Credentials

Manager | Partner

Credentials tab is a central management panel for all tools you can connect with Taikun. Whenever you want to connect your Cloud provider, Backup Storage, or Showback tool, the Credentials section is right for you!

Supported Cloud credentials

The Cloud Credentials tab is where you can manage connected Cloud providers. This includes adding, modifying, or deleting connections of your Cloud services that include:

Warning

Only a Partner can add Proxmox and Tanzu.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
OpenStack
Tanzu
Proxmox
Openshift
VMware vSphere
Zededa
Zadara

Each Cloud provider has different parameters that will be reflected in the created Table. Tables can be sorted differently depending on the available data, and you can also expand columns to see a detailed overview.

Backup credentials

Taikun’s Backup system will allow you to back up your Project data to any S3-compatible storage offered on the market. The Backup Credentials tab is where you can connect your Backup storage to ensure that the data stays safe.

Up here, you will find a tabs with parameters of connected storage that involve:

ID: Unique identifier of the storage
Organization: Name of the organization associated with the storage
S3 Access Key ID: Access key for S3
S3 Endpoint: URL of the S3 endpoint
S3 Name: Name of the storage
Associated Projects: Projects linked to this storage
Actions: Possible actions, such as edit or delete

Billing credentials

These credentials are required to ensure timely payments for cloud resources like computing power, storage, and networking. Cloud providers also use them to generate invoices and manage subscription plans.

To add billing credentials, users need to provide the following details in the “Add Credentials” dialog:

Organization: Select your organization
Name: Specify a name for your credentials (e.g., “billing”)
Username: Enter the billing service username (e.g., “user”)
Password: Enter the service password
URL: Provide the service URL (e.g., https://prometheus.####.###).

This information is required to configure and authenticate billing for cloud services.

Note

Only Partners have access to the Billing credentials section.

Showback credentials

If you want to use an external source for your Showback rules, add Showback Credentials to this menu. The table will display all added credentials along with additional parameters.

Note

Partners can filter any available Credentials menu by an Organization.

AI credentials

These credentials are used to verify the identity of users and give them the appropriate permissions to authenticate and interact with AI resources through API Key (Application Programming Interfaces).