The Turbonomic Buy Reserved Instances Recommendations AWS policy utilizes Turbonomic Actions API endpoint (POST https://turbonomic.com/api/v3/markets/{market_uuid}/actions
) to provide AWS RI purchase recommendations.
- The policy queries the /api/v3/markets/{market_uuid}/actions endpoint for the Turbonomic api and based on action will return action details and savings for on-boarded cloud instances
- Turbonomic Audience - Audience configured on the Turbonomic instance
- Turbonomic Host - Host of the Turbonomic endpoint.
- Email addresses - A list of email addresses to notify
- Send an email report
This Policy Template uses Credentials for authenticating to datasources -- in order to apply this policy you must have a Credential registered in the system that is compatible with this policy. If there are no Credentials listed when you apply the policy, please contact your Flexera Org Admin and ask them to register a Credential that is compatible with this policy. The information below should be consulted when creating the credential(s).
- [Turbonomic Credential] The policy requires basic Turbonomic authentication credentials, ensure your Turbonomic credentials meet the following OAuth 2.0 authentication criteria:
- On the Turbonomic side:
- Ensure OAuth 2.0 authentication is enabled for your Turbonomic instance by adding
spec.oauth2.enabled: true
to your custom resource (CR) file. - Specify a unique audience value (
spec.properties.global.oauth2.audience
) in the custom resource (CR) file. This policy template use default value offlexera
for audience parameter, but you can customize it with any unique string value and use that value. - Utilize the Turbonomic API to create an OAuth 2.0 client, configuring it with
role:OBSERVER
and usingclient_secret_basic
forclientAuthenticationMethods
.
- Ensure OAuth 2.0 authentication is enabled for your Turbonomic instance by adding
- On the Flexera side:
- Add Turbonomic credentials using the provided
clientId
andclientSecret
. - Ensure the credential is tagged with
provider=turbonomic
and useBasic Auth
for Credential Type.
- Add Turbonomic credentials using the provided
- On the Turbonomic side:
The Provider-Specific Credentials page in the docs has detailed instructions for setting up Credentials for the most common providers.
- AWS
This policy template does not incur any cloud costs.