What it is
The App Portal is where the applications come from. IGEL OS 12’s base image deliberately contains none, so the Citrix client, the Omnissa Horizon client, the Azure Virtual Desktop client and the browsers are all selected in the portal and pushed to devices or device groups from there.
It is part of the IGEL cloud services.
Applications as containers
Applications are delivered as containers, managed apart from the operating system. So a client update is a package of its own and no longer has to be scheduled against an OS release.
In IGEL OS 11 the VDI client version is tied to the OS release.
What to watch
An estate with no route to the internet does not reach the portal. IGEL’s answer is the distributed app repository, where devices pull packages from a local server instead, and that is an Enterprise-licence feature. There is also peer update, where a device pulls from another device on the same network, and that one is in every edition.
Which of the two you need depends on how the network is separated.
