Infomaniak — Setup

Overview

In this guide you will:

1. Open your Public Cloud project in the Infomaniak Manager.
2. Open the Horizon dashboard for that project.
3. Create a scoped Application Credential (an ID + secret pair).
4. End with that ID + secret + region, which you hand to the app in Infomaniak — Key handoff.

The Application Credential is project-scoped, so PhoenixVPS can only act inside the one project — never your other Infomaniak resources. Your account password is never shared.

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Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure you have:

• An Infomaniak account, signed in.
• A Public Cloud project in that account. The project itself costs nothing up front (you’re billed monthly only for what your servers use), but ordering one requires a phone identity check and a payment card on file. If you don’t have a project yet, order one first — see the note in Step 1.
• The PhoenixVPS app installed on your device.

Identity verification required at signup

Infomaniak is an EU provider with strict identity checks (KYC). Creating an account and ordering Public Cloud requires verifying your identity — typically a photo ID plus a selfie. Allow extra time: a new account may not be usable until that verification clears.

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A note on Infomaniak’s two portals

Infomaniak has two separate web portals, and it’s easy to land on the wrong one:

• Manager (manager.infomaniak.com) — the administration console, where Public Cloud lives.
• kSuite — the mail/productivity portal. The login page at login.infomaniak.com sends you here by default.

If you end up in kSuite, switch over: click My Applications (the grid icon, top-right of the screen), then choose Access Manager. (The same menu has Access kSuite to switch back.)

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Step 1 — Open your Public Cloud project

Go to https://manager.infomaniak.com/ and sign in. In the left sidebar, click Cloud Computing, then Public Cloud.

What you see: Your Public Cloud projects, each named PCP-xxxxxx. (If the page says “You have no Public Cloud”, order a project first — see Prerequisites.)

Open your project (use a dedicated project for the VPN so the credential stays isolated).

First time? Ordering a project

If you have no project yet, click Order a Public Cloud. The order flow is short: name your cloud → confirm your identity by phone → decline the Swiss Backup add-on → review and confirm. Throughout, the Amount payable shows 0,00 € — Public Cloud has no up-front cost; you’re billed at the end of each month for what your servers actually use. A payment card must be on file and you accept the Special Terms to finish, but no charge occurs until you run a server.

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Step 2 — Open the Horizon dashboard

From the project, open the Horizon dashboard (OpenStack’s web console). In PhoenixVPS’s Infomaniak Public Cloud panel you can click Open Horizon Dashboard to go straight there.

What you see: The Horizon dashboard for your project, with a navigation menu down the left side (Project, Compute, Network, Identity, …).

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Step 3 — Open Application Credentials

In the Horizon left menu, open Identity → Application Credentials.

What you see: The Application Credentials list (empty if you haven’t made one) and a Create Application Credential button.

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Step 4 — Create a member Application Credential

Click Create Application Credential and fill in the dialog:

1. Name: type something you’ll recognise, such as PhoenixVPS.
2. Roles: select member.
3. Leave Unrestricted unchecked. (Unrestricted would widen the credential’s powers — PhoenixVPS does not need it.)

Leave the other fields (Secret, Expiration, Project) at their defaults, then click Create Application Credential.

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Step 5 — Copy the ID and secret

What you see: A confirmation showing the new credential’s ID and Secret (there is usually a Download openrc file / Download clouds.yaml option too).

Copy both the ID and the Secret.

The secret is shown only once

Horizon displays the Secret only at this moment. If you close the dialog without copying it, you cannot retrieve it — you’d have to delete the credential and create a new one. Do not paste either value into chat, email, or any document; they go only into PhoenixVPS.

Also note your region (the app pre-selects dc3-a); you’ll choose it during handoff.

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Next step

Take the ID, secret, and region to Infomaniak — Key handoff to connect PhoenixVPS.