Access the cloud service

Openstack web interface

Get a cloud account

Please submit a ticket on our user support specifying:

an explicit request for access to the CC-IN2P3 IaaS cloud platform,
the type of instances desired, the complete documentation is here:
- HA type
- R&D type
the application framework (organization, laboratory, requesting group, experiment),
a description of the objectives pursued (what IT services? What benefits and beneficiaries?),
the desired resource quota (number of instances, vCPUs, total memory, total storage capacity). Quotas can be redefined at any time,
the number of public IP addresses,
the network ACLs to the resources: specify the flows from/to the service, CC-IN2P3 and/or outside world in the form:
```
source:port -> destination:port protocol
```
the expected service lifetime of the desired resources.

Access your own instances

Once the required systems are instantiated, you just have to connect to the machine’s root account with the SSH key required at instantiation.

Example: with a VM instantiated with the key mykey, which private part is stored in ~/.cc-cloud-creds/mykey and a VM IP being 134.158.246.3, then use the command:

% ssh -i ~/.cc-cloud-creds/mykey root@134.158.246.3

For the sake of simplicity, consider modifying your .ssh/config configuration file by adding the following block:

Host 134.158.246.*
     User root
     PasswordAuthentication no
     IdentityFile ~/.cc-cloud-creds/mykey
     IdentitiesOnly yes
     PubkeyAuthentication yes
     Protocol 2
     ForwardX11 no
     ForwardAgent no