Follow the Alibaba Cloud onboarding wizard and Cortex Cloud creates a custom Terraform authentication template to be deployed in Alibaba Cloud.
Cortex Cloud onboarding is the process of connecting your Alibaba Cloud cloud environment to Cortex Cloud so it can continuously monitor and protect your cloud resources. This process establishes secure, least-privilege access using OIDC-based Workload Identity Federation, so no static credentials are stored or exchanged. You gain visibility into your cloud infrastructure through resource discovery and IAM permission analysis.
The onboarding process provisions the infrastructure in your Alibaba Cloud account required to monitor and analyze your cloud resources. The sections below describe the available capabilities, the resources created, the security model, and the step-by-step onboarding process.