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Open Infrastructure view by clicking the servers icon at the top of the main menu
Go to Public
Click the + add button at the bottom of the Public cloud regions list
Enter the Name of your public cloud region
Select the Provider
Select the Region to add. You can add more than one region
Click Next
Select the Remote services. Abiquo uses Remote services to connect to the providers and manage the cloud.
In the first IP address box, click the down arrow and select the Remote service URL from the pull-down list, or enter the URL of your Monolithic server
Click the link to Duplicate IP addresses at the top of the popup
Click Check all to check the connection to the remote services
Click Save
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Go to Users and edit the tenant enterprise
To allow users of the tenant enterprise to deploy in the public cloud region, go to Datacenters, and check that the public cloud region is in the Allowed datacenters list. If not, drag it into the list.
Go to Credentials → Public
Select the Provider
Enter the Access key and the Secret access key. For more details, see Obtain AWS credentials
Click Add account
Click Save
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Open the Catalogue view by clicking the Catalogue icon
Select Public
Select the public cloud region
Click the import template button
Enter the ID of a template to import, or a Name text, for example
Linux, because we recommend that you use a Linux template.Optionally, filter by template providers, for example, use the
Canonicalprovider and search for anubuntutemplate.Click Search
Select a Template to import and click the import symbol beside the template
If your template has terms of use, accept them now or when you first deploy a VM from the template.
This requires the privilege to
Manage virtual machine template terms of useand it enables programmatic deployment of the template for your Azure subscription.If you then disable programmatic deployment in the portal but you would like to deploy the template, you will need to delete it from the platform and import it again.
To add default user details for remote access, select and edit the template
Go to Advanced
Optionally, select a Guest setup mode
Select the template Operating system. For the latest version, do not set the OS version
Enter a Username. For Linux, enter
root. For Windows, enterAdministratorand a password with at least 12 characters
Click Save
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Create a resource group
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To go to myCloud → Virtual datacenters, click the cloud button
Go to the Global section
Select the Azure cloud provider
In Resource groups,click the + add button
Complete the dialog as described below
The Name must be unique in the subscription, which means in the enterprise
Select the Region that will store the metadata of the resource group
Click Save
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To open the myCloud Virtual datacenters view, click the cloud icon
Click the + add button at the bottom of the Virtual Datacenters list
Select Create virtual datacenter
Enter a Name, and select the Public cloud region
Select the Resource group
Click Save
To use VMs with a basic SKU load balancer, in your virtual datacenter, go to Network and create an Availability set
Select the virtual datacenter and in the Virtual Appliances pane, click the + add button and enter the Name of the virtual appliance then click Save.
The virtual appliance you create will display in the Virtual Appliances list.
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The list of available and compatible templates displays in the dialog when you create a VM in your virtual appliance.
To connect to your VM in AWS, you will need to add a public IP address (an AWS Elastic IP), as well as a private IP address in the public subnet.
Click Open under the Virtual appliance name to go into your virtual appliance
To create a VM, click Create virtual machine and select a VM template
For the Name, enter a user-friendly name for the VM that meets provider criteria
Select an appropriate Hardware profile for your VM
Select the Availability set
Click Save
On the VM icon from the options menu, select Edit
Click Network → select Private networks
Drag the Auto-generated IP label into the NICs pane.
Click Network → Public → Purchase public IP
Then on the Purchase public IPs popup, click the + add button
Select an IP address and click Add
Drag the public IP into the NICs pane
Configure the VM network connections
If you would like to connect to a VM in public cloud, you will need to add a public IP address, as well as a private IP address in a public subnet (in AWS and OCI). If you don't configure the network, by default Abiquo will add a private IP address only and you probably won't be able to connect to your VM.
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On the VM icon from the options menu, select Edit
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Click Network → select Private networks. Select a Private network.
In Amazon select subnet-xxxx, which is the public subnet. In OCI, also select a public subnet, which has an internet gateway. In GCP, select the subnet of the global network.
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Drag the Auto-generated IP label into the NICs pane.
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Click Network → Public → Purchase public IP
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Then on the Purchase public IPs popup, click the + add button
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Select an IP address and click Add
Drag the public IP into the NICs pane
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Azure
Configure the VM firewall for public cloud
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