Manage a Cloud.ru Advanced hostprovider

This article describes the main actions available in the ADCM interface for managing the Cloud.ru Advanced hostprovider.

Actions with the hostprovider are performed on the Hostproviders page.

Click the icon actions default dark actions default light to open a list of available actions and select an action to perform.

Hostprovider actions
Hostprovider actions
Hostprovider actions
Hostprovider actions

When you select an action, ADCM displays a dialog box to confirm your selection. In this dialog box, you can select the Verbose check box to view additional information about the execution of the action on the Jobs page.

Action confirmation
Action confirmation
Action confirmation
Action confirmation

Once an activity is started, ADCM displays its execution progress and result on the Jobs page. From this page you can go to the page of an individual task (by clicking on the task name) to see the internal stages of its execution and analyze errors if they occur.

Create hosts job page
Create hosts job page
Create hosts job page
Create hosts job page

Actions available for the hostprovider:

  • Create hosts — creates a group of virtual machines.

    NOTE
    Do not use the Create hosts action for products that require FQDNs. Use the Create host → Init action on the Hosts page instead.

    After selecting an action in the window that opens, set the Show advanced switch to active, fill in the necessary parameters, and click Save. Required parameters are highlighted in red.

    Configuration parameters for creating hosts
    Configuration parameters for creating hosts
    .Configuration parameters for creating hosts
    Configuration parameters for creating hosts

    The purpose of the parameters is given below.

    Hosts configuration parameters
    Group Parameter Description Default value

     — 

    Count

    Number of the created VM

    1

     — 

    FQDN

    A prefix for names of virtual machines. Every name is formed according to the <FQDN>-<VM number>.<Domain zone> template. VM numbers start with 1. If there is only one virtual machine to be created and a numbering suffix is ​​not needed, a host should be created on the Hosts page

     — 

     — 

    Additional users groups

    Adds the user to additional Linux groups when the virtual machine is initialized. For example, in an Altlinux image, the user ansible should be added to the wheel group

     — 

    instance

    Cloud-init timeout

    Timeout for cloud-init to finish running tasks, in seconds

    300

    Assign public ip

    Set to true if a public IP address needs to be added

    false

    Assign secondary NIC

    Set to true if it is necessary to connect an additional network interface to a virtual machine in the specified subnet

    false

    ADCM control connection address type

    Private or public address for connecting to a virtual machine

    private

    Init script

    Initialization script

     — 

    Availability Zone

    Cloud.ru Advanced data centers located in different regions of Russia. Currently, Cloud.ru Advanced has three zones: ru-moscow-1a, ru-moscow-1b, ru-moscow-1c

    AZ1

    Image family

    A family of operating systems on the basis of which virtual machines will be created. The newest image from the specified family will be used

    CentOS 7.6

    Image id

    Latest imageID for the provided Image Family

     — 

    Flavor

    A VM configuration that defines the characteristics of its resources. The template determines the number and type of CPU, the amount of RAM, and some other VM parameters

    s7n.medium.2

    Disk type

    Disk type. One of: High I/O, Ultra-High I/O

    High I/O

    Disk size, GB

    Disk size

    50

    Additional disks (JSON)

    Additional disk parameters in JSON format. For example:

     [{ "name": "disk1", "type": "SAS", "size": 20 }, { "name": "disk2", "type": "SSD", "size": 10 }]

     — 

    Security Group IDs

    An optional field where you can set default Security Group ID value for all created virtual machines. If the Security Group IDs values ​​are set simultaneously in the hostprovider settings and when creating the VM, then priority is given to the latter

     — 

    Labels

    Sets the labels values ​​for the created virtual machine. If the Labels values ​​are set simultaneously in the hostprovider settings and when creating the VM, then priority is given to the latter

     — 

  • Create users — creates users. When the action runs, the users specified in the metadata group during configuration of the Cloud.ru Advanced hostprovider are created on all virtual machines.

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