This guide introduces Abiquo’s public cloud integrations with a basic outline of reseller, compute, and FinOps features.
For details of how to add public cloud cloud to your Abiquo cloud platform (assuming you already have a private cloud platform), see Add public cloud .
For a brief introduction to public cloud, see Abiquo quick walkthrough of public cloud.
Introduction to public cloud integrations
Abiquo public cloud integrations enable you to offer compute and FinOps capabilities for major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and VMware Cloud Director (VCD) (on-premise or public).
Abiquo has a reseller model to support your offering of Azure CSP and Amazon partner services. You can easily create reseller accounts to easily onboard customers into public cloud services. For reseller customer accounts and for customers' own accounts, you can offer compute and/or billing features.
And you can incorporate your private cloud pricing and billing data to send out a single cloud bill!
Public cloud integrations
Abiquo’s public cloud integrations offer compute, networking, storage, and billing functionality in a single pane of glass and with Abiquo’s customer friendly user interface.
For more details, see the public cloud features support and integration pages.
Public cloud features
Public cloud integration pages
Public cloud account use cases
Abiquo can manage reseller accounts for AWS and Azure.
You can add reseller credentials to the reseller enterprise and then manage customer accounts using the multicloud platform. You can use the create account feature to create customer accounts in the cloud providers and automatically add compute credentials to tenants in Abiquo. And from Abiquo you can create users in the cloud portal, and connect to the portal with a shortcut link. You can also allow your customers to add their own public cloud accounts.
Your customers can use public cloud with:
Compute functionality
Billing only
For more details, see Obtain public cloud credentials.
When you are using reseller accounts, you can apply a reseller markup (price factor) to the public cloud cost and usage data. You can then display billing data for the tenant hierarchy.
You can also offer compute, and add managed services, and limit access to public cloud functionality through Abiquo, for example, by offering read-only access with VDC roles.
Dashboard billing widgets
Your customers can track their public cloud spending with the dashboard widgets. These widgets display billing data from public cloud providers, such as AWS, Azure, Google, and OCI, as well as data from the private billing module.
The customer can compare the latest bills and the estimated bill from each provider.
You can configure the dashboard for reseller and partner accounts and their customers, as well as for accounts that were obtained directly from the provider. You will need to configure programmatic billing in your cloud provider account to enable Abiquo to access the cost usage data.
Screenshot: Estimated bill
Screenshot: Latest bills with breakdown by service
For details of how to configure this feature, see Display cloud provider billing data.
Multi-cloud budgets
You can create budgets to control spending for one or more tenants and providers. The platform tests your budgets with your daily cost and usage data from the cloud provider. This is the same data that it displays on the billing dashboard widgets.
When your costs pass a certain threshold, you can configure your budget to trigger one or more action plans. You might use this feature for a scenario such as “When our team has consumed 50 % of its budget amount in AWS, send an email to the System Administrator.”
To display budgets:
Privileges: Access budgets section, Manage budgets
Go to Control → Budgets
Select the enterprise that the budget was created in OR select All
Multi-cloud resource tagging
For basic tag operations, see Manage tags.
Search and filter resource tags
Abiquo lets you search for resources by tags, tag keys, and values. You can then use these filters to select groups of resources for automation with action plans.
To search for resources by tags and filter the search:
Go to Control → Tag management → Search
Click the funnel Filter button
Select tag details for a filter
Types of resources
Keys
Values
Click Add to create a filter
Select Any match (OR) or Strict (AND) to combine the filters
Click Search
The platform will display the entities with tags that match the filters.
To display details of the tags on a resource:
Select the resource line on the Entities panel
The platform will display the tag details including if the tag is Materialized, which means that the tag exists in the provider.
To jump to a resource, such as a virtual datacenter, virtual appliance, or a VM:
Click the resource Name on the Tags panel
To modify the filters:
To remove a specific filter, click the trash bin Delete button beside a filter
To remove all filters, click Clear
For examples, see Tag search filter examples
Multi-cloud tag policies
Abiquo 6.0 introduces tag policies to allow or deny the creation of valid resources with (or without) the defined tags. To work with tag policies, the user will need the additional privileges to: Access tag policies view Manage tag policies The administrator can manage tag policies in the Control view in the Tag management section, on the Tag policies tab. The Tag management → Entities tab from previous versions is now the Search tab.
Abiquo does not enforce tag policies on resources, instead it creates a report of invalid resources for the administrator to manage.
Abiquo tag policies apply to both Abiquo local multicloud tags and their corresponding tags in supported cloud providers.
Display a compliance report for resource tags
After you create a tag policy, you can check tag compliance on the Compliance report tab. The platform automatically generates the report once a day. After you have made changes to your tags and resources, to update the Compliance report, click the refresh button at the bottom of the screen. You can filter the Compliance report by the State of the resource (invalid or valid) and search for text in any of the resource attribute columns (e.g. Resource name, Provider type). To sort the Compliance report by the data in a column, click on the column header. For all resources, the Compliance report displays the following compliance details: Resource compliance State (which means its status), which is Valid or Invalid Tags and values Keys with no compliant values Missing required keys Non-compliant values You can select a resource to display details of its Compliance errors. You can also obtain the Compliance report using the Abiquo API.
