About the Cloud
The IBM® WebSphere® Cast Iron® Cloud (Cloud) administrator provisions a tenant for your organization and can create multiple environments for you to deploy your projects in. The Cloud administrator also provides a username and password for the tenant administrator.
After the tenant, and any environments are created, it is the tenant administrator that creates users and groups, and manages environments in the tenant.
Cloud Tenants
The IBM WebSphere Cast Iron Cloud (Cloud) supports multiple organizations (tenants). Each cloud tenant is managed by a tenant administrator. The tenant administrator creates and manages users and groups, for a specific cloud tenant.
You can get a trial version or buy Cast Iron Live licenses using the IBM Marketplace: https://www.ibm.com/marketplace/cloud/cloud-integration/us/en-us.
Cloud Environments
The Cloud supports multiple environments for each tenant. The environments allow you to stage project development or isolate project development.
For example, you can have a Development, Staging, and Production environment. These environments display as tabs in the Cloud Web Application. While the Cloud administrator, not the tenant administrator, creates these environments for each tenant, it is the tenant administrator that grants permissions to individual users/groups for each environment.
For example, SAP libraries are installed in the Development environment and Production environment. You specify the Development environment in your user profile. When you execute Studio Verify for your SAP project, Studio uses the libraries in the Development environment. You can then chose to deploy your project to the Development environment or Production environment.
To specify the environment from which Studio Verify retrieves connector libraries:
- Click your username, located in the upper right corner of the console. The User Profile dialog is displayed.
- Click Change Libraries Environment.
- Select a libraries environment from the list.
- Click Save.
Studio Cloud
In addition to the desktop version of Studio, you can launch and work with the Studio directly in the Cloud. This cloud version of Studio (Studio Cloud) allows you to create and deploy projects from the cloud.
Functionally, Studio Cloud is similar to Studio Desktop with a few differences listed here:
- The Recently Opened Project option is not available in Studio Cloud.
- The Save Remotely toolbar is not available in Studio Cloud, but is available in Studio Desktop when you are logged in to the Cloud.
- For Studio Cloud, when you select Save As Project [Cloud] or Rename Project [Cloud], the wizard does not display the location on the local file system where the wizard saves a project.
- Instead of a New Project option, Studio Cloud has a New Project Local option. The new option creates a new project on the local file system.
- Instead of a Open Project option, Studio Cloud has an Open Project Local option. The new option opens a project from the local file system.
- Instead of the Save Project option, Studio Cloud has two new options, which depend on whether you are logged in. If you are logged in, the Save Project [Cloud] options saves projects to the cloud. If you are not logged in, Save Project [Local] saves the project locally.
- Instead of the Save As option, Studio Cloud has a Save As to Local option.
- In Studio Cloud, you can select the Save As To Cloud option, which saves a copy of a project to the cloud.
- Instead of Rename Project, Studio Cloud has two new options, which depend on whether you are logged in. If you are logged in, the Rename Project [Cloud] option renames the project locally and remotely. If you are not logged in, the Rename Project [Local] option only renames the project locally.
Cloud TIPs Wizard
You can now access the TIP Wizard in the Cloud. The TIP Wizard steps you through an integration project template to help you quickly build your own integration project.
The Cloud Management Console allows you to search all the templates available in the Solutions Repository. When search results are returned, a check mark in the Certified column of the Solutions page identifies templates that Cast Iron has tested and certified. User rating information is also available in the Template Details pane. The final step in the TIP Wizard allows you to rate the template.
To launch the TIP Wizard:
- In the cloud, select the Create tab. The Solutions page is displayed.
- In the Search Templates by keyword(s) field, enter a keyword. For example: SAP.
- Click Search. All templates that match
the keyword display. Note: You can select the Advanced Search option to filtertemplates by first endpoint or second endpoint.
Click the appropriate template. The Templates Details pane is displayed.
Click the Create a Project Based on this Template link.
Secure Connector
The Secure Connector allows you to access the cloud using endpoints that sit behind your internal firewalls and transfers data using a secure protocol.