The previous chapters of this book focused on the components of Azure Stack to define and configure infrastructure/fabric and services of the private cloud. Just as with Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) and Azure Pack, those underlying components are not visible to the end user (tenant). They see an abstraction of them. The benefits of this approach are self-service, quick allocation, and the deallocation of pooled resources, standardization and automation/optimization.

In this chapter we will introduce the mechanism on how to make those components we created/configured in previous chapters available to the end user (tenants). The main topics are as follows:

• Considerations for creating a Plan and Offer
• Creating a Plan and an Offer
• Short introduction to Subscription