Service Catalog makes curated, approved solutions discoverable within a Google Cloud organization while keeping their distribution under the control of cloud admins.
What is Service Catalog?
Service Catalog enables developers and cloud admins to make their solutions discoverable to their own organization’s internal enterprise users. While making solutions discoverable, cloud admins can also control the distribution of solutions and ensure compliance and governance.
A cloud admin creates a catalog under a Google Cloud organization. The catalog contains a cloud admin-curated list of trustworthy solutions and is then shared with users in the organization. All other users in the same organization can see the shared catalog and its solutions, if they have permission.
Core Features
- Catalog management: Create multiple catalogs and share them at different folder and project levels
- Curation: Add further Service Catalog cloud admins to create and curate content
- Content types: Support for reference links and Cloud Deployment Manager templates
- Single point of entry: One place for cloud admins and users alike
- Governance: Respect for organizational policies and Deployment Manager constraints
Typical Use Cases
Distributing approved images and environments
Providing vetted development and test environments so teams do not have to hunt through email or a wiki for the current version.
Governance with self-service
Users deploy solutions themselves, but only from a catalog curated by admins.
Tiered availability
Different catalogs for different folder or project levels when not every solution is approved for every area.
Keeping content current
Updating catalog entries centrally so users always launch the latest version.
Benefits
- Free of charge: Using Service Catalog itself incurs no cost per the official pricing page
- Controlled distribution: Admins decide which solutions are available to whom
- Fewer support requests: One central entry point instead of scattered wikis and mailing lists
- Governance built in: Organizational policies and Deployment Manager constraints continue to apply
Integration with innFactory
As a certified Google Cloud partner, innFactory supports you in setting up Service Catalog: structuring catalogs, curating solutions, and aligning them with your organization policies.
Contact us for a consultation on Service Catalog.
Available Tiers & Options
Standard
- Free to use
- Multiple catalogs, shareable at different folder and project levels
- Respects organizational policies and Deployment Manager constraints
- Support covers reference links and Cloud Deployment Manager templates
- Costs still arise from the resources that are actually deployed
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Service Catalog?
Service Catalog enables developers and cloud admins to make their solutions discoverable to their own organization's internal enterprise users. While making solutions discoverable, cloud admins can also control the distribution of solutions and ensure compliance and governance.
How is Service Catalog structured?
A cloud admin creates a catalog under a Google Cloud organization. The catalog contains an admin-curated list of trustworthy solutions. The catalog is then shared with users in the organization; all other users in the same organization can see the shared catalog and its solutions, if they have permission.
What does Service Catalog cost?
According to the official pricing page, all use of Service Catalog is free of charge. You may be charged for other Google Cloud resources used in your project, such as Compute Engine instances or Cloud Storage.
What content can be added to a catalog?
Per the documentation, Service Catalog supports reference links and Cloud Deployment Manager templates.
How does governance apply in Service Catalog?
Per the documentation, Service Catalog respects organizational policies and Deployment Manager constraints, complementing the control over the solutions offered in the catalog.
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