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The IONOS AI Model Hub grants access to users with authentication tokens. An authentication token is a unique string assigned to a specific user. Do not share your authentication tokens with others; each authentication token grants access to modifying or using the corresponding IONOS solutions.
The IONOS authentication tokens used for the AI Model Hub are bound to users of our public cloud offering. The central advantage of this approach is that existing users can use their authentication tokens to access the AI Model Hub with no or only minor changes. However, new users interested solely in the AI Model Hub must first create a public cloud contract.
This tutorial helps both new and existing users to get access to the AI Model Hub.
This tutorial is intended for users without prior programming knowledge.
By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:
Create a new contract for the IONOS Public Cloud offering.
Add and edit users to gain access to the AI Model Hub.
Generate an authentication token for an existing user.
If you have an existing contract with IONOS Public Cloud, you can directly log into the DCD and proceed with adding and editing users to gain access to the AI Model Hub.
To create a public cloud contract, proceed as follows:
Open the IONOS signup page.
Select the Country you are living in.
Enter your Email address and a Password you want to use.
Accept the Pricing and Terms and Conditions by marking the corresponding checkbox.
Click Test now.
The page with the details will look similar to this:
You are now informed that you will receive an email from IONOS. Remember to click on the hyperlink specified in this email to validate your email address.
After confirming the email address is valid, enter the following details:
Enter your First Name and Last Name.
Enter your Phone Number.
Click Test now.
Your IONOS Public Cloud contract is now created and can be used to log in.
After logging in, you can with the new contract for the first time, you can neither create new users nor generate authentication tokens. To do this, you have to "activate unlimited access" by entering your contact data:
Click Get full access on the top of the screen.
Enter your Street address, ZIP and the City you life in.
CLick Save and Continue.
After entering the contact data, please specify your payment details:
Select whether to specify your Credit Card data our SEPA Direct Debit data.
Enter the relevant information.
Click Save and Continue
We now manually check whether the data you provided is correct. After this evaluation, we inform you and actiate unlimited access. This process can take up to 24 hours.
Every contract owner has sufficient rights to access the AI Model Hub. In addition, the contract owner can use every API endpoint of the IONOS Public Cloud offering. That is, the contract owner can create new users, setup infrastructure in the IONOS cloud and configure existing setups.
We therefore suggest that you create a new user to be specifically used for the AI Model Hub and grant this user only the rights they will need.
You can create a corresponding user in a few simple steps.
You first need to log into the Data Center Designer (DCD) our frontend for our Public Cloud offering:
Open the URL https://dcd.ionos.com in a browser.
Enter the Email address and the Password you specified when creating your Public Cloud contract.
Click Sign in.
The filled screen is similar to:
Next open the IONOS User Manager by clicking "Management" -> "Users & Groups".
In the User Manager you create a new user group:
Click Groups -> + Create.
Enter a name for your user group in the field Group Name.
Click Create.
You have now created a new user group without any rights.
To grant your new user group the necessary access rights:
Select your user group in the left part of the screen.
Your Group Name is now displayed in the upper right area of the screen.
Scroll to the end of the list in the lower right part of the screen.
Select the checkbox for Access and manage AI Model Hub.
Your user group is now granted access to the AI Model Hub.
Next, create a user and add this user to the newly created user group:
Click Users -> + Create.
Enter First Name, Last Name, Email and Password for this user.
Click Create.
The new user is now created.
To add the new user to the user group with access rights to the AI Model Hub:
Click Users in the IONOS User Manager.
Select the newly generated User in the left part of the screen.
Select Groups in the right area of the screen.
Click + Add to Group.
Click on the name of the newly created group.
Your user is now in the user group of the AI Model Hub and can access to corresponding service.
To generate an authentication token log into the Data Center Designer (DCD) our frontend for our Public Cloud offering with the user for which you want to create an authentication token.
In our example, log out of the contract owner’s account and log in with the newly created user account to proceed with token generation.
After logging in, create a token as follows:
Click Management -> Token Management.
Select the Time to Live (TTL). This is the duration for which the authentication token is valid.
Click Generate Token.
On the next screen you are shown the authentication token. Click "Download" to save this token locally or mark and copy it.
Note:
You need to copy your authentication token in this step. It will not be displayed afterwards in any dialog and you have no chance to recover the authentication token, if you missed copying it here.
In this tutorial, you learned how to create an authentication token for the IONOS AI Model Hub.
Namely, you learned how to:
Create a new contract for the IONOS Public Cloud.
Create a new user with the access rights to use the AI Model Hub.
Create an authentication token to use with the API of the AI Model Hub.
