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

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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. Resource users and administrators
  • 1.3. Projects
  • 1.4. Network access
  • 1.5. Getting help
    • 1.5.1. Getting help for INFN Padova users
  • 1.6. Acknowledge CloudVeneto / Scientific citations
• 2. Registration
  • 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 projects
  • 2.4. Manage project membership requests (only for project managers)
  • 2.5. Administer project members (only for project managers)
  • 2.6. Manage account renewals (only for project managers)
  • 2.7. Send a message to project members (only for project managers)
  • 2.8. 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
    • 3.5.1. Foreword
    • 3.5.2. Setting/changing password
  • 3.6. Switching between projects
  • 3.7. Accessing the Cloud with command line tools
  • 3.8. Accessing the Cloud through the euca2ools EC2 command line tools
• 4. Managing Virtual Machines
  • 4.1. Creating Virtual Machines
    • 4.1.1. Improve reliability: creating Virtual Machines from Volumes
  • 4.2. Accessing Virtual Machines
  • 4.3. Logging to a VM
    • 4.3.1. Common access problems
  • 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. Creating accounts on your Virtual Machine
  • 4.8. Accessing other hosts/services from Virtual Machines
  • 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. Managing Containers
  • 5.1. Running docker containers in the Cloud
  • 5.2. Orchestrating containers
• 6. Managing GPUs
  • 6.1. Reserving a GPU
  • 6.2. Creating a GPU instance
  • 6.3. Storage for GPU instances
  • 6.4. Images for GPU instances
  • 6.5. What do do when your reservation expires
  • 6.6. Monitoring
  • 6.7. Policies
• 7. Managing Storage
  • 7.1. Ephemeral storage
  • 7.2. Volumes
    • 7.2.1. Create a Volume
    • 7.2.2. Using (attaching) a Volume
    • 7.2.3. Detaching a Volume
    • 7.2.4. Deleting a Volume
    • 7.2.5. Sharing a volume between multiple (virtual) machines
    • 7.2.6. Transferring the ownership of a volume to another user
  • 7.3. Object Storage
    • 7.3.1. Accessing the object storage using the dashboard
    • 7.3.2. Accessing the object storage using the S3 interface
  • 7.4. Accessing storage external to the Cloud
• 8. Orchestration
  • 8.1. Creating a template
  • 8.2. Creating a stack
• 9. Managing Images
  • 9.1. Public Images
    • 9.1.1. Public Images for INFN Padova users
  • 9.2. Private Images
  • 9.3. Shared Images
  • 9.4. Community images
  • 9.5. Building Images
    • 9.5.1. virt-customize
  • 9.6. Deleting Images
  • 9.7. Migrating an image to another cloud
• 10. Creating Batch Clusters on the Cloud
  • 10.1. Intro: the idea
  • 10.2. Creating Batch Clusters on the Cloud with HTCondor
    • 10.2.1. Prerequisites
    • 10.2.2. The cluster configuration
    • 10.2.3. Start the elastic cluster
    • 10.2.4. How slave nodes are installed and configured
    • 10.2.5. Use the elastic cluster
    • 10.2.6. Use the elastic cluster to run docker containers
    • 10.2.7. How to find the EC2 (AMI) id of an image
    • 10.2.8. Restart the elastic cluster
    • 10.2.9. Troubleshooting the elastic cluster
• 11. Some basics on Linux administration
  • 11.1. Introduction
  • 11.2. Setting up ‘sudo’
  • 11.3. Managing software through the package manager
    • 11.3.1. Managing software on RH distributions
    • 11.3.2. Managing software on DEB distributions
  • 11.4. Adding a user to your VM
  • 11.5. Formatting/resizing a volume you just attached
  • 11.6. Automatically remount volumes on reboot
  • 11.7. Specific instructions relevant for INFN-Padova users
    • 11.7.1. Install Mathematica (only for INFN Padova users)
• 12. Frequently Asked Questions

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