Anaconda Cloud Platform -- Admin Onboarding Guide
This comprehensive onboarding guide provides Business tier administrators with essential knowledge to configure, manage, and secure your organization's Anaconda Platform Cloud. It covers key topics, such as enterprise single sign-on (ESSO), user access control, channel and token management, and package governance, to help you enable true “build once, run anywhere” functionality across environments, clouds, and devices.
What You’ll Learn
Through this guide, you’ll learn:
- User & Access Management
- Configure ESSO for centralized authentication
- Manage user seats, roles, and permissions
- Create and manage groups for controlled access
- Handle user invitations and service accounts (API user onboarding)
- Repository & Channel Management
- Navigate Anaconda's Premium Repository and default channels
- Create virtual, external, and private channels
- Enable and configure the Community Channel (16,000+ open-source packages from conda-forge)
- Control package access through channel permissions
- Security & Compliance
- Apply policy filters to enforce vulnerability thresholds [Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)-based filtering]
- Manage policies based on parameters such as license type, platform architecture, and CVE status
- Track policy changes and receive automated alerts
- Review package security through CVEs, Anaconda signature, and Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs)
- Token & Subscription Management
- Activate and manage individual access or site tokens
- Monitor subscription details and seat utilization
- Configure secure access to your organization's repository
5. Audit Logs Overview
- Track user activities and events in the system for improved transparency and accountability.
- Includes token creation, user modifications, group additions, and organization updates to assist in monitoring changes.
- Filter logs by event type, user actions, organizations, and specific date ranges to streamline searches.
Who This is For
This guide is designed for system administrators responsible for configuring and maintaining Anaconda Platform Cloud within their organization. Admin access to Anaconda Platform Cloud is required to follow along.
Notes:
- Advice for individual Anaconda Platform Cloud users is not within the scope of this guide.
- The contents of this guide are also available as a free self-paced course with how-to videos. To access this Anaconda Platform Cloud: Admin Onboarding course, log in to Anaconda Learning using your Anaconda credentials.
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