Apps for other organizations

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Is it possible to create an app that is available for other organizations after publish? sort of a service that can be used by any organization that is interested in? thanks in advance for any help!

[ursboller · Accepted solution]

Hi @ursboller 

In our current release, each Firefly app can only be deployed and accessed within the same organization. While we have considered the ISV angle (where an ISV can build and sell an app / a service to be used by multiple orgs), we currently don't have a timeline for supporting this ootb. 

If you have immediate need to use the same app for a few different orgs, you can potentially deploy the same code into different organizations using different credentials. However, you will need to manually manage this process as of now. 

Hope this helps!

Sarah

[ursboller · Accepted solution]

thanks @sarahxxu

my use case was to build a small app that could be used by many different orgs (basically anybody interested in using the app). if this is not possible, I need to either wait or think about another solution ...

[sarahxxu · Accepted solution]

@ursbollerif this app is not proprietary, you can maintain the code on GitHub as an open source project and just put in set up instructions for anyone who's interested to set this up in their org! 

[ursboller · Accepted solution]

@sarahxxu thanks for the idea! but this would still involve other orgs to setup an install and update process. I was thinking about an app that is available with a simple "activate" without a lot of coding...

[sarahxxu · Accepted solution]

@ursbollerhow about writing an "installation" or "update" script using Adobe I/O CLI?

You can ask users to 1) create credentials in Console and generate a file, 2) run your script to install or to update the app using those credentials.

Other than bash script, this can also be done with GitHub actions -- see https://github.com/AdobeDocs/project-firefly/blob/master/guides/ci_cd_for_firefly_apps.md for some of the OOTB shared GitHub actions that we have created! The users just need to set up the GitHub actions with their credentials and run it. 

[ursboller · Accepted solution]

@sarahxxu awesome! thanks for this idea. Will wait if I get the access and if I am able to create such an app (with my little knowledge about all that cloud stuff....). maybe I'll just give it a try ... THANKS!