Managing Providers

You can manage your Edge providers with the command oneprovider. This will allow you to register the provider in OpenNebula and use it. There are two ways of using it:

  • As part of an Edge Cluster definition. When you create the Edge Cluster the provider information will be used.

  • You can set the provider when creating a new Edge Cluster with the command oneprovision create and the parameter --provider. This will override any provider in the Edge Cluster definition template.

Important

The information stored in providers is encrypted due to security reasons. Because of this, a user should belong to oneadmin's group in order to use them.

Command Usage

The CLI command to manage Edge providers is oneprovider. It follows the same structure as the other CLI commands in OpenNebula. You can check all the available commands with the option -h or --help.

Warning

Provider information is encrypted, so it can only be managed by oneadmin or oneadmin’s group user.

Create

To create a provider, use the command oneprovider create:

oneprovider create /tmp/template.yml
ID: 0

Check Information

To check provider information, use the command oneprovider show:

oneprovider show 0
PROVIDER 0 INFORMATION
ID   : 0
NAME : aws-frankfurt

CONNECTION INFORMATION
access_key : AWS access key
secret_key : AWS secret key
region     : eu-central-1

Warning

Information is shown unencrypted.

Update

You can update the provider information using the command oneprovider update.

Delete

To delete the provider, use the command oneprovider delete, e,g:

oneprovider delete 2

Warning

If you try to delete a provider that is being used by a provision or provision template, you will get an error.

Adding and Customizing Edge Providers

The predefined providers are located in /usr/share/one/oneprovision/edge-clusters/<provision_type>/providers/<provider>. The provision type can be metal or virtual, and the provider is one of the ones available.

Providers’ information is loaded by the OneProvision Sunstone GUI, so the user can select one in order to create his or her own provider. If you want to add a new template here, you need to follow these steps:

  1. Clone one of the templates.

  2. In the cloned template put the new information.

  3. Restart the OneProvision Edge GUI systemctl restart opennebula-fireedge.

Note

If you want to modify some of the existing providers, you just need to execute points 2 and 3.