To offer an AI agent product through Google Cloud Marketplace, you must integrate your product with Google Cloud. This technical integration involves a number of steps across your product's backend and frontend.
Before you begin
- Verify that your Partner Engineer has enabled access to the Cloud Commerce Partner Procurement API. After your Partner Engineer has granted you access to the Partner Procurement API, you don't need to take any additional steps to enable the API in Google Cloud console.
Backend integration
You must integrate your app's backend with the following Google APIs and services:
Integrate with Pub/Sub to receive notifications from Cloud Marketplace, such as when a user signs up for your product. Your Partner Engineer creates a Pub/Sub topic that you must subscribe to for notifications.
For information on subscribing to a Pub/Sub topic, see the Pub/Sub Subscriber Guide.
Integrate with the Partner Procurement API. This lets you do the following:
- Create accounts for customers.
- Link customers' accounts with their Cloud Marketplace purchase.
- Update the linked accounts when users change or cancel their subscription plans.
If you've chosen a usage-based pricing model, integrate with Service Control to report usage information.
For detailed information on integrating your app's backend with Cloud Marketplace, see Configure your app's backend.
For an example of integrating the backend of a basic product with Cloud Marketplace and a walkthrough of the sample code, see the codelab for integrating a software as a service (SaaS) product.
Frontend integration
In your app's frontend, you must set up the following integrations:
Provide a sign up page to sign up accounts for new customers who buy your product through Cloud Marketplace. When users visit this page, Google sends a JSON Web Token (JWT) containing the user's account ID. You use this account ID to link the user's account in your product with their Google Account, and also for Identity and Access Management (IAM).
Provide a login page for your customers.
Optionally, you can choose to:
Integrate single sign-on (SSO), so that your customers can sign into your app using their Google Accounts. If you integrate SSO, when users sign in by using SSO, Google sends a JSON Web Token (JWT) containing information about the user for you to verify.
For detailed information on integrating your app's frontend with Cloud Marketplace, see Integrate your app's frontend.
Integrate with Google APIs
You can integrate your AI agent product with Google APIs by using client libraries, which give you programmatic access to Google products. The client libraries are available for most popular development platforms, such as Java, Python, and .NET.
Install the client libraries for your platform from the API Client Libraries page. With the client libraries, you can:
- Connect to your Pub/Sub subscription, and handle incoming messages.
- If you chose usage-based pricing, connect to the Service Control API to report usage data to Google.
To create linked accounts for customers, and to send and receive updates about user accounts, you must also integrate with the Partner Procurement API. Because the Partner Procurement API is restricted, you must build a new client library for the API.
To build a new client library, you must install the Google client libraries, and build a new library from the API discovery document. The discovery document for the Partner Procurement API is at this URL:
https://cloudcommerceprocurement.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v1
For example, if you're building a Python client library for the
Partner Procurement API, use the
build()
method. For sample code that builds a client library, see the
codelab samples on GitHub.
What's next
- Configure your app's backend.
- Integrate your app's frontend.
- Publish your AI agent to Cloud Marketplace.