Microsoft System Center: Cloud Management with App Controller

CHAPTER 2Managing private clouds

Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 App Controller adds self-service management capabilities to your on-premises private clouds via an intuitive web-based GUI. In Chapter 1, we discussed that self-service management is a key ingredient for enabling a standardized approach for deploying applications in private and public clouds. In this chapter, we’ll focus our attention specifically on private clouds. We’ll walk through the steps of configuring and leveraging App Controller so that users, such as other administrators and developers on our IT teams, to whom we’ve delegated private cloud resources can easily deploy and manage workloads using nothing more than a web browser.

Specifically, we’ll be targeting the following ...