Translated from 日本語 • View original Until you prepare an API environment in IDC Frontier's self-cloud Part 1 Start the server
Nice to meet you. This is Miyashita, who is in charge of the platform.
I would like to guide you through the basic flow of how to use the "IDC Frontier Cloud Self Type" that I have been using for a long time.
As a company, this time, I would like to explain the simple process to start a virtual machine.
Each company has its own management console for public clouds, and each has its own set of rules until you get used to it. I would like to touch on that aspect in the future.
- Virtual Machine Creation
After logging in with the user/password you created, start creating a virtual machine from Home → Dashboard.
- Choose an OS
Next, decide which OS to boot. If you scroll through the list, you will find many templates that are provided by standard, so please do your best to find the OS type you are looking for.
(If you don't specify an OS, you can choose from LATEST and decide whether you need middleware or not.)
This time, I want to create an environment that uses API tools, so I choose LATEST's LAMP environment OS.
〔[LATEST] LAMP or LVS(keepalived) or HAProxy or API Access Tool or Scalr or Elecoma or Yahoo! Cloud Storage Access Tools〕
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- Selection of machine specs
Next, decide on the specifications of the server.
I think this is the same in any cloud. We choose the most suitable machine specifications according to the required application.
This time, I will select the smallest [XS] (1 CPU/0.5 GB memory).
- Select additional DISK
Next, configure the additional DISK.
If you want to use a large amount of space such as content and logs in addition to OS data, add a DISK here.
You can add it later, so if you don't need it, you can proceed without adding it. Please note that this time it is for API tools, so we will not add a DISK.
- Set up SSH keys
Finally, set the SSH key.
When you first start, you don't have an SSH key registered yet, so create a new SSH key.
The generated private key will be required for SSH connection and when using API tools, so keep it safe.
- Virtual machine application
Finalize the registration and start creating a virtual machine.
If there is no difference in the content, check to agree and select [Apply] to start creating.
Be careful when creating your first virtual machine. Check what is written in the red notice.
This is the unique point of NOAH.
・When building the first machine, the routing environment is also built at the same time, so it takes a lot of time (about 30 minutes).
(It is better not to do any other work)
・When the machine is built, the root password will be displayed on the screen. Until then, I won't move to other pages.
(You can reissue it by resetting the root password without looking at it.)
After that, I continued to wait and the completion screen was replaced, and the virtual machine started safely.
From the second large, it will be easier to create, and in the future, we will use the API to create it, so we will publish the method in the future.
In the next article, we will explain network-related settings and SSH connections. (planned)