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Storage Service Plan

Introduction to Storage Service Plan(SSP) management

SODA is aimed at addressing the storage integration challenges of both the Cloud Native environment and traditional IT environment. SODA multi-cloud allows service providers(admin) or users to manage distributed cloud and on-premise environments from a single platform.

SSP management allows service providers to abstract actual cloud or on-premise environments(backends) from their users. In other words, SSP is a policy for the users. A service provider can decide and create different types of SSP policy for different tenants of users.

Getting Started!

This is a guide that shows how to install, configure, and use SSP management features in a simple SODA setup. By following this guide users will be able to install SODA multi-cloud and able to create backends, buckets, upload and archive objects.

Installing SODA multi-cloud

Follow the installation guide for multi-cloud installation.

To enable SSP feature, and experience through SODA Dashboard modify the “enable_storage_service_plans” variable and then install:

group_vars/common.yml
```
enable_storage_service_plans: true
```

SODA Local Cluster Installation through Ansible On Ubuntu (Recommended)

SODA Dashboard - Experience SODA features with GUI

SODA UI can be accessed via

http://{your_host_ip}:8088/#/home

multi-cloud UI image

Create new backend as cloud or on-prem storage: [Admin Operation]

Note: When SSP is enabled, registration of storage backends are only allowed for admin. i.e registration of storage backends are not allowed for users or non-admin users. Because, the main use case of SSP is abstracting the storage backends from users.

Click on (+) for registering a storage backend

multi-cloud backend image

and then provide valid region, endpoint, Access and Secret Key parameters

multi-cloud backend image

Create Storage Service Plan: [Admin Operation]

Note: Again this is an admin operation and non-admin users are not allowed to create service plans. Non-admin users can only list and select the service plan during bucket creation.