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Independent Service Vendor

Independent Service Vendor (ISV) is the role used by software vendors. ISVs sell their managed software services using xpanse.

The supported use cases for ISV is the same irrespective of the mode in which xpanse is used. The only expected difference for ISV between the xpanse modes is how the xpanse APIs are accessed.

Cloud provider integrated mode​

In case of cloud provider integrated mode, ISVs will use the cloud provider specific console and API end points to access the xpanse APIs to register their services.

Access​

ISVs use the cloud provider's console and API using his/her IAM credentials to register their native managed services using xpanse.

App store mode​

In case of app store mode, the xpanse uses the APIs hosted on the app store's management area to sell services on any cloud provider they wish and is supported by the app store

Access​

Accessing the app store depends on the auth provider used by the app store. ISV needs an account based on the app store setup and must have the isv role associated with it.

Additionally, if ISV wishes sell service-vendor hosted service, then the specific tenant credentials must be configured in the app store. This depends on the kind of credentials supported by the respective cloud provider in it's xpanse plugin.