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OVHcloud

Manage OVH public cloud projects and services.

What you can manage

Public Cloud instances
Managed Kubernetes
Block Storage volumes
Object Storage
Load Balancers
Private Networks
Floating IPs
Gateways
Public Cloud Databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, OpenSearch, Cassandra, M3DB, Grafana)

Credentials

Generate API credentials at the OVH API token page with the scopes you need, then paste:

Application Key and Application Secret — identify your app to the OVH API.
Consumer Key — the per-user grant returned when the token is validated.
API Endpoint — region: eu (Europe), ca (Canada), or us (United States).
Public Cloud Project ID — the project to manage.

OVH Add-account form with application key / secret / consumer key / endpoint / project fields

Notable flows

SSH terminal on public cloud instances.
Block volume attachment to instances in the same region.
Peer-plugin tabs on managed databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, and OpenSearch clusters open the matching client plugin’s tab with the endpoint pre-filled. OVH never returns user passwords after creation, so the peer tab works for users whose password Infrawrench captured at create time; pre-existing users need a rotated password pasted in.

Tips & limits

OVH’s API is organized by region (eu, us, ca). Make sure the token has scope for every region you plan to use.
Consumer keys can be time-limited — pay attention to expiry when creating.

Cost graphs

OVHcloud accounts feed cost graphs & budgets from bills (/me/bill) plus current unbilled consumption — pre-tax amounts on bill dates, broken down by service.

The consumer key needs access rules for GET /me/bill* and GET /me/consumption*. Without the consumption rule, invoiced history still collects and only the current-period preview is missing.