Step 2 - Orgs and Apps

Chapter 2. Organization and Application Management

2.1. Organizational Structure
2.2. Creating an Organization
2.3. The Application to Application Link
2.4. Creating an Application
2.5. Organization, Application, and Inheritance
2.6. The Power of Inheritance
2.7. Avoiding Policy Micromanagement
2.8. Permissions and Roles
2.9. Summary

You’ve likely heard that Sonatype CLM provides you with information about the components inside your applications. In addition to that information, you will see whether or not that component meets the rules for component usage that your organization has established - in other words, your policy. In order to provide that information however, there needs to be a link between your application and Sonatype CLM. But, how do we create that link, and where do we start?

Well, let’s do a little introspection, and take a look at the idea of organizational structure.