CloudVeneto.it User Guide

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For any issues, questions, problems concerning this document please contact the CloudVeneto admins at support@cloudveneto.it

Note

We heavily took inspiration from CERN’s Openstack user guide when writing this documentation

Contents:

• 1. Overview of CloudVeneto
  • 1.1. Who can use CloudVeneto ?
  • 1.2. Projects
  • 1.3. Network access
  • 1.4. Getting help
    • 1.4.1. Getting help for INFN Padova users
  • 1.5. Acknowledge CloudVeneto / Scientific citations
• 2. Registration, User and Project Management
  • 2.1. Prerequisites for using INFN resources
  • 2.2. Apply for an account
    • 2.2.1. Enrollment procedure through INFN AAI or UniPD SSO
    • 2.2.2. Apply for an account using Username and Password
  • 2.3. Apply for other (new or existing) projects
  • 2.4. Manage project membership requests (only for project managers)
  • 2.5. Administer project members (only for project managers)
  • 2.6. Project membership renewal
  • 2.7. Manage project membership renewal requests (only for project managers)
  • 2.8. Send a message to project members (only for project managers)
  • 2.9. Expired users
• 3. Getting Started
  • 3.1. Access the Cloud through the Dashboard
  • 3.2. Creating a keypair
  • 3.3. Importing your keypair
  • 3.4. Setting security group(s)
  • 3.5. Password management
  • 3.6. Switching between projects
  • 3.7. Accessing the Cloud with command line tools
• 4. Managing Virtual Machines
  • 4.1. Creating Virtual Machines
    • 4.1.1. Creating Virtual Machines from Volumes
  • 4.2. Logging to a VM
    • 4.2.1. Common access problems
  • 4.3. Accessing a VM in the “graphical way”
    • 4.3.1. Configure a AlmaLinux9 VM for remote graphical access
    • 4.3.2. Configure a Ubuntu 22.04 VM for remote graphical access
  • 4.4. Access a service running on the VM
  • 4.5. Copying files to a VM
  • 4.6. Giving a VM public access (getting a floating IP)
  • 4.7. Accessing other hosts/services from Virtual Machines
  • 4.8. Creating accounts on your Virtual Machine
  • 4.9. Flavors
    • 4.9.1. Flavors with supplementary ephemeral disk
  • 4.10. Stopping and Starting VMs
  • 4.11. Contextualisation
  • 4.12. Resizing Virtual Machines
  • 4.13. Suspending Virtual Machines
  • 4.14. Snapshotting Virtual Machines
  • 4.15. Shelving Virtual Machines
  • 4.16. Deleting Virtual Machines
  • 4.17. Migrating an instance to another project/cloud
• 5. Deploying and using Windows VMs (experimental)
  • 5.1. Deploying a Windows VM: step-by-step guide
    • 5.1.1. Select the Windows Image
    • 5.1.2. Create the bootable volume
    • 5.1.3. Launch an instance from the bootable volume
    • 5.1.4. Enable Remote Access via RDP - Setting Security groups(s)
    • 5.1.5. Initial Windows Setup via Console
    • 5.1.6. Install and Configure Windows 10
    • 5.1.7. License Agreement
    • 5.1.8. Installation Mode
    • 5.1.9. Set Up a User Account
    • 5.1.10. Create a Local User Account
    • 5.1.11. Set Security Questions
    • 5.1.12. Privacy and Permissions Settings
    • 5.1.13. Finalizing the Setup
    • 5.1.14. Windows Activation
  • 5.2. Using an Existing Windows License from a Physical Machine
    • 5.2.1. KMS License Activation (INFN Staff Only)
  • 5.3. Connecting to the Windows VM via Remote Desktop from Windows
  • 5.4. Connecting to the Windows VM via Remote Desktop from Linux
  • 5.5. Accessing a Windows VM from a network without direct access (SSH tunnel for RDP)
• 6. Managing Containers
  • 6.1. Running docker containers in the Cloud
  • 6.2. Orchestrating containers
• 7. Container-as-a-Service (CaaS) Platform
  • 7.1. Overview
  • 7.2. OSNodes vs Nodes
  • 7.3. Architecture
  • 7.4. Security
  • 7.5. Accessing the CaaS
  • 7.6. Configuring kubectl with the kubectl-openstack plugin
    • 7.6.1. Prerequisites
    • 7.6.2. Plugin installation
    • 7.6.3. Usage
  • 7.7. How to Create and Manage OSNodes
    • 7.7.1. Prerequisites
    • 7.7.2. Creating a new OSNode
    • 7.7.3. Verifying the OSNode status
    • 7.7.4. Removing OSNodes
    • 7.7.5. Getting details about your OSNode
    • 7.7.6. Runnind Pods on Shared Nodes
• 8. Managing GPUs
  • 8.1. Reserving a GPU
  • 8.2. Creating a GPU instance
  • 8.3. Storage for GPU instances
  • 8.4. Images for GPU instances
  • 8.5. What do do when your reservation expires
  • 8.6. Monitoring
  • 8.7. Policies
• 9. Managing Storage
  • 9.1. Ephemeral storage
  • 9.2. Volumes
    • 9.2.1. Create a Volume
    • 9.2.2. Using (attaching) a Volume
    • 9.2.3. Detaching a Volume
    • 9.2.4. Deleting a Volume
    • 9.2.5. Sharing a volume between multiple (virtual) machines
    • 9.2.6. Transferring the ownership of a volume to another user
  • 9.3. Object Storage
    • 9.3.1. Accessing the object storage using the dashboard
    • 9.3.2. Accessing the object storage using the S3 interface
  • 9.4. Accessing storage external to the Cloud
• 10. Resource Orchestration
  • 10.1. Creating a template
  • 10.2. Creating a stack
• 11. Managing Images
  • 11.1. Public Images
    • 11.1.1. Public Images for INFN Padova users
  • 11.2. Private Images
  • 11.3. Shared Images
  • 11.4. Community images
  • 11.5. Building Images
    • 11.5.1. virt-customize
  • 11.6. Deleting Images
  • 11.7. Migrating an image to another cloud
• 12. Creating Batch Clusters on the Cloud
  • 12.1. Creating a personal SLURM cluster on CloudVeneto
• 13. Some basics on Linux administration
  • 13.1. Introduction
  • 13.2. Setting up ‘sudo’
  • 13.3. Managing software through the package manager
    • 13.3.1. Managing software on RH distributions
    • 13.3.2. Managing software on DEB distributions
  • 13.4. Adding a user to your VM
  • 13.5. Formatting/resizing a volume you just attached
  • 13.6. Automatically remount volumes on reboot
  • 13.7. Specific instructions relevant for INFN-Padova and Physics Dept. users
    • 13.7.1. Install Mathematica
• 14. Who can access my data stored on CloudVeneto ?
  • 14.1. Who can read the data stored on my virtual machine ?
  • 14.2. Who can read the data stored on a volume ?
  • 14.3. Who can read the data stored on a object storage bucket ?
  • 14.4. Can the CloudVeneto administrators read my data ?
  • 14.5. Who can read my data if I use a INFN-Padova public image ?
• 15. Frequently Asked Questions
  • 15.1. Account renewal and expiration
  • 15.2. Problems accessing my virtual machine via SSH
  • 15.3. I can’t see anymore my data
  • 15.4. Problems with supplementary ephemeral storage

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