Application types and specifications¶

This chapter describes the available types and infrastructure.

Types of applications¶

Developer Cockpit allows you to add the following types of applications:

• Standard: The standard type of application will be hosted in the Launchpad after the handover is done. Such types of applications provide a user interface for their users.
• Insights Hub Monitor Plugin: The created applications will be visible in Insights Hub Monitor.
• Mobile: The mobile type of application represents a mobile native application connected to Insights Hub. It will be available via your self-written app on your device. Also it supports app and universal links
• API: API application is not possible to use on their own as it always requires one or multiple depending on frontend.
• Mendix-based applications: Mendix is a software platform that provides tools for building, testing, and deploying applications. This feature is applicable only for Cloud Foundry and self-hosted applications. When your application is marked with Mendix feature, then the operator gets informed upon the handover that a Mendix license is required to run this application. For more information on Mendix, see Developing Mendix Apps.

When applications are added, they are available in Developer Cockpit dashboard. After the registration of the applications, the standard UI applications are available in Launchpad and the Insights Hub Monitor plugin applications are available in the Insights Hub Monitor dashboard.

Mobile type applications are available exclusively for iOS and Android mobile devices.

Types of application infrastructure¶

Cloud Foundry: These applications will be hosted in the provided Cloud Foundry space. It supports applications that consist of one or more components. Each component is represented by a Cloud Foundry application that requires to be run within Cloud Foundry Space. Currently, only Cloud Foundry applications that have a single Cloud Foundry manifest configuration are supported.

Self-hosted: Developer Cockpit provides a platform to integrate your own applications with Insights Hub. The self-hosted applications will be hosted on the private infrastructure.

None (without infrastructure): This type of infrastructure does not require any separate backend. Only mobile type of applications can be hosted here, where all logic is managed in the mobile application. However, they are exclusively available only for iOS and Android mobile devices.

Supported infrastructure for each type of application¶

The following table describes the supported infrastructure for each type of application:

States for an application¶

Any application must go through the following states in sequential order in Developer Cockpit, before being available in Launchpad:

• Adding application
• In Development
• Registration
• Preparation in progress
• Waiting for approval
• Ready for assignment, in case of passed applications
• Application handover
• Check failed, in case of failed applications
• Archived, if the application is not required for time being

For self-hosted applications, once an application reaches the "Ready for assignment" state, they can be assigned to operators. This is because the self-hosted applications are third-party applications and have URLs that are registered with Insights Hub for execution. If any errors are detected during executions, they just require fixes. Hence, no further checks are required after the "Ready for assignment" state, unlike Cloud Foundry (CF) applications.

States of handover¶

In "Dashboard" for the applications:

• In-Development: The first state is the application being in the "In-Development" phase. An application will move to this phase after its creation. The application needs to be then registered.
• Preparation in progress: This is the second phase of the process. After pushing the binaries into the application, the application moves to the state of initiating the upload.
• Waiting for approval: This is the third phase of the application handover. An application reaches this phase when its metadata information is submitted successfully.
• Check in progress: This is the last successful phase before pushing the application to the "Promoted Apps" tab. After an application is ready for its upload, Developer Cockpit submits its requirements for getting approval from the administrator of the requested service plans. You can successfully submit the application for approval only if the application has one role and one scope added in it. The application will be uploaded successfully.
• Check failed: An application goes to this state by the following reasons:
  • Mismatch in meta-data
  • Risk found while scanning the uploaded files

You will get a notification in Developer Cockpit and also via failure mail.

In "Promoted Apps" for the applications:

• Ready for assignment: If the upload request of the application is successful, the submitted application is approved, the application is pushed to the "Promoted Apps" with is new state. The application is now ready to be assigned to operators.