Initiating Incredibuild Cloud

  1. If you are using Linux, speak to your Customer Success Manager to enable Incredibuild Cloud.

  2. If you have already installed the Incredibuild Coordinator, go to there and click the Add Cloud Cores button. The location of the button varies slightly depending on which version of Incredibuild you are using:

    • Incredibuild 9.5x Windows: Coordinator Monitor

    • Linux: Coordinator

  3. Select your cloud provider and platform. The selected cloud platform will be integrated with Incredibuild Cloud to provide you with VMs for your task acceleration:

  4. Depending on your selection, continue with one of the activation procedures:

    1. On the Incredibuild Cloud – AWS Login dialog box, there are two methods of giving permissions to Incredibuild.

      • While Incredibuild only requires certain permissions, for the sake of making the integration easier you can provide addition permissions to save yourself manual work. To do this, select Yes I do. No additional information will be used by Incredibuild. This option requires an AWS user with admin permissions.

      • However, if you are concerned with giving Incredibuild too many permissions, you can select I'm not sure. This will require additional steps below to manually provide the minimum required permissions, and requires you to sign in with as AWS user who does not have admin permissions.

    2. Click Login and enter the Access Key and Secret of a user that matches the selection of the first page.

    3. If you specified a user with Admin Access permissions, the activation process is complete. Otherwise, continue with this procedure.

    4. Enter the required login details. To learn how to find these values, see Obtaining the Required AWS Login Details. To learn more about these settings, see Amazon's documentation about ARNs and External IDs.

    1. On the Incredibuild Cloud – Azure Login page, you need to choose with which Azure roles you want to login and activate Incredibuild Cloud – Azure solution:

      After you click the option that is appropriate to your account and needs, on the next page you will be requested to sign in to Azure with an account that matches your selection. For example, if you want to login with a user who has Global Administrator and Owner roles, you need to select the Yes, I Do > Login buttons. Then, on the next step, sign in to Azure with an account that has these roles.

      You have two options for logging into Incredibuild Cloud – Azure solution:-  Sign in to your Azure account with a user that has a Global Administrator and Owner roles.Signing with these roles means that you grant full permissions to Incredibuild Cloud to automatically create for you an Azure AD app and all the required login details.In this case, click the Yes, I Do button.The details of your selection appear. Now, click the Login button:

      -  Sign in to your Azure account with a user who does NOT have Global Administrator and Owner roles.In this case, click the I'm not sure button.The details of your selection appear. Now, click the Login button:

      After clicking one of the Login buttons, the Microsoft Azure Sign in page appears. This page enables you to connect to your cloud account.

    2. On the Azure Sign in page, enter the sign in credentials of your Azure account and click Next. On the following page, enter your password and click Next:Important! Sign in with an account that matches the selection you made in the previous page – either a user account with Global Administrator and Owner roles, or a user account with lower roles.

      Note:

      • If you already signed in to Azure portal, and you have more than one account, the Pick an account page is displayed, allowing you to select an existing account. In this case, select the account that you want to use for Incredibuild Cloud, and click Next.

      • If you have more than one Azure account, and you installed the Coordinator and/or Initiator Agents on Azure platform using one of the accounts, it is recommended to use the same account for this activation process.

      • Your sign in credentials are used for creating and managing VMs in your Azure account, for the sole purpose of accelerating the execution of your tasks. They are not saved on a local machine but as a token on Azure servers, and therefore they are highly secured.The Microsoft – Permissions requested page appears. If after entering your user account details, you receive an error message informing you that your user account does not exist in the tenant 'IncrediCloud', solve this issue by following the instructions in the Incredibuild Cloud Troubleshooting section.    

    3. Depending on the account you selected for logging in, one of the following Microsoft – Permissions requested pages appear:

      • If you selected to log in with Global Administrator and Owner roles, the following page appears:

        In this case, read the request details, and click the Accept button.

      • If you selected to log in with lower roles, a page with fewer permissions appears:

        In this case, read the request details, and select the checkbox – Consent on behalf of your organization. Then, click the Accept button.

       Depending on the account you selected for logging in, one of the following occurs:

      • If you selected to login with Global Administrator and Owner roles, you finished the login procedure, and you arrive at the Settings page.

      • If you selected to log in with lower roles, the second Incredibuild Cloud – Azure Login page appears. In this case, continue to the next step.

    4. On the second Incredibuild Cloud – Azure Login page, enter the required login details as follows:

      To learn how to create these login details, see Obtaining the Required Azure Login Details

    • Tenant ID – the Directory (tenant) ID of the new Azure app. You can find this ID under the title of Directory ID or Tenant ID in several places in Azure portal.>To find your Tenant ID in the new Azure app page:a. Go to the App registration page, and select the new Azure app.b. On the new Azure app page, copy the string that appears in the Directory (tenant) ID field:

    • New Azure AD Application ID – the Application (client) ID of the new Azure app. You can find this ID in several places in Azure portal.> To find your New Azure AD Application ID in the App registration page:a. Go to the App registration page, and locate the new Azure app.b. Copy the string that appears in the Application (client) ID field:

    • Client Secret - the Client Secret or Application Password of the new Azure app. Paste the Client Secret string you saved after its creation. If you do not have a saved Client Secret, you can create a new one, as described in Obtaining the Required Azure Login Details - Creating a New Client Secret section.

  5. If you want to use Spot machines to reduce costs while still maintaining high availability, Enable Spot now.

  6. Continue with Configuring Incredibuild Cloud Settings.