Getting set up to sell deployable architectures

Before you begin

• Verify that you're using a Pay-As-You-Go or Subscription account. To check which type of account you're using, go to Manage > Account > Account settings in the IBM Cloud console.

  It's recommended that you use an account that was created with a functional ID to ensure your continued access to the products that are onboarded in the account.

• Verify that you're assigned the administrator role on all account management services and all IAM-enabled services. See Assigning access to account management services and Managing access to resources.

• The only deployable architecture type that IBM Cloud supports currently is Terraform.

Provide your company name

1. In the IBM Cloud console, click the Navigation Menu icon > Partner Center > Overview > Get started.

2. Enter the name of your company as you want it to be displayed in the IBM Cloud catalog.

   The company name doesn't need to be finalized. You can update it later from the My company page in Partner Center if necessary.

Create a test environment

You, or a member of your team, uses the test environment to onboard your product, and validate that it's ready to be published in the IBM Cloud catalog. Your test environment includes a private catalog in which you import your product from an external repository.

1. Click Create in the Create your test environment section on the Get started page.
2. Enter the name of your private catalog, and click Create. The private catalog and its contents are visible only to the users that you choose.

Set up team access

If you want to enlist team members to help with the onboarding process, you need to assign them specific levels of IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM) access. To streamline the process, you can organize your team members into a single entity by adding them to an access group.

1. Click Assign in the Assign access section on the Get started page.

2. Enter the name of the access group, and click Create. Members of this group are assigned the following roles by default:

   • Administrator on the catalog management service
   • Editor on the Partner Center - Sell service
   • Editor on the user management service
   • Editor on the IAM access groups service
   • Viewer on all account management services

   For more information about the actions associated with each role, see Actions and roles for account management services.

3. Click Let's go.

Invite team members to your account

After you create your access group, you can add team members to the group by inviting them to your account.

1. Go to Partner Center > My team.
2. Click Invite users.
3. Enter the email address of the user that you want to invite.
4. Click the checkbox if the user that you invite is a technical team member who will be doing technical tasks.
5. Click Invite.

Review and submit the digital platform reseller agreement

You are required to review and submit the IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement, which sets the terms and conditions under which providers can onboard and sell products in IBM Cloud. Or, you can upload a custom digital provider agreement in .pdf, .doc, or .docx file format.

Custom digital provider agreements must be reviewed and approved by IBM, which increases the time it takes for you to complete the onboarding process. The uploaded files are scanned for viruses, which might take a few minutes to complete. If a virus is detected, it is recommended to run another virus scan on your file, and then try uploading it again.

Complete the following steps to review and submit the IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement:

1. Go to Partner Center > My company.
2. Click Edit.
3. Choose I plan to offer usage-based pricing plans from the Agreements section.
4. Click the IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement link to review the agreement.
5. Select I read and agree to the IBM Digital Platform Reseller Agreement, and click Save.

Next steps

Now that you completed the getting started tasks, you're ready to continue with the onboarding process.

To get an overview of all the tasks involved in the process, see the checklist for selling deployable architectures on IBM Cloud.