Bare Virtual-Machines products onboarding
This section describes how Bare Virtual-Machines marketplace products works.
A bare VM is a Virtual-Machine running on any of the supported cloud providers, inside a Public Cloud tenant or a Private Cloud (VCloud, Openstack) previously activated by the customer, with an operating system chosen during the order phase, without any particular software installed on it (a bare system).
End-users get administrative access to the VM (SSH for Linux, RDP for Windows) and they are responsible for the management and maintenance of it. For Linux VM, public key authentication is mandatory and customers need to provide their own public key before ordering a new Bare VM.
A new SSH keypair can be automatically generated during the marketplace checkout process.
ISVs cannot create a new VM product by themselves: an administrator must create a new product and assign it in order to be manageable by a particular ISV.
Classic Bare VM
Before supporting Public Cloud tenants, the platform supported the provisioning of Bare VM inside a shared tenant managed by the platform owner.
Now this feature has been deprecated in favor of the more secure and flexible tenants approach described before.