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Add public cloud credentials for a tenant
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See Add public cloud credentials
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To work with a public cloud region, each enterprise should have its own public cloud account for each cloud provider. All the users in the tenant will work with this same account.
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Before you begin:
Obtain credentials to access the cloud provider's API. For Abiquo's basic guides, see Obtain public cloud credentials. Always check your provider documentation too.
To add public cloud credentials:
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Go to Users → select and edit enterprise → Credentials → Public
Enter the Credentials as described here
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Select the Provider: Some providers may require different credentials for groups of regions
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Enter the credentials as described in the table below
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Click Add account. The platform will validate your credentials with the cloud provider and save them
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Finish editing the enterprise and click Save
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Public cloud credentials table
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Description
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Compute Compute access
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Access key ID
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For compute access, identity to access the cloud provider API. For example, a username, API access key ID, subscription ID and certificate, or another account identifier.
For Azure, the format is subscription-id#app-id#tenant-id
For Google the format is project_id#client_id#client_email#private_key_id
For OCI, the format is tenancy#user#fingerprint
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Secret access key
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Key to access the cloud provider API. For example, an API key or other API credential. For Azure, enter the password for the app. For OCI enter the private key in PEM format.
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Also use for pricing
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Use this credential to access pricing data in the provider and for cost usage data for billing dashboards. For example, to get hardware profile prices from AWS or to obtain billing data from OCI. For Azure, add a separate pricing credential in a different format. The API user must have pricing and billing permissions in the provider
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Billing only
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Only for billing
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If your customer is part of your reseller hierarchy AND their public cloud account is under your reseller or partner account AND they do not require compute access, then mark this checkbox AND enter the Access key ID as follows:
For Azure, the format is subscription-id##tenant-id
For AWS, the format is account-id
For these customers, for the Secret access key, you can enter a random string
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Delete public cloud credentials
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When your enterprise has credentials for a public cloud provider, you can create a user account in a cloud provider. From here you can also click a link to access the cloud provider portal. Abiquo displays the public cloud account identifiers on the Credentials tab.
To create a user:
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To store tenant details and metadata, by setting enterprise properties:
  To edit a property's Value, click the pencil edit button. And to delete a property, click the trash bin delete button.
To set default enterprises properties and values for your users, see Predefine enterprise properties for the UI . For details of how to manage enterprise properties via the API, see Update enterprise properties via API . To add tenant metadata to VMs, see Inject enterprise properties as VM variables. |
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