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Azure Stack Hub Marketplace overview

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The Azure Stack Hub Marketplace is a collection of services, apps, and resources customized for Azure Stack Hub. Resources include networks, virtual machines (VMs), storage, and more. Use Azure Stack Hub Marketplace to create new resources and deploy new apps or browse and choose the items you want to use. To use a marketplace item, users must subscribe to an offer that grants them access to that item.

As an Azure Stack Hub operator, you decide which items to add (publish) to Azure Stack Hub Marketplace. You can publish items such as databases, app services, and more. Publishing makes items visible to all your users. You can publish custom items that you create, or you can publish items from a growing list of Azure Marketplace items. When you publish an item to Azure Stack Hub Marketplace, users can see it within five minutes.

Caution

All gallery item artifacts, including images and JSON files, are accessible without authentication after making them available in the Azure Stack Hub Marketplace. For more considerations when publishing custom marketplace items, see Create and publish a Marketplace item.

To open the Marketplace, in the administrator portal select + Create a resource.

Create a resource in Azure Stack Hub administrator portal

Marketplace items

An Azure Stack Hub Marketplace item is a service, app, or resource that your users can download and use. All Azure Stack Hub Marketplace items are visible to all your users, including administrative items such as plans and offers. These administrative items don't require a subscription to view, but are non-functional to users.

Every Marketplace item has the following:

  • An Azure Resource Manager template for resource provisioning.
  • Metadata, such as strings, icons, and other marketing collateral.
  • Formatting information to display the item in the portal.

Every item published to the Azure Stack Hub Marketplace uses the Azure Gallery Package (.azpkg) format. Add deployment or runtime resources (code, .zip files with software, or VM images) to Azure Stack Hub separately, not as part of the Marketplace item.

Azure Stack Hub converts images to sparse files when they download from Azure, or when you upload custom images. This process adds time when adding an image, but saves space and speeds up the deployment of those images. Conversion only applies to new images. Existing images are not changed.

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