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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:

1. Go to Users → Edit enterprise

2. Go to Credentials

3. For a provider with credentials that supports user creation, click Create user.
   The platform will send the following to the cloud provider:

   • Details from your user account, including the username and email

   • An automatically generated password

     • The administrator can configure the generation of the password with the "abiquo.guest.password.length" and "abiquo.guest.password.exclude" properties.

   The platform will create an event with the enterprise ID, user ID, user email, date/time, and cloud provider.
   The user in the provider will have the following permissions: 

   • Azure: built-in Owner role.

   • AWS: in the same groups as the current user.

   • vCloud: by default the same as the current user, so usually an Organization Administrator

     • The administrator can configure the role to assign with the "abiquo.vcd.org.userRoleName" property

4. The platform displays the user credentials only once and it does not store these credentials

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   To access the cloud provider portal, click user portal link or portal link

   • If you click portal link, on the Edit enterprise dialog, then you will need to enter your account ID and password in the cloud provider

To store tenant details and metadata, use enterprise properties. The platform also uses enterprise properties to configure features and integrations.

Enterprise properties can have different types to enable you to use properties in hierarchical organisation models (such as reseller models). Administrators can use types to reserve some properties for internal use, and enable reseller or enterprise admins to view or manage other properties.

You can pass enterprise properties to VMs using cloud-init. An example use case for this feature is to call an external Windows License or AD server and automatically assign your VMs to the appropriate AD group when they deploy.

• VM variables and template variables have priority over enterprise properties with the same name

To add enterprise properties as VM variables when you create your VMs:

1. Create an enterprise property with a Key called "vm_variables_csv"

2. For the Value, enter a list of regular expressions in CSV format

   1. The platform will try to match the expression with each property key string.
      For example, for the following vm_variables_cv

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      aa, bb.*, .*cc.*, .*dd

      the platform will create VM variables with any property that is

      • named "aa"

      • starts with "bb"

      • contains "cc"

      • ends with "dd"

The platform will create VMs with the selected VM variables.

Remember that users can edit the VM variables before they deploy the VMs.

See also VM variables