Cloud IaaS

Cloud hosting service provides users with high-end CC-IN2P3 datacenter infrastructure (energy and cooling management, hardware and networks) through a self-service IAAS model in order for them to build their own IT services on top of it. Once access and resources usage quota are granted, the user may deploy virtual servers, storage and networking by the mean of web UI, CLIs or APIs. They will be able to deploy a whole software stack of his choice (OS and softwares) and delegate administration privileges as needed.

If you have any question concerning the Cloud usage not covered by this documentation, please contact our user support.

• Access the cloud service
  • Openstack web interface
  • Get a cloud account
  • Access your own instances

• Terms of use
  • Quota monitoring
  • Security and responsabilities
  • Support
  • Performance
  • Availability

Service usage

• First steps, “Hello cloud!”
  • Provide an SSH key pair
  • Start an instance
  • (optional) Add a public IP
  • Use your instance

• Managing the instances
  • List the running instances
  • Instantiate and delete
  • Pause and restart
  • Suspend and restart
  • Instances metadata

• Image management
  • Best practices for the images
  • Available images in the catalogue
  • Create from a running instance
  • Add an image to the catalogue
  • Download an image from the catalogue
  • Edit metadata
  • Delete an image

• Storage
  • VM main disk
  • Backup management
• Managing the ephemeral storage
  • Choose the amount of ephemeral space
  • Verify the assigned size
  • Storage usage

• Managing server groups
  • Manage a server group
  • Set a specific group for an instance

• Volume management
  • List the instantiated volumes
  • Create and use a volume
  • Volume Snapshot

• Manage filesystems
  • List shares
  • Create and use a share
  • Other useful commands

• Contextualization
  • Valid input sources
  • cloud-config files syntax
  • Execute a script
  • Examples
  • References

Cloud network

• Network access
  • Determine configured network mode
  • IPV6
  • Network ACLs

• Infrastructure network services
  • DNS
  • NTP

• Managing floating IPs
  • List floating IPs
  • Request an additional floating IP
  • Associate a floating IP with an instance
  • Unlink a floating IP from an instance
  • Remove a floating IP from the project
  • Additional information

• Filtering access with “Security Groups”
  • Display help
  • Create a security group
  • Add rules
  • Add the security group to a VM
  • Delete a rule

• Set up a VIP (VRRP)