Create Designs

Use the Designs area of the HCM ARA Management Console to manage service designs, which are the recipes for automating the cloud. You can create the following types of designs:

• Topology Design - Topology designs specify components, relationships, groups, and properties. Use topology designs for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS) deployments that are enabled via Chef, Puppet, Server Automation and Operations Orchestration flow-based components. In contrast to sequenced designs, which more explicitly define the provisioning order and the sequence of actions that will run, topology designs are declarative in nature and do not include explicit actions or sequencing. The provisioning sequence is inferred by the relationships that exist between components in a topology design.
• Sequenced Design - Sequenced designs specify directed execution of service component lifecycles. Use sequenced designs for complex services and services that rely on run book automation, such as integrations with legacy data center systems. Create a sequenced design as a directed component hierarchy to define lifecycle execution. Sequenced designs use components to group multiple automation providers within a single entity. Sequenced designs permit explicit specification of lifecycle actions.

Refer to the following topics for more information:

• Topology designs
• Sequenced Designs
• Resource Offerings Overview Tab
• View Resource Offerings
• Create a Resource Offering
• Import and Export a Resource Offering
• Select or Remove Providers with a Resource Offering
• Lifecycle Actions for Resource Offerings
• User Operations for Resource Offerings
• Custom Resource Offering Properties
• Resource Offering Categories
• View Component Palettes
• View Component Types
• View Component Templates
• Palettes