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This guide explains how to add Alibaba Cloud account to Cloudaware. Alibaba Cloud is an integrated suite of cloud products and services to help digitalize by providing scalable, secure, and reliable cloud computing solutions.

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  1. Log in to Cloudaware account → Admin.

    Alibaba Cloud - admin.png

  2. Find Alibaba Cloud. Click +ADD.

    Alibaba Cloud - add Alibaba Cloud account.png

  3. Fill out the form:

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    Name - a meaningful Alibaba Cloud account name
    Authentification Type - select authentification type:

RAM Role (Recommended)

This option allows adding Alibaba Cloud account to Cloudaware with a pre-generated template for RAM role creation. The template simplifies the creation of stack and RAM user in Resource Orchestration Service (ROS) in Alibaba Cloud.
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Trusted Account - the Cloudaware Alibaba Cloud account ID is used in the template (copy the trusted account ID only if Cloudaware RAM role will be created manually in Alibaba Cloud)
External ID - click the crossed arrows sign to generate External ID. Copy and save External ID for further setup in Alibaba.

Click TEMPLATE to download the Cloudaware template. Open the file in a text editor.

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In Alibaba account, go to ROS console. Go to Templates → My Templates → Create template.

In the section 'Edit template', paste the code of downloaded Cloudaware template.

Click Save template.

In the section Actions for this template, click Create Stack.
In the section Access, insert the saved External ID in the AccessExternalId field.

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Role ARN - paste the RAM role ARN copied from Alibaba Cloud

Access Keys

This option allows adding Alibaba Cloud account to Cloudaware with user access key and secret.

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Access Key ID
Access Key Secret

Click Check to test the connection.

  1. The green light in 'Status' means that Alibaba Cloud integration has been successfully configured. If there is a red light, please contact support@cloudaware.com.

List of Alibaba Cloud objects

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