youβll learn about the technical aspects of calling the metered billing API. This includes different architectures for creating your reporting system as well as a demo showing the API being called to invoke usage events.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 01:00 β Direct reporting
- 01:59 β Centralized reporting
- 03:52 β Working with the metered billing API
- 06:12 β Demo: Working with the metered billing API
- 11:49 β Summary
Deploying a custom virtual machine offer#
This demo-heavy module takes you through the process of deploying a custom virtual machine with a Managed Application. Youβll see all the steps involved including configuring things in Partner Center and how to author the deployment package files. Notice the code used in this module is available for download above.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 00:48 β Scenario overview
- 03:49 β The custom VM offer in Partner Center β Demo
- 07:08 β The deployment package β Demo
- 12:11 β The deployment process β Demo
- 15:06 β Summary
Deploying a base VM image with your custom software#
This deployment model is an alternative to deploying a custom virtual machine as part of your Managed Application. In this module, youβll see how to deploy a base Azure VM and then install your software on it with a script that runs as part of the deployment process.
- 00:00 β Overview
- 01:02 β Scenario overview
- 05:10 β The deployment package β Demo
- 12:42 β The deployment process β Demo
- 17:34 β Summary
Hands-on labs#
To perform the hands-on labs, visit this GitHub repository, which is home to the Mastering the Marketplace labs.