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Cloud users can follow this guide This page describes how to add credentials for public cloud for their your own tenant, with a standard account or as a customer of a reseller. To add credentials to a different enterprise, go to Users → edit an enterprise → Credentials. |
Your enterprise (cloud tenant) should have its own public cloud account or subscription for each cloud provider, and it should not cannot share an account these with any other tenants. You can add your credentials from an option on the User icon menu.
Before you begin, check your provider's documentation and pricing. You will need credentials to access the cloud provider's API. We provide basic guides (see Obtain public cloud credentials) but you should always check with your provider.
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Privileges: Manage provider credentials |
Open the public cloud credentials dialog
To add public cloud credentials for your tenant:
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In the bottom left corner of the screen, select the User icon, to open the User icon menu
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Access key ID: for example, this may be a Username, API access key ID or Subscription ID or another account identifier
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Select Edit credentials
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For compute credentials, select Public
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To add credentials for a different tenant, go to Users → edit Enterprise → Credentials.
Add a cloud provider account
To add public cloud credentials for a tenant, there are different steps if you will use compute and biling dashboards, or billing dashboards only
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For compute credentials, go to Public
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Select the Provider
If your provider has different credentials for specific regions, select the appropriate region, for example "Amazon (CHINA)"
For compute access, enter your credentials to access the cloud provider's API for compute features
Select Public
Select the Provider. There may be a separate provider for regions requiring different credentials
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To add credentials for compute with optional billing and pricing:
Enter the Access key ID:
For AWS, enter the Access key ID
For Azure standard accounts and CSP customers, the format is
subscription-id#app-id#tenant-idFor
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GCP the format is
project_id#client_id#client_email#private_key_idFor OCI the format is
tenancy#user#fingerprintSecret access key:
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this may be an API key, App secret key,
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API credential,
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App password, etc.
Optionally, for Amazon, GCP, or
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OCI billing, select Also use for pricing
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For Azure, to add billing credentials, go to Pricing.
See Add public cloud pricing credentials for a tenant
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Optionally, for Amazon or Azure, select Only for billing
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To add credentials for billing only with no compute access:
For a standard AWS customer account, do the steps at Add a customer AWS account for billing only
For a customer of an Azure CSP or an Amazon organization do these steps.
Enter the Access key ID as follows:
For Azure, the format is
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subscription-id##tenant-idFor AWS, the format is
account-id
For the Secret access key, you can enter a random string
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Click Add account. Abiquo will validate your credentials with the cloud provider before saving them.
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The platform will display the cloud provider credentials should then display in the Current credentials area. Optionally enter separate pricing credentials on the Pricing tab. See Add public cloud pricing credentials for a tenant
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