Enabling Tenancy in AKO

This section elaborates the steps to enable Tenancy in AKO.

To enable Tenancy in AKO, follow the steps below:

1. Create a Tenant.

2. Create the Required Roles.

3. Assign Tenants and Roles to Users.

Procedure

1. Creating a Tenant.
   1. From the UI, navigate to Administration > Accounts > Tenants.
   2. Click Create.
   3. Enter the Name as billing.
   4. The New Tenant screen is as shown below:
      
      
      
   5. Click Save.
2. Creating Roles: Create the required roles with appropriate privileges to the ako user in the admin and the billing tenants. This can be created by POST to /api/role.
   1. Create the role ako-admin.
   2. Create the role ako-tenant.
   3. Navigate to Administration > Accounts > Roles.

      The roles created are displayed as shown below:

      
      
      
3. Assigning Tenants: Create users and assign tenants as required. To create users,
   1. Navigate to Administration > Accounts > Users.
   2. Click Create.
   3. Enter the User Information as required. In the Tenant & Role section, click Add and select the Roles.
   4. Under Individual Tenants, click Add and select the Tenant.
      
      
      
   5. Click Save.

What to do next

In AKO, configure the following:

• Set the ControllerSettings.tenantName to the tenant created in the earlier steps.

• The avicredentials.username and avicredentials.password to the user credentials created above.

Note:

In the NodePort mode of AKO (when L7Settings.serviceType is set to NodePort), VRFContext permissions are not required in the admin tenant in the NSX Advanced Load Balancer Controller.