This page is a guide for cloud administrators to provision tenants (enterprises) in private cloud.
Flow chart
This flow chart describes the basic process for provisioning enterprise tenants.
Before you begin
Before you provision tenants:
We recommend that you provision infrastructure. See Provision infrastructure
You can also do any of these additional steps:
Create pricing models, see Create a new pricing model
Provision tenants
These are the basic steps to provision tenants in Abiquo.
Create user roles
Create user roles from the default roles. You may need a standard user, a tenant administrator, and optionally, a reseller administrator. Reference: Manage roles#Introduction to user roles.
Go to Users → Roles
Click the duplicate clone button and click the pencil edit button, OR click the +add button
Enter the Name of the role
To create a global role for all enterprises, select Make this role global
Optionally, to create a list of network addresses from which users with this role can access the platform, enter Allowed CIDRs.
Enter the corresponding External roles, e.g. LDAP group, for the user. This is required in external authentication modes (openid, ldap).
A user's external roles must map to a single role (local or global).
You can also set external scopes.Examples of external roles for LDAP:
ldap_group_01
ldap_group_02
Example for OpenID:
id=admins,ou=group,o=qa,ou=services,dc=openam,dc=forgerock,dc=org
Modify the privileges of user roles
Select the role
In the Privileges pane, select or deselect the privileges
To add or remove groups of privileges, click the All privileges checkbox beside the group name
You cannot “undo” a set of changes, but you can discard your changes
To save the changes, click Save
The platform will discard your changes if you do an action outside of the Privileges pane, for example, clicking on a another role name- For troubleshooting information, see Manage roles#Role troubleshooting and tips
Create scopes
Create a scope for each tenant, so that each user can only access their own tenant and its resources.
Reference: Manage scopes#Introduction to user scopes
You can delegate the administration of users in the tenant to a tenant administrator user with this scope
Optionally, you can use scopes to create a tenant hierarchy with a reseller at the top level. Reference: Abiquo Reseller Guide
Go to Users → Scopes
At the bottom of the Scopes list, click +add
On the General info tab, select a parent scope, for example, the Global scope or a reseller scope
In the Datacenters list, select the appropriate locations (datacenters and public cloud regions) where the users will work
Create tenant enterprises
Create the tenant enterprise for the scope
Go to Users and at the bottom of the Enterprises list, click the + add button
On the General tab for the Default scope select the tenant's scope.
Abiquo will automatically add the enterprise to its Default scopeOptionally, if the enterprise represents the tenant headquarters or similar, select Key node
Go to Allocation limits and set resource usage limits for the enterprise. Reference: Limit resource usage with allocation limits.
On the Datacenters tab, to allow the tenant's users to work in locations, drag providers, datacenters, or regions into Allowed datacenters
To configure the tenant in each allowed datacenter or public cloud region, see Configure an enterprise in a cloud location
Optionally, add Credentials for public cloud. See Add credentials for public cloud
On the Properties tab, for each tenant metadata property, enter a Key and Value, and click Add.
See Enterprise properties general table and Display cloud provider billing data
To inject the tenant details into VM metadata, see https://abiquo.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doc/pages/327581812/Manage+enterprise+credentials+and+properties#Inject-enterprise-properties-as-VM-variablesOptionally, on the Pricing tab, select a pricing model
Click Save.
The platform will create the enterprise and filter to display this enterprise ONLY. To display other enterprises, click the x beside the enterprise Name in the filter box at the top of the Enterprises list.
Create tenant administrators
Create a tenant administrator user
Go to Users → Users
If the tenant enterprise is not selected, select it
At the bottom of the Users tab, click + add
For the Full name, enter the user’s first name and family name
For the Role: select ENTERPRISE_ADMIN or similar
For the Scope, select the user’s enterprise scope
For the Username, enter the name that the user will log in with, which will display in the system
For the E-mail, enter the address of the user for platform messages, including password reset. The platform will display the Gravatar icon associated with this address as the user icon
For Phone number, enter the mobile cell phone number of the user to receive SMS messages if you use this option for two factor authentication
Go to Advanced and enter the user’s Public key, which is required for SSH access
Optionally, enter Allowed CIDRs from which the user can access the platform
We recommend that you select Reset password on next login
Optionally, deselect Activated to prevent the user from logging in until this option is selected
Replace screenshot as enterprise administrator has No VDC restriction, so Limit access to VDCs will not display for this user
Next steps
Provision cloud infrastructure networks. See Network provisioning guide
Create virtual datacenters. See Manage virtual datacenters
Import and capture VMs. See Import and capture virtual machines
Configure additional VDC services, such as Backup as a Service - see Abiquo backup plugins and Backup
Create cloud users. This is similar to creating a tenant administrator user, but
For the Role, select a standard cloud USER role
Optionally, go to Limit access to VDCs, select the VDCs that the user can access