Connecting to Other Cloud Vendors

Scenarios

COC allows you to configure accounts of other cloud vendors and synchronize their resources. Currently, Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Huawei Cloud Stack are supported. If you need to manage resources of other cloud vendors on COC, perform the operations in Adding an Account of Another Cloud Vendor.

Precautions

• To use the multi-cloud vendor management capability, upgrade the version first.
• After an account is added, click Synchronize Resource to synchronize existing resources of the account.
• If the resources of an existing account have changed, you need to synchronize the resources again.

Adding an Account of Another Cloud Vendor

1. Log in to COC.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Resources > Application and Resource Management.
3. Click Multi-cloud Configurations in the upper right corner.
4. Click the target cloud vendor.
5. Set the information about the new account.

   Table 1 Parameters for adding an Alibaba Cloud or AWS account

   Parameter	Description
   Main Account ID	Account ID of the cloud vendor. Enter a master account ID. If you enter a non-master account ID, resources may fail to be synchronized.
   Account	Account name of the cloud vendor.
   Access Key ID	Access key ID of the cloud vendor. It is a unique access key ID associated with the secret access key.
   Secret Access Key	Secret access key of the cloud vendor. Secret access key is used together with an access key ID to sign requests cryptographically. It identifies a request sender and prevents the request from being modified.

   Table 2 Parameters for adding an Azure account

   Parameter	Description
   Azure Tenant ID	Enter the Azure tenant ID. Microsoft Entra ID [formerly known as Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)] is used to uniquely identify your organization's identity authentication and directory service instance in Azure.
   Azure Tenant Name	Account name of the cloud vendor.
   Application ID	Enter the Azure application ID. An application ID is a unique identifier allocated by an application and is used to identify a specific application during identity authentication and authorization.
   Application Secret Value	Enter the application secret value of Azure (added to Certificates & secrets). Secret string used by an application to authenticate itself when requesting a token.

   Table 3 Parameters for adding a Huawei Cloud Stack account

   Parameter	Description
   Domain name/IP Address	Enter the Huawei Cloud Stack domain name or IP address. Domain names and IP addresses are network identifiers for accessing Huawei Cloud Stack and related resources. They are used to locate and connect to Huawei Cloud Stack service components in the network environment.
   Environment Name	Enter the name of the Huawei Cloud Stack environment to be managed.
   Account	Enter the Huawei Cloud Stack account name.
   Password	Enter the Huawei Cloud Stack account and password.

6. Click OK.

   The account is created.

Modifying an Account of Another Cloud Vendor

1. Log in to COC.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Resources > Application and Resource Management.
3. Click Multi-cloud Configurations in the upper right corner.
4. Locate the target account and click Modify in the Operation column.
5. Modify the account information by referring to the following table.

   Table 4 Parameters for modifying the Alibaba Cloud or AWS account

   Parameter	Description
   Account	Account name of the cloud vendor.
   Access Key ID	Access key ID of the cloud vendor. It is a unique access key ID associated with the secret access key.
   Reuse Secret Access Key	Whether to reuse the secret access key. If you select Yes, the latest secret access key is reused. If you select No, enter a new secret access key.
   Secret Access Key	Set this parameter only when Reuse Secret Access Key is set to Yes. Secret access key of the cloud vendor. Secret access key is used together with an access key ID to sign requests cryptographically. It identifies a request sender and prevents the request from being modified.

   Table 5 Parameters for modifying an Azure account

   Parameter	Description
   Azure Tenant ID	Enter the Azure tenant ID. Microsoft Entra ID [formerly known as Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)] is used to uniquely identify your organization's identity authentication and directory service instance in Azure.
   Account name of the cloud vendor.	Account name of the cloud vendor.
   Application ID	Enter the Azure application ID. An application ID is a unique identifier allocated by an application and is used to identify a specific application during identity authentication and authorization.
   Application Secret Value Reuse	This parameter is mandatory only when Application Confidential Value Reuse is set to Yes. Enter the application secret value of Azure (added to Certificates & secrets). Secret string used by an application to authenticate itself when requesting a token.

6. Click OK.

   The account is modified.

Deleting an Account of Another Cloud Vendor

1. Log in to COC.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Resources > Application and Resource Management.
3. Click Multi-cloud Configurations in the upper right corner.
4. Locate the target account and click Delete in the Operation column.
5. Click OK.

   The account is deleted.