To install the platform, see Installation.
Abiquo concepts
As a true hybrid cloud system, Abiquo manages private and public clouds through a single user interface. It enables cloud administrators to manage the complexity of dealing with resources in multiple private datacenters and public cloud regions, and to control their use by policies. Cloud Administrators deliver simplicity to cloud consumers by granting them resources and allowing self-service in the cloud. This way, administrators remain in control of the physical resources, and consumers are abstracted from the location of the resources.
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Simplicity is delivered through the Apps Library. The Apps library provides virtual machine templates to users to consume the cloud resources in the virtual datacenters. It also provides application blueprints for a group of virtual machines to make it easy for users to create new applications. Access to virtual machine templates and blueprints is controlled by resource scopes, which are tenant access control lists defined by cloud administrators. This enables the Abiquo platform to provide Software as a Service (SaaS) on top of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Enterprise administrators may upload their own images to the Apps Library, allowing them to bring their own software onto the Infrastructure platform.
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Abiquo offers the building blocks for a customized cloud service, with functionality delivered through the Abiquo UI and integration points. However, Abiquo depends on the cloud infrastructure and it is important to understand where Abiquo sits in the overall environment. Abiquo The platform manages resources in public cloud and private datacenters, which may be distinct physical locations or logical groups of infrastructure within the same location.
The Abiquo Cloud Management cloud management platform itself consists of an Abiquo Server (providing central management) and a Remote Services Server for each Datacenter. The platform presents a number of services to the cloud consumers to provide cloud services, and enable the use of integration and automation solutions on top of them:
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