Creating cloud projects for the blueprint designer#

A cloud project for the blueprint designer represents a tenant or project on a cloud system. You can give users access to cloud systems through cloud projects.

• Connect the blueprint design server to a cloud. See Connecting to clouds through the blueprint designer.
• On that cloud system, create one or more accounts and configure their access. The blueprint designer users use these functional IDs to access the cloud. You can create multiple functional IDs for each cloud and grant the functional IDs appropriate access for each team that you configure on the blueprint designer.

• If you do not use the Keystone server that was supplied with the engine, create one or more Keystone accounts. You can create one account with all permissions, including creating instances, or you can create separate accounts with different permissions. The accounts must be members of the administrative tenant. If you create one account, you can define access to resources for each team.

  Note: If you use the Keystone server that is supplied with engine, you can use the default account on the administrative tenant. The The Keystone server's default administrative tenant user name is admin and the default password is openstack1.

• Log in to the blueprint designer as a user with the following System permissions:

  • Configure Security
  • Manage Users & Groups
  • Click Settings > Clouds.

• Click Add New Connection.

• Specify the following information, depending on the type of cloud:

  Property	Description
  Name (Project name from OpenStack)	For OpenStack Keystone version 3, specify the OpenStack project name. For Keystone version 2, specify the tenant name. If you use the Keystone server that is provided with the engine, the default value is admin.
  Facing Type	Select the type of URL for the Heat engine.
  Functional ID	Enter the ID of the functional account on the OpenStack system. If you use the Keystone server that is provided with the engine, the default value is admin.
  Password	Enter the password for the functional account. If you use the Keystone server that is provided with the engine, the default value is openstack1.
  Tenant	Enter the tenant ID to use.
  Domain	If your OpenStack identity service uses the Identity API v3, enter the domain that the project is on. If you use the Keystone server that is provided with the engine, the default value is default.
  Identity URL	Specify the location of the identity service, such as http://example.com:5000/v2.0 or http://example.com:5000/v3. Do not include a trailing slash.
  Timeout in Mins	Specify the amount of time in minutes to wait for a provision request to be completed. If you deploy HCL™ Launch components, allow sufficient time for the cloud to provision your instance, the agent to come online, and all processes to run. See Creating a HCL Launch timeout configuration file.

  Property	Description
  Name	Specify the name of the SoftLayer cloud project.
  Default Orchestration Service	Select the orchestration service.
  SoftLayer User ID	Enter the account ID for SoftLayer.
  SoftLayer API Key	Enter The API key for SoftLayer.

  Property	Description
  Name	Specify the name of the Amazon cloud project.
  Default Orchestration Service	Select the orchestration service.
  Amazon Access ID	Enter the ID for AWS.
  Amazon Secret Key	Enter the password for AWS.

  Property	Description
  Name	Specify the name of the VMware vCenter cloud project.
  Default Orchestration Service	Select the orchestration service.
  VMware vCenter User ID	Enter the user ID for VMware vCenter.
  VMware vCenter Password	Enter the password for VMware vCenter.
  VMware vCenter Host	Enter the host name of the VMware vSphere API for vCenter server. This is the host name portion of the property VirtualCenter.VimApiUrl.
  VMware vCenter Port	Enter the port of the VMware vSphere API for vCenter server. This is the port portion of the property VirtualCenter.VimApiUrl.

  Property	Description
  Name	Specify the name of the VMware vRealize cloud project.
  Default Orchestration Service	Select the orchestration service.
  VRA User ID	Enter the user ID for VMware vRealize Automation.
  VRA Password	Enter the password for VMware vRealize Automation.
  VRA Host	Enter the URL that hosts the VMware vRealize Automation server.
  VRA Tenant Name	Enter the tenant name from the VMware vRealize Automation server.

  Property	Description
  Name	Specify the name of the Azure cloud project.
  Default Orchestration Service	Select the orchestration service.
  Azure Subscription ID	Enter the subscription ID to use. You can find this information in the Azure web portal or by running the CLI command azure account list.
  Azure Client ID	Enter the ID of the application to associate the connection with. You can create a temporary application with the azure ad app create command.
  Azure Client Secret	Enter the password of the application. You specified this password when you created the application with the azure ad app create command.
  Azure Tenant ID	Enter the tenant ID to use. You can find this information by running the CLI command azure account list.

  Property	Description
  Name	Specify the name of the Google Cloud Platform cloud project.
  Default Orchestration Service	Select the orchestration service.
  Upload your Google Cloud credentials	Upload the file for your Google Cloud service account key that contains your API key credentials. Only JSON key files are supported. See Creating a key file for Google Cloud Platform. 1. Click Choose File.
  2. Select the JSON key file on your computer, and click Open. The JSON file name is in this format: service\_account\_name-12\_digits\_of\_its\_private\_key\_id

• If your VMware cloud requires NSX networking types, select the Configure NSX access check box and specify the following information:

  Property	Description
  NSX User ID	Enter the NSX user ID.
  NSX Password	Enter the password for the NSX user ID.
  NSX Host	Enter the VMWare NSX API host IP address and port number.

• Click Test Connection to verify that the connection information is correct.

• Click Save.

Assign the cloud project to a team:

1. Click Teams, and then select a team.
2. Go to the Cloud Authorization tab, and click Add.
3. Click Save.