Two company on single infrastructure

SylvainB

Hello,

We would like to share our environment with another company, while keeping a single infrastructure. Each company must be autonomous in the creation and administration of VMs, with the use of template and Cloud init.

How can I do ?

Thank you for your opinions !

olivierlambert

Hi,

It's a pretty vague question but here is my (simple and vague) answers:

You can rely on self-service or ACLs
You can have 2 different XOAs (one per company)

It's mostly an organization thing than a technical challenge, and it really depends on what level of things you want to share.

SylvainB

@olivierlambert

Thanks!

I my mind, I have only one XOA.

Can I use ACL and create VM with template and cloud-init conf ?

olivierlambert

ACLs works on existing VMs (ie you create the VM and then create the ACLs on top).

If you want to leave people creating their own VMs on specific templates, that's self service. See https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/users.html#acls and https://xen-orchestra.com/docs/users.html#self-service-portal

SylvainB

@olivierlambert

Thanks

Is there a way to use cloud-init with self service?

olivierlambert

Yes, you just need to build your template with Cloudinit installed before, then allow those templates in the self-service and that's it Any person could inject its own SSH key (for example) at VM creation with self-service.

SylvainB

@olivierlambert

OK thanks!