Starting with VCD 10.2 and App Launchpad 2.0.0.1, it is possible to deploy App Launchpad using MQTT for communication with VCD.

VCD 10.5 introduced a new feature called Content Hub as a replacement for App Launchpad. Service providers running VCD 10.5.x are encouraged to provide container/vm applications to tenants by integrating Content Hub with VMware MarketPlace and Helm repositories.

In this post, I will demonstrate how you can delete MQTT enabled App Launchpad extension from VCD.

Step 1: List Installed Extensions

The GET call returns a json in response listing all installed extensions and its ID. From the extensions list filter the ID of the App Launchpad extension.… Read More

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