Managing Resources of Other Cloud Vendors
In multi‑cloud operations, enterprises frequently manage resources that span multiple cloud platforms, which leads to complex resource management and low efficiency. COC allows you to configure accounts for other cloud vendors and synchronize their resources. This enables enterprises to efficiently manage resources from different cloud service providers on a unified platform. You can configure accounts for other cloud vendors on COC and synchronize their resources. This simplifies resource management across multiple clouds.
Currently, resources of Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Huawei Cloud Stack can be managed. If you need to manage resources from other cloud vendors on COC, perform the operations in Adding an Account of a Cloud Vendor.
Precautions
- To use the multi-cloud vendor management capability, upgrade the version first. For details about the package, see Billing Items.
- After an account is added, you need to manually synchronize resources to synchronize existing resources of the current account.
- If the resources of an existing account have changed, you need to manually synchronize the resources again.
Adding an Account of a Cloud Vendor
- Log in to COC.
- In the navigation pane, choose Resources > Application and Resource Management.
- Click Multi-cloud Configurations in the upper right corner. Figure 1 Multi-cloud configurations
- On the multi-cloud configuration page, click the cloud vendor to which you want to add an account. The page for configuring the cloud vendor account is displayed.
- Set the information about the new account as prompted.
- For details about how to add an Alibaba Cloud or AWS account, see Table 1.
Table 1 Parameters for adding an Alibaba Cloud or AWS account Parameter
Description
Master 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.
After the account is added, the account ID cannot be changed.
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.
- For details about how to add an Azure account, see Table 2.
Table 2 Parameters for adding an Azure account Parameter
Description
Azure Tenant ID
Enter an Azure tenant ID. If you enter a non-tenant ID, resources may fail to be synchronized.
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.
After the account is added, the tenant ID cannot be changed.
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.
- For details about how to add a Huawei Cloud Stack account, see Table 3.
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.
After the account is added, the domain name or IP address cannot be changed.
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.
- For details about how to add an Alibaba Cloud or AWS account, see Table 1.
- Click OK. The account is added.
On the resource management page, select a cloud vendor. After you manually synchronize resources, you can view the information about the managed resources in the resource list.
Modifying an Account of a Cloud Vendor
- Log in to COC.
- In the navigation pane, choose Resources > Application and Resource Management.
- Click Multi-cloud Configurations in the upper right corner.
- Locate the target account and click Modify in the Operation column. The page for modifying the account is displayed. Figure 2 Modifying an account
- Modify the account information by referring to the following table.
Table 4 Parameters for modifying the Alibaba Cloud or AWS account Parameter
Description
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 (SK) is reused.
- If you select No, enter a new SK.
Secret Access Key
Set this parameter only when Reuse Secret Access Key is set to No.
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 the Azure account Parameter
Description
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 Reuse
Select whether to reuse the application secret value.
- If you select Yes, the latest application secret value is reused.
- If you select No, enter a new application secret value.
Application Secret Value
This parameter is mandatory only when Application Secret Value Reuse is set to No.
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 6 Parameters for modifying the Huawei Cloud Stack account Parameter
Description
Environment Name
Enter the name of the Huawei Cloud Stack environment to be managed.
Account
Enter the Huawei Cloud Stack account name.
Password Reuse
Select whether to reuse the password.
- If you select Yes, the latest secret access password is reused.
- If you select No, you need to enter a new password.
Password
This parameter is mandatory only when Password Reuse is set to No.
Enter the Huawei Cloud Stack account and password.
- Click OK. The account is modified.
After the modification, you can manually synchronize resources to update related resource information.
Deleting an Account of a Cloud Vendor
- Log in to COC.
- In the navigation pane, choose Resources > Application and Resource Management.
- Click Multi-cloud Configurations in the upper right corner.
- Locate the target account and click Delete in the Operation column.
- Click OK. The account is deleted.
After the account is deleted, the system deletes all resources of the account from the Resources page.
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