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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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Add Alibaba Cloud Account

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  1. Log in to Cloudaware account → Admin.

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2. Find Alibaba Cloud in the list of Cloud integrations, click +Add.

3. To add Alibaba Cloud account, fill out the following fields:

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Click Check to test the connection.

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  2. Find Alibaba Cloud. Click +ADD.

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  3. Fill out the form:

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

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 that 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.

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

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Click Save Template.

In the section 'Actions' for this template, click Create Stack.

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In the section 'Access', insert the saved External ID in the AccessExternalId field. Click Create.

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

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Go back to the Cloudaware form. Paste the RAM Role ARN copied from in Alibaba Cloud:

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Click CHECK. Once the validation is passed, click SAVE.

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 - enter the RAM user's access key ID
Access Key Secret - enter the RAM user's access key secret

Click CHECK. Once the validation is passed, click SAVE.

  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.

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List of Alibaba Cloud

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objects

Cloudaware supports the following Alibaba Cloud objects at the moment:

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