This page is an overview of what you need to do to distribute and maintain a container image product on Cloud Marketplace.
Before you begin
- Review the open source compliance recommendations and restrictions.
- Create your
Google Cloud project and grant the Project Editor role to
cloud-commerce-marketplace-onboarding@twosync-src.google.com. - Complete the Project Info form that the Cloud Marketplace team sends you. To fill out the form, you might need to request access to it.
After you send us the required information, we give you access to Producer Portal, which you use in the next step, technical integration.
Overview of technical integration
As a partner, you use Producer Portal to create Google Cloud Marketplace products. You enter product details, configure what images are shown, and preview how your listing appears in Cloud Marketplace.
Users pull container images from a Google-owned container registry repository,
marketplace.gcr.io/YOUR-PARTNER-PUBLISHED-NAME/YOUR-PRODUCT-PUBLISHED-NAME.
You give Google your product images by using a staging repository with the
suffix gcr.io, which you provide during product creation. You specify which
Container Registry tags you'd like to present in Cloud Marketplace.
When your product is published, Google copies the specified images from your
staging gcr.io repository to the official marketplace.gcr.io repository,
from which users download your container images.
Requirements for container image products
Your product's container image must contain the following annotation in its image manifest:
com.googleapis.cloudmarketplace.product.service.name=services/SERVICE_NAME
Replace SERVICE_NAME with the name of your service. To find your service name, refer to the table of products on the Overview page in Producer Portal. For more information about annotations, see the Open Container Initiative's documentation of annotations on GitHub.
Best practices for container image products
We recommend the following best practices for all container image products:
- Create Getting Started documentation
- Add User Support documentation
Reviewing and launching
After you submit your product, cloud-partner-eng will review your submission
and work with you to resolve any issues before approving it. When the product
is approved, it is launched within 15 minutes of approval.