Providing cloud credentials in a blueprint

By default, when you provision an environment from a blueprint, the environment is created by using the cloud account information of its cloud project. However, when you create a blueprint for most kinds of clouds, you can specify different user credentials.

Before you begin

Create a blueprint for your cloud project. See Creating and editing blueprints with the blueprint designer.

About this task

You store credentials for each cloud project. If you modify the properties in a blueprint's source code, you can provide different credentials that are used to create individual environments.

Note: You cannot specify different user credentials for OpenStack clouds.

Procedure

Obtain the credentials for the cloud account to use with your environment.
To edit a blueprint's source code, click Blueprints, select your blueprint's name, and click Source.

In the parameters section of the blueprint source code, enter the appropriate properties and credentials for your cloud type:

For Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, enter these lines:

IBM::AWS::Access_ID:
  type: string
  description:AWS ID
  default: 'your_id'
IBM::AWS::Secret_Key:
  type:string
  description: AWS key
default: 'your_secret_key'

For Softlayer, enter these lines:

IBM::Softlayer::User:
  type: string
  description: Softlayer ID
  default: 'your_id'
IBM::Softlayer::API_Key:
  type: string
  description: Softlayer key
  default: 'your_api_key'

For VMware, enter these lines:

  IBM::VMWare::User:
  type: string
  description: VMware User
  default: 'your_user_name'
IBM::VMWare::Password:
  type: string
  description: VMware password
  default: 'your_password'

Click Save.

What to do next

Provision an environment by using your blueprint. See Provisioning cloud environments.

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