Hybrid cloud

This walkthrough describes hybrid and public cloud environments in Abiquo.

Customers wish to offer convenient public cloud services with the same easy user interface. In addition to local data centers, Abiquo can manage public cloud resources. Each tenant will require their own set of public cloud credentials.

To manage public cloud, Abiquo creates public cloud regions, which are similar to data centers, for public cloud providers, and clouds managed by platforms such as vCloud Director. 

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Abiquo public cloud regions

To work with public cloud, each tenant requires a set of credentials for working with the cloud provider API. The cloud administrator can edit an enterprise to enter the credentials. Or a tenant administrator can enter the credentials for their own enterprise, if they have the appropriate privileges. Abiquo offers some basic guides on how to Obtain public cloud credentials.

In a similar way that you can capture VMs from hypervisors in private cloud, the cloud operator or tenant administrator can acquire the existing virtual infrastructure so that it can be managed by Abiquo. 

Abiquo will import the following (as supported by the provider):

• virtual datacenters

• virtual datacenter networks

• public IPs

• firewalls

• load balancers

• VMs

• templates used to create VMs, with templates that are not available marked appropriately

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Filter templates in the public cloud catalogue

If the provider does not support virtual datacenters, Abiquo may create logical virtual datacenters to organize the virtual resources.

You can easily onboard your virtual resources from public cloud in the myCloud virtual datacenters view using the option to Synchronize public cloud.

As in private cloud, tenant administrators can define allocation limits to restrict resources available to cloud users in the virtual datacenter in public cloud. These allocation limits complement the limits set by cloud operators for the tenant.

Tenant administrators can obtain public IPs from the cloud provider and make them available to users in their enterprises.

And Abiquo tenant administrators can create firewalls (security groups) in public cloud providers that support them, such as AWS.

Abiquo tenant administrators can create load balancers in public cloud providers. Abiquo has a consistent interface for load balancers that incorporates different provider functionality. 

The cloud platform can support multiple datacenters and public cloud regions, with different technologies and service levels. The template mobility feature enables VM templates to be exported from datacenters to other datacenters and to public cloud regions. So this walkthrough requires one private cloud datacenter and a public cloud region, and a compatible template, prepared according to provider instructions (see VM Template Mobility). Remember to check that the tenant is allowed to use the private cloud datacenter and the public cloud region.

For full details about public cloud in Abiquo, see Public cloud integrations and Public cloud providers.