Add public cloud

Choose your public cloud use case

Before you add a cloud provider you should get to know the platform and its public cloud features.

• Check which features that the platform supports for your provider. See Public cloud providers.

• Read about how the platform works with the provider. See Public cloud integrations.

If your customer would like to use their own account (partner or standard), Abiquo can manage accounts for the major public cloud providers.

• For details of how Abiquo manages accounts in VCD, see VMware Cloud Director integration

You can offer your customers access to a public cloud provider with:

• Compute features and/or

• Billing features, such as billing dashboards and budgets

You can use Abiquo with reseller accounts for AWS and Azure.

• You can use Abiquo to create customer accounts in the cloud providers and automatically add compute credentials to customer tenants.

• You can use Abiquo to create users in the cloud provider portal, and use a shortcut link to connect to the portal.

• You can display billing data for the tenants in the hierarchy

Obtain your public cloud credentials

Abiquo uses two kinds of credentials: compute credentials and pricing credentials.

For reseller customer credentials, there may be different credentials to use for compute features and for billing only.

For details, see Obtain public cloud credentials .

Modify user roles to add public cloud

Based on which public cloud providers and features you will offer, you should modify your roles to add new privileges to enable the new features.

These lists contain some example privileges to consider. ALWAYS test your user roles in your own environment.

Users and tenant administrators

The privileges to consider for users and tenant administrators are as follows:

• Home

  • View bills

  • Display optimization dashboard tab

  • Display hybrid dashboard tab

  • Display VM cost view widget on Hybrid dashboard tab

• Virtual datacenters

  • Manage floating IPs (currently assigned to enterprise administrators)

  • Manage VPNs (currently assigned to enterprise administrators)

  • Manage classic firewalls (vCloud)

  • Manage virtual machine hard disks (vCloud)

  • Assign public IPs to VMs

  • Access public network tab

  • Manage public network elements

  • Assign external IPs to VMs (vCloud)

  • Access external network tab (vCloud)

  • Assign firewalls to virtual machines

  • Assign load balancers

• Apps library

  • Export a virtual machine template to public cloud region

• Users

  • Manage provider credentials

  • Manage virtual datacenter roles

  • Access budgets section

  • Manage budgets

Platform administrators

If your platform administrators do not have cloud administrator roles, please check that they have all the appropriate privileges for public cloud, which may include the user list plus the following privileges:

• Home

  • Manage bills

• Infrastructure

  • Manage public cloud regions

  • Access infrastructure view and PCRs

  • View public cloud region details

• Virtual datacenters

  • Manage default virtual datacenter firewall

  • Manage VDC default roles

• Users

  • Manage enterprise properties

  • Manage virtual datacenter roles

• Pricing

  • Add a cost code when editing a VM template

  • Access Pricing view

  • Manage pricing

  • Manage pricing credentials

• Control

  • View enterprise hierarchy

Create a public cloud region

Reseller hierarchy

In public cloud, when you have a reseller account, such as an Azure CSP or Amazon partner account, you can use a reseller hierarchy to manage your reseller customers.

Create a reseller scope

If you are not using a tenant hierarchy in private cloud, create a new reseller scope. If you already have a reseller scope, check that your reseller scope is correctly configured for public cloud as described here.

To define a tenant hierarchy you will need a reseller scope and one or more customer scopes.

Your reseller tenant with a reseller scope will be at the top of a hierarchy of customer tenants with customer scopes.

To define a scope hierarchy, select a Parent scope for each scope.

To create a scope for a reseller tenant:

1. Go to Users → Scopes

2. Click + add

3. Enter the details

   1. For the reseller's Parent scope, select the Global scope or no scope.

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4. Go to Entities

5. Select the tenant Enterprises that the reseller will manage directly, e.g. to manage users

6. Select the Locations that the reseller and their customers can use.

   1. Remember to select your new public cloud providers or regions!

7. Click Save

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Create a reseller administrator user

To create a reseller administrator user.

1. Go to Users view → Users

2. Create or edit a reseller administrator user

3. For the Role, if you created a new role with added privileges for public cloud, select the new Role

4. For the Scope, select the reseller scope

Create a reseller enterprise

If you are not using a reseller hierarchy for private cloud, create a new reseller enterprise for public cloud.

See Abiquo cloud reseller guide | Create a reseller enterprise.

Notes and related links:

• Display cloud provider billing data, see Display cloud provider billing data

• Tenant metadata for reseller, see Enterprise properties for resellers
  To inject tenant metadata into VMs, see Manage enterprise credentials and properties | Inject enterprise properties as VM variables

• To onboard the prices of hardware profiles from public cloud, see Synchronize public cloud price lists

  • If you have pricing models assigned to reseller customers and you add public cloud pricing credentials for AWS or Azure, then Abiquo will automatically onboard hardware profile prices for them.

    • After the initial onboard, to stop the synchronization, you can stop the cron job that runs it

Create or modify a reseller customer scope

For your new or existing cloud tenants that will be customers of your reseller in a reseller hierarchy.

1. Go to Users view → Scopes

2. Create or edit a tenant scope

3. For the Parent scope, select the reseller scope

4. Go to Entities and select the new public cloud providers or regions

5. Click Save

Create or modify a reseller customer tenant

For your new or existing cloud tenants that will be customers of your reseller in a reseller hierarchy.

1. Log in as the reseller administrator user

2. Go to Users view

3. Create or edit an enterprise

   1. For the Default scope, select the reseller customer scope

   2. If the customer will have sub-tenants, select the Key node checkbox

4. Optionally, set Allocation limits to control your tenant’s resource usage

5. Go to Datacenters, and drag the new public cloud providers or regions into the Allowed column

6. If the reseller customer will use billing only, go to Credentials and follow the instructions at Add AWS and Azure credentials only for billing

7. Go to Properties and enter custom price factors as required

8. Click Save

Create customer cloud accounts

As a reseller administrator, you can automatically create a cloud account for your reseller customer tenant in AWS or Azure.

1. Log in as the reseller administrator user

2. Edit the reseller enterprise

3. Go to Credentials

4. Next to the cloud provider name, click the building Create account button

5. Select the customer enterprise and enter the customer account details

Abiquo will add the new customer compute credentials to the customer enterprise.

Create a customer tenant with XaaS and Abiquo Setup Service

With XaaS and the AbiquoSetupService, you can automatically create a customer tenant structure in Abiquo.

• A child scope with name “SCOPE-” + “New enterprise name”.

• A key node enterprise in the new scope with name = “New enterprise name”.

• A new user with role = “Default user role” and name = “admin” + “New enterprise name”

For more details, see Abiquo Setup service