Credential Store Management

Overview

The HyperCloud™ Platform (HCP), lets you have a centralized space for managing your Virtual Machine (VM) Public and Private cloud credentials. New storage account keys are always generated in pairs. If there is a problem with the key-pair in use, the HCP portal uses the unused key-pair to provide non-interrupted services. Whenever the second key-pair is utilized, a new key-pair is generated. When you use the VM Creation Wizard to create a VM, you'll need to provide these authentication methods:

• Key-Pair Store

• Password Store

Key-Pair Store

The following cloud providers support a Key-Pair Store: 

• AWS

• GCP

• Azure

• OpenStack

Create Key-Pair Store

To create a key-pair store:

1. Login to your HCP account.

2. Navigate to Service Orchestration > Services > Credential store > New > Key-pair Store.
   
   

3. Select the cloud provider for which, you wish to create a key-pair store.

4. Enter the name for your cloud provider-specific key-pair store.

5. Select the resource pool.

6. Click Generate Keys, to create public and private keys.

7. Click Download Private Keys, if you want to download your keys.

8. You can choose the Entitled Users for your keys.

   • Only me: to limit the access to the keys to your HCP account.

   • Groups & Users: to share the keys between your tenant users. You'll need to entitle users to various users and groups.

9. Click on Save Changes.

Password Store

Password store creation process is similar to that of creating Key-Pair Store. New storage account passwords are always created in pairs. If there is a problem with the password in use, the HCP portal uses the unused password to provide non-interrupted services. Whenever the second password is utilized, a new password pair is generated. 

Create Password Store

To create a password store:

1. Login to your HCP account.

2. Navigate to Service Orchestration > Services > Credential store > New > Password Store.
   
   
   

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3. Enter a name for your password store.

4. Enter the Cloud Provider Account Username and Password. 

5. You can choose the Entitled Users for your Passwords.

   • Only me: to limit the access to the passwords to your HCP account.

   • Groups & Users: to share the passwords between your tenant users. You'll need to entitle users to various users and groups.