Entitlement & Eligibility

In a Nutshell

An entitlement is given to users by its home organization and carries information about the eligibility. An eligibility is the privilege to consume resources within a project and therefore for generating costs.

➡️ More information in the guide about Entitlement & Eligibility.

FAQ

What is the difference between flavor, quota, and quota flavors?

• Flavor (or VM flavor) is a defined set of resources (core, RAM, storage) that be chosen as the size of an instance.
• Quota (or project quota) is the amount of resources (core, RAM, storage, network, volume, etc) a project ran consume or bind.
• Quota flavors is a defined set of project quotas that can be chosen as the size of a project.

As a customer (institute): What do I need to prepare my IDM for the bwCloud-OS Gen3?

• You need to set the access entitlement for all members.
• Every member needs a quota flavors to start using. It may be great to cover 95% of your use cases with this.
• For the other 5%, the power users, extra entitlements must be managed.

Is a centralized service planned to manage eligibility directly in the bwCloud-OS?

Not yet. You want a service where the owner of a cost center can define rules for rolling out eligibility? And you want to control who is allowed to manage which cost center and user group and is allowed to see what set of information? But this sounds like a complex service. You also would like to create rules based on information like the faculty of a student or if the employee is part of the library. But do you really want to forward all of this information to a service outside the scope of your institution?

There are plenty of questions the bwCloud-OS needs to address to their customers before it gets clear what kind of centralized service actually is needed and weather it will be accepted.

What entitlement do I need to become a member of an existing project?

There is no entitlement required to become a member of an existing project. New project members can be added anytime.

Can I use the same entitlement or eligibility for several projects?

No. A user with his eligibility can only be assigned to one project, {0,1}:1 mapping.

I have an entitlement. How can I get a project with quota?

Only once, during the registration of a new user, automatically a (start-)project is created from a given eligibility. Afterward, a user needs to request a new project.

How can I find out which entitlements I am owning?

To inspect your personal data, open the bwIDM services and switch to the rider Shibboleth. Under urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.1.1.7 (eduPersonEntitlement) you can see your entitlement.

What should I do if my account has no bwCloud-OS entitlement assigned?

The assignment of entitlements is exclusively managed by your home institution. The bwCloud-OS team does not have the authority to add or remove entitlements on user accounts. If your account lacks the necessary entitlement, please contact your institution’s central IT service department or service desk.

When will the additional eligibility features be supported?

We are aware that you wish to budget, control, and manage your expenses. Therefore, we designed these features. However, currently we need to get used to a large set of new processes. If the bwCloud-OS accomplishes this, additional features will be supported.