5. Organizing for vCloud Operations : 5.3 vCloud Tenant Operations : 5.3.1 Relationship to Application Development
   
5.3.1 Relationship to Application Development
vCloud Tenant Operations interacts with application development teams from the following perspectives:
*Application development team as a customer.
*Service development.
*Production operations.
The application development team is a customer of vCloud Tenant Operations. It uses a service, which can provide virtual resources for deploying a development environment or a service in the form of PaaS. vCloud Tenant Operations monitors the environment for availability and is also involved in the release of the application as a service in the vCloud environment.
For service development, vCloud Tenant Operations interacts with an application development team if a custom application is needed to provide the service. Application development is seen as a partner (as well as a customer) in the service development process. vCloud Tenant Operations works with application development to make sure the application is properly instrumented for meaningful monitoring, security, and metering (for showback or chargeback). In addition, the teams work closely together to release the service into production.
The final perspective is production operations. In this case, vCloud Tenant Operations interacts with an application development team, if needed, in a Tier 3 support capacity.