Create Cloud Subscription Pool

Cloud Subscription Pools are used by labs to provision Cloud Slice labs in a load balanced fashion. As users launch a Cloud Slice lab, they will be given access to a slice of one of the available Subscriptions in the Cloud Subscription Pool associated with the lab. Even if you are only using one managed Cloud Subscription, you still must create a Cloud Subscription Pool. This setup allows you to add additional subscriptions to your subscription pool later, at which point you will gain the benefits of the load balancing support that the platform provides.

Load balancing evenly distributes Cloud Slice labs across subscriptions in a Cloud Subscription Pool. When a user launches a Cloud Slice lab, they are provided with a slice of whichever subscription in the pool has the lightest load (the lowest number of users) at the time. This load balancing distributes resource load across all of the subscriptions in the pool, which can help keep resource counts lower, avoiding any maximum limits that the subscriptions in the pool have on specific resource types.

Add a Cloud Credential Pool

To add a Cloud Subscription Pool to Skillable Studio , perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Skillable Studio  portal and sign in.

2. Open the Subscription Pools section on the Cloud Services tile.

3. Select Create Cloud Subscription Pool to create a new cloud subscription pool in Skillable Studio .

4. Select a cloud platform from the Cloud Platform drop-down menu.

5. Select a pool type from the Pool Type drop-down menu. (choose Manual for Azure or choose Automated for AWS)

6. Select a subscription mode from the Subscription Mode drop-down menu. (choose Shared for Azure or choose Dedicated for AWS)

7. Assign values to Name, Organization, and any optional fields you want to use.

   Field Name	Description
   Name (required)	The name of the Cloud Subscription Pool being created.
   Description	The Description should describe the capabilities or the intent of the Subscription Pool.
   Organization (required)	The organization in Skillable Studio  where the managed Cloud Subscription pool will be used.
   Enabled	This checkbox determines if the Cloud Subscription Pool is enabled or disabled.
   Custom subscription unavailable message	This message will be presented to users if they try to launch a lab and a subscription is unavailable. If this field is blank, the default message will be used.
   Enable Health Checks	Enable health checks across all subscriptions in this pool. Skillable Studio  will periodically check the subscription for configuration errors and other potential problems.
   Health Check Interval	Health check frequency. The health checks for each subscription will be completed at the specified interval.
   Enabled	Enables the subscription pool for use. Unchecking this box will disable the subscription pool.

8. On the Authentication Tab, assign values to Tenant Name, Application ID, and Application Secret.

   Field Name	Description
   Tenant Name	The name of the tenant used for deployment of Cloud Slices in your cloud service.
   Application Id	The identifier that uniquely identifies the client used to manage your cloud service subscription.
   Application Secret	The secret used to authenticate your client id in your cloud service subscription.

9. If you are configuring a cloud subscription pool for AWS, On the Automation Tab, assign values to Number of Subscriptions and Subscription Name Prefix.

10. Select Save to create the Cloud Subscription Pool.