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- Tenant Engagement and Workload Evaluation:
- In this phase the request from the tenant to host a workload on the Cloud Infrastructure platform is assessed and a decision made on whether to proceed with the hosting request.
- This phase may also involve the tenant accessing a pre-staging environment to perform their own evaluation and/or pre-staging activities in preparation for later onboarding phases.
- Workload Packaging:
- The main outcome of this phase is to produce the workload deployable image and the deployment manifests (like TOSCA blueprints or HEAT templates or Helm charts) that will define the Cloud Infrastructure service attributes for the workload.
- The service design workload packaging can be performed by the tenant, through self-service capabilities or by the Cloud Infrastructure Operations team.
- Workload Validation and Certification:
- In this phase the workload is deployed and tested to validate it against the service design and other Operator specific acceptance criteria, as required.
- Workload validation and certification should be automated using CI/CD toolsets / pipelines and Test as a Service (TaaS) capabilities.
- Publish Workload:
- After the workload is certified the final onboarding process phase is for it to be published to the Cloud Infrastructure production catalogue from where it can be instantiated on the Cloud Infrastructure platform by the tenant.
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