Create a OVH sub-account and a user account with OVH API

Objective

We will describe how to create a OVHcloud sub-account in order to create a unique identity that isolates visibility on services, billing. This guide will also show you how to add one or more logins to this sub-account to provide access the OVHcloud control panel.

Requirements

• Being connected on OVHcloud API.

• Having created your credentials for OVHcloud API.

• Having a customer account wih Reseller Tag (contact your sales representative for eligibility if applicable).

Instructions

Ressources

• /me/subAccount
• /me/identity/user

Operation process

Create a sub-account

Retrieve and save the resulting ID.

Create a ConsumerKey for this sub-account

The ConsumerKey allows you to call the OVHcloud API with the identiy of the sub-account.

Create a user for this sub-account

With the previously created ConsumerKey.

• email : add an email address for this user
• login : enter a relevant string for this user
• password : it must meet the requirements of zxcvbn: Low-Budget Password Strength Estimation and be valid by testing it on Pwned Passwords.

Go further

Join our community of users on https://community.ovh.com/en/.