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Client Registration Flow

When a customer is registered in CMP (admin onboarding or self-registration, depending on your payment mode), CMP registers them in OpenStack using the admin connector, then switches to the customer's own credentials for all later API calls.

What happens at registration​

CMP uses the admin project application credential to:

  1. Create the OpenStack user
  2. Create the OpenStack project
  3. Associate setup resources as required (zones, images, flavors)

Details and diagram: Why the admin project is required.

After registration​

All subsequent operations for that customer (VM creation, security groups, volumes, networks, and so on) use the customer's OpenStack user ID and password — not the admin application credential.

See Projects & Credentials.

Documentation in progress

Additional detail (exact timing vs first service create, domain placement, failure retry, admin vs self-registration differences) will be expanded here.