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Introduction to Abiquo and AWS
The Abiquo Amazon EC2 integration is a hybrid cloud feature that enables our customers to add Amazon public cloud regions to the Abiquo platform as part of our agnostic public cloud management. With the Abiquo hybrid cloud platform you will be able to offer a service that is a federation of Abiquo private clouds and the public cloud. Cloud tenants can deploy virtual resources in public cloud regions or in Abiquo datacenters through the same award-winning user interface. You can control the use of public cloud resources in the same way as in the Abiquo Datacenter (quotas, limits, etc).
Amazon Regions are added as Abiquo public cloud regions. Abiquo manages public cloud regions using four of the Abiquo Remote Services. The remote services used in a public cloud region can be shared with other datacenters or public cloud regions. No NFS repository is required to use with a public cloud region.
Each Abiquo public cloud region corresponds to a single Region in Amazon EC2. Each Abiquo enterprise using the Amazon public cloud region should have its own Amazon account. Abiquo will validate your Amazon credentials (Access Key ID and Secret Access Key) with AWS. Each enterprise may register ONE set of credentials for the enterprise's AWS account.
When users create a virtual datacenter in the public cloud region, Abiquo works with Amazon EC2. Abiquo creates a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for each Abiquo virtual datacenter. By default, for each Amazon VPC, Abiquo creates a public subnet and a private subnet, which is a private connect network. The private subnet has an Internet gateway and access to the VPC from outside the cloud is through NAT or Elastic IPs via the public subnet. Elastic IPs are registered in Abiquo as floating IPs. Floating IPs are managed like public IPs but they do not belong to any Abiquo network. Within your virtual datacenter, you can create more Abiquo private networks (subnets in your VPC), which will enable you to deploy to different Availability Zones. The private subnets in the same availability zone as the public subnet will have internet access through the public subnet.
Virtual machines deployed in the VPC virtual datacenter are Amazon Instances. Add your public key to your Abiquo user before you deploy a virtual machine. Your Amazon instance will be created using your RSA public key to enable remote access. You will need the corresponding RSA private key to access the instance.
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Do not rename an Amazon instance in AWS or you will break the link between Abiquo and the virtual machine. If the link is broken, you will not be able to manage the virtual machine with Abiquo again. Do not delete the tags created by Abiquo. If you need to manage your Abiquo Elastic IPs in Amazon, synchronize them to update changes in Abiquo or you may see unexpected results. |
How Abiquo Creates a Virtual Private Cloud
In the AWS integration, Abiquo creates VPCs with NAT support with a public subnet, and allows virtual machines on different subnets to be connected to the same load balancer. Abiquo now supports the AWS gateway address as the first address in the network.
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AWS reserves five IP addresses in your private networks. It reserves the first four IP addresses and the last IP address of the VPC private connect network. These IP addresses are not displayed or used by Abiquo. Therefore the first available IP address in a network that is defined to start with address 0, will be address 5, and the and the gateway address will be address 1.
For example, in the default_private_network with network address 192.168.0.0, the following addresses would be reserved or used as the gateway.
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If the user adds multiple IPs in the same subnet, Abiquo adds them to the same elastic network interface. And if the IPs are in a different subnet, Abiquo adds them to a different elastic network interface. For information about Elastic Network Interfaces, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-eni.html
How Abiquo Creates a Virtual Private Cloud
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AWS Features
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AWS Synchronization
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AWS Firewalls
See Manage Firewalls
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- Set Abiquo Configuration Properties#amazon for the healthy threshold of machines in AWS in the abiquo.properties file.
- The Load balancer UI options can be configured in the client-config-custom.json file. See Configure Abiquo UI
- The specifications of the load balancer integration are described in the following table.
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