Step 1: Make Preparations

Signing Up for a Huawei Cloud Account and Completing Real-Name Authentication

If you already have a Huawei Cloud account, skip this part. If you do not have one, proceed as follows:

1. Visit https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/ and click Sign Up in the upper right corner.
2. Register a HUAWEI ID as prompted. For details, see Signing Up for a Huawei Cloud Account. After the registration is complete, the account information page is displayed.
3. (Optional) If any cloud services require, authenticate your account. Complete individual real-name authentication or enterprise real-name authentication.

Creating an IAM User and Granting Permissions

When you use KooCLI to manage and use your cloud resources, provide your IAM user identity information for authentication.

IAM users are created with a Huawei Cloud account to use cloud services. Each IAM user has their own identity credentials and uses cloud resources based on assigned permissions. IAM users cannot make payments themselves. You can use your Huawei Cloud account to pay their bills.

After you sign up with Huawei Cloud, an IAM user is automatically created for your Huawei Cloud account. The user is marked "Enterprise administrator" in IAM and their permissions cannot be modified. If you need an IAM user with specific permissions, create another user and grant the user the required permissions.

Obtaining an Access Key (AK/SK)

When you use KooCLI to manage and use your cloud resources, provide your IAM user identity information for authentication. To initialize the configurations, learn about access keys and obtain one