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

Contents:

• 1. Overview of CloudVeneto
  • 1.1. Projects
  • 1.2. Network access
  • 1.3. Getting help
  • 1.4. Acknowledge CloudVeneto / Scientific citations
• 2. Registration
  • 2.1. Apply for an account
    • 2.1.1. Enrollment procedure through INFN AAI or UniPD SSO
    • 2.1.2. Apply for an account using Username and Password
  • 2.2. Apply for other projects
  • 2.3. Manage project membership requests (only for project managers)
  • 2.4. Administer project members (only for project managers)
  • 2.5. Manage account renewals (only for project managers)
• 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
    • 4.3.2. Copying files to a VM
    • 4.3.3. Giving a VM public access (getting a floating IP)
  • 4.4. Accessing other hosts/services from Virtual Machines
  • 4.5. Flavors
  • 4.6. Stopping and Starting VMs
  • 4.7. Contextualisation
  • 4.8. Resizing Virtual Machines
  • 4.9. Snapshotting Virtual Machines
  • 4.10. Deleting Virtual Machines
• 5. Managing GPUs
  • 5.1. Creating a GPU instance
    • 5.1.1. Images for GPU instances
  • 5.2. Monitoring
  • 5.3. Policies
• 6. Managing Storage
  • 6.1. Ephemeral storage
  • 6.2. Volumes
    • 6.2.1. Create a Volume
    • 6.2.2. Using (attaching) a Volume
    • 6.2.3. Detaching a Volume
    • 6.2.4. Deleting a Volume
    • 6.2.5. Sharing a volume between multiple (virtual) machines
  • 6.3. Accessing storage external to the Cloud
• 7. Orchestration
  • 7.1. Creating a template
  • 7.2. Creating a stack
• 8. Managing Images
  • 8.1. Public Images
    • 8.1.1. Public Images for INFN Padova users
  • 8.2. User Provided Images
  • 8.3. Sharing Images
  • 8.4. Building Images
    • 8.4.1. virt-builder
  • 8.5. Deleting Images
• 9. Creating Batch Clusters on the Cloud
  • 9.1. Intro: the idea
  • 9.2. Creating Batch Clusters on the Cloud with HTCondor
    • 9.2.1. Prerequisites
    • 9.2.2. The cluster configuration
    • 9.2.3. Start the elastic cluster
    • 9.2.4. How slave nodes are installed and configured
    • 9.2.5. Use the elastic cluster
    • 9.2.6. Use the elastic cluster to run docker containers
    • 9.2.7. How to find the EC2 (AMI) id of an image
    • 9.2.8. Restart the elastic cluster
    • 9.2.9. Troubleshooting the elastic cluster
• 10. Creating Kubernetes Clusters on the Cloud
  • 10.1. Intro: the idea
  • 10.2. System requirements
  • 10.3. Getting Started
  • 10.4. Deployment on the cloud
  • 10.5. How to access your Kubernetes cluster
    • 10.5.1. Kubectl
    • 10.5.2. Kubernetes Dashboard
  • 10.6. Testing your Kubernetes cluster
    • 10.6.1. Launching the Spark application spark-pi
    • 10.6.2. Creating a Kafka cluster with a topic
• 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. Enabling INFN Padova LDAP based authentication on the Virtual Machine
    • 11.7.2. Install Mathematica (only for INFN Padova users)
• 12. Miscellaneous topics
  • 12.1. Migrating an image to another cloud
  • 12.2. Migrating an instance to another project/cloud

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