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Overview

In addition to applications that are orchestrated on the provider's infrastructure, Operators can also provide users with the convenience of making 3rd party/custom SaaS apps in their self service portal. This ensures that they can provide a single pane of glass type experience for end users.

SaaS Apps for End Users

For SaaS applications that are meant for end users, operators can customize the menu that will be shown to end users in the self service portal.

In the example below, we have added a new category called "Event Streaming" and a menu item for "Confluend Cloud". Clicking on the card will take the user to the URL for the Confluent Cloud SaaS App

Access SaaS App in Left Menu

App Configuration

These menus can be added and configured via declarative JSON that can be added by an admin with a super admin role in the Ops Console.

  • Select partner and edit
  • Click on PaaS Customizations
  • Update the JSON with the entry for the new SaaS App and Save

Configure SaaS App in Left Menu

In the example below, the JSON for Confluent Cloud SaaS app is as follows. Note that there is an additional configuration "isExternalLink": true. This will ensure that clicking on it will take the user to the external URL for the SaaS app. 

{
    "value": "https://login.confluent.io",
    "isExternalLink": true,
    "label": "Launch Confluent Cloud",
    "groupBy": "Event Streaming",
    "icon": "zmdi zmdi-cloud",
    "description": "Stream, connect, process, and govern your data with the Confluent real-time platform",
    "objectLabel": "Confluent Cloud",
    "templateCard": {
        "labelClass": "text-red-700/70",
        "iconClass": "border-yellow-500/10 bg-yellow-100"
    },
    "homeServiceCard": {
        "description": "Stream, connect, process, and govern your data with the Confluent real-time platform",
        "iconClass": "border-yellow-500/10 bg-yellow-100 text-yellow-700/70"
    }
}

SaaS Apps for Admins

For SaaS applications that are meant for tenant administrators, operators can customize the top level menus

In the example below, we have added a new app category called "Cisco Apps" and provided clickable cards for two SaaS apps "Cisco Intersight" and "Splunk Cloud". Clicking on the card will take the user to the URL for the SaaS app.

Access SaaS App

App Configuration

The top level menus can be added and configured in the Ops Console per partner entity.

  • Click on the partner and edit
  • Click on Applications
  • Add a Separator Label (e.g. Cisco)
  • Add details for the SaaS App (Name of App, App URL, Description, Icon Image)

You can optionally group multiple SaaS Apps into a category (e.g. Cisco Apps)

Configure SaaS App