App Launchpad is a VMware Cloud Director service extension that service providers can use to create and publish catalogs of deployment-ready applications. Tenant users can then deploy the applications with a single click.
- App Launchpad supports applications from the Bitnami applications catalog that are available in the VMware Cloud Marketplace.
- You can create catalogs of your custom, in-house applications and configure App Launchpad to work with these catalogs.
The older versions of the App Launchpad (<=2.0), use AMQP to communicate with VCD. Starting with App Launchpad v2.0.0.1, the MQTT protocol is also supported.
If you are using AMQP for the App Launchpad and running version > 2.0.0, you can reconfigure App Launchpad to use the MQTT protocol.
You have to first delete AMQP enabled App Launchpad before you can reconfigure it to use MQTT.
Step 1: Find App Launchpad Extension ID
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Method: GET URL: https://{{vcd_host}}/api/admin/extension/service/query?format=idrecords Authorization: Bearer Token Headers: Accept: application/*+json;version=36.0, Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.admin.service+json |
The GET call returns a json in response containing the ID of the App Launchpad extension.
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----snipped output---- { "href":"https://vcd01.lab.vmw/api/admin/extension/service/query?type=adminService&page=1&pageSize=25&format=idrecords", "type":"application/vnd.vmware.vcloud.query.idrecords+json", "name":"adminService", "page":1, "pageSize":25, "total":1, "record":[ { "_type":"QueryResultAdminServiceRecordType", "link":[ ], "metadata":null, "href":null, "id":"urn:vcloud:externalService:1fffc123-4e0c-4d88-8c2d-67e0a58efca4", "type":null, "otherAttributes":{ }, "name":"AppLaunchpad", "enabled":true, "exchange":"vcd_alp", "priority":50, "routingKey":"alpkey", "vendor":"VMware", "namespace":"com.vmware.vcd.alp", "isAuthorizationEnabled":false } ], "vCloudExtension":[ ] } |
Step 2: Disable App Launchpad Extension
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Method: PUT URL: https://{{vcd_host}}/api/admin/extension/service/{{UUID}} Authorization: Bearer Token Headers: Accept: application/*+json;version=36.0, Content-Type: application/vnd.vmware.admin.service+json Payload: { "name":"AppLaunchpad", "vendor":"VMware", "namespace":"com.vmware.vcd.alp", "exchange":"vcd_alp", "routingKey":"alpkey", "enabled":false } |
Step 3: Delete App Launchpad Extension
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Method: DELETE URL: https://{{vcd_host}}/api/admin/extension/service/{{UUID}} Authorization: Bearer Token Request Headers: Accept: application/*+json;version=36.0 |
And that’s it. You can now reconfigure App Launchpad to use the MQTT protocol by passing the –mqtt flag in the alp connect command. For more information about using MQTT with App Launchpad, see the product documentation.
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