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Check public cloud features
Before you add a provider it is useful to be familiar with the use of the provider and the features that the platform supports.
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Check integrations
The following pages describe how the platform works with the public cloud providers.
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A standard account is not a partner or a reseller or an organization account. For partner, reseller, or organization accounts, see Onboard an Azure CSP or AWS organization account |
To add Abiquo public cloud integrations to an existing Abiquo platform:
Obtain your public cloud credentials for a standard account for compute and pricing/billing.
If you wish to display billing dashboard data, then there may be extra steps for some providers. See Display cloud provider billing data
Modify user roles to add public cloud. See Modify user roles to add public cloud
Create a public cloud region
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Reseller hierarchy
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Design your public cloud use case
Abiquo supports the following use cases for public cloud.
Reseller account in a reseller hierarchy for AWS partner accounts and Azure CSP accounts
Customers with compute access
Customers with billing only
Standard compute account for all providers
For compute access
For billing
You can only add one set of public cloud credentials per tenant enterprise.
For details of how you can use VCD credentials, see VMware vCloud Director integration.
Example privilege changes for adding public cloud
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Add tenants to public cloud
To add public cloud, you should obtain credentials for your cloud providers.
If you will be working as a cloud provider reseller and you do not already have a tenant hierarchy, create the tenant hierarchy following these steps.
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or edit a standard enterprise (with NO reseller or key node option):
For Credentials, enter credentials for public cloud providers
For billing only, for AWS, see Add a customer AWS account for billing only
For Properties, enter metadata, such as customer account IDs and billing dashboard configuration. See Display cloud provider billing data. You can also push enterprise properties to VM variables. Do not add confidential data.
Run billing: edit the enterprise and go to Credentials → Pricing and click the right arrow button, or go to the Billing tab, select the provider, and click Regenerate billing
If the credentials have compute capabilities, and there are VMs for the subscription, you can capture the VMs to manage them with Abiquo by onboarding their virtual network (to create a virtual datacenter in Abiquo). See Onboard from public cloud
To configure currency conversion for UI dashboard, see Configure billing dashboard currency conversions