Abiquo cloud reseller hierarchy

Basic reseller hierarchy

Usually you will represent a reseller with a reseller enterprise, and their customers with customer enterprises.

So you can create a basic reseller hierarchy with just two levels.

Diagram: basic reseller hierarchy

Abiquo defines the reseller hierarchy using Abiquo scopes.

Multi-level reseller hierarchy

Customers can have further levels, such as, departments. In public cloud, the departments may have their own AWS accounts or Azure Plans subscriptions.

So an example of a reseller hierarchy of cloud tenants could be:

• Platform owner → reseller → customers → departments.

The following diagram shows a multi-level reseller hierarchy

Diagram: multi-level reseller hierarchy

Define a multi-level reseller hierarchy with scopes

In public cloud, a typical reseller hierarchy will have customers and the customers may have an additional level of enterprises for multiple tenant subscriptions or accounts.

Each customer will have its own scope and the Parent scope of the customer scope should be the Reseller scope.

Diagram: multi-level reseller hierarchy created with scopes

Reseller hierarchy options

If a customer has their own public cloud account, which they contracted directly from the provider, then you may add their cloud account with a key node, as shown with Customer2 in the diagram below.

If each subtenant will manage its own users, you can also create individual scopes for the subtenant enterprises. This model is shown with Customer3 in the diagram below.

Diagram: A complex reseller hierarchy, showing some possible enterprise and scope models.

Diagram: Another example of a reseller hierarchy

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An example of a reseller hierarchy