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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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Summary

To integrate Alibaba Cloud account with Cloudaware:

  1. Download the RAM template from Cloudaware.

  2. Apply and save the template in ROS console in Alibaba Cloud to create a RAM role.

  3. Create a stack using External ID from Cloudaware.

  4. Provide RAM Role ARN in Cloudaware.

Add Alibaba Cloud Account

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RAM Role (Recommended)

This option allows adding an 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 - generate External ID and save it for further setup in Alibaba

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

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Log in to ROS console in Alibaba Cloud account. 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.

Select the tab 'Resources'. Click on the role CloudAwareRamRole. Copy the Role ARN.

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

Access Keys

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

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Access Key ID
Access Key Secret

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