Abiquo is a fully integrated multicloud management platform with a single cloud console for resource management and cloud budget and cost control.
Screenshot: Abiquo resource management in private cloud
Screenshot: Abiquo dashboard for public cloud cost management
Abiquo is cloud agnostic and it supports popular cloud providers with a consistent user experience, including:
- VMware vCenter clusters and hosts
- VMware vCloud Director
- Amazon AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Abiquo's own cloud boosting features sit above the provider clouds and offer a true multicloud experience that is beyond cloud native, and includes:
- User customizable dashboard for resource management and cost control
- Agentless centralized monitoring with multicloud alerts and notifications
- Automation with action plans that can also notify and send webhooks
- Workload driven autoscaling
- Multicloud budgets with notifications
- Blueprints for multicloud launch
Abiquo was designed from the ground up to be extensible by integration, so you can build PAAS, managed services, and more.
For example, to build Managed Services, you can take advantage of advanced features such as:
- Restrict access to virtual datacenters within tenants
- Offer easy launch of readymade apps using blueprints
- Deliver datacenter services with restricted networks and IP addresses
- Control access using RBAC with granular privileges and custom role override (e.g. read only access)
- Manage partner accounts in public cloud
- Whitelabel per customer, or even per reseller with custom URLs
Abiquo customers use the following kinds of business process, DevOps, and systems integrations.
- Configure and launch systems using an ITSM integration
- Create configuration or update a CMDB by holding VM operations and sending a webhook to a workflow integration
- Detailed private cloud billing with service breakdown based on complete usage metering
- Hierarchical access control to dashboard display of public cloud cost and usage data from the cloud provider
- Estimated bill for public cloud and multicloud budget control with automation
- Ticketing system access through your ITSM integration
- Automation of virtual infrastructure with cloud-init
Abiquo offers the building blocks for a customized cloud service, so you can use the features that best match your business goals.
Abiquo functional map
The Abiquo cloud management platform consists of an Abiquo API Server (providing central management) and a set of Abiquo Remote Services for each datacenter, and for public cloud regions.
The platform offers a number of cloud services, and you can add integration and automation solutions too.
For example, here are some of the core services:
The Server manages the platform and delivers service as defined by cloud administrators
The API provides access to the platform functionality, allowing integration or automation
The self-service Apps library (Service catalogue and Image library) provides VM templates and blueprints to run on the platform and use its resources
The UI allows cloud consumers to use the platform through the Abiquo Server
Dashboards, Reporting, Accounting, and Metering show how the platform is being used and enable you to send each tenant a single cloud bill for their multicloud services!
Here is a basic functional map of Abiquo:
As the basic functional map shows, Abiquo adds an unintrusive management layer to the existing cloud infrastructure and providers. There is no impact on any VMs that are already running.
Abiquo doesn't do anything to virtual machines without user actions. Abiquo will update its own information when it checks and synchronizes but it doesn't delete anything. Abiquo doesn't power off or undeploy VMs. So if something has happened to your VM, you can check in the events view and you will usually see that someone else in the team has done something to your VM!
The Cloud Admins can add the physical and virtual infrastructure to Abiquo in a controlled way on their own timescales.
Abiquo does more than just cloud provisioning!
In addition to the basic concepts, the following diagram shows some of the specialized feature sets that Abiquo can provide as part of a cloud service! For example, with Abiquo you can:
- Manage costs with budgets, pricing estimates, dashboards displaying usage and bills, and allocation limits. Synchronize price books from Amazon and Azure. Control your cloud costs.
- Automatically scale out or in to adjust your workloads (and cloud bills) to your application requirements on any cloud. Save on cloud costs.
- Manage automation on any cloud, using guest tools or the cloud-init standard. Save system administrators' time.
- Automate your infrastructure using Abiquo integrations with Terraform and Chef, or using standard tools such as Ansible and Puppet. Save system administrator time.
- Create your own integrations using the complete Abiquo REST API, with Java and Python libraries. Use the Java stream client to follow activity on the platform.
Customize your cloud platform to implement your business objectives.
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