Manage a Cloud.ru Advanced hostprovider

Olga Semme

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

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

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

Actions available for the hostprovider:

Create hosts — creates a group of virtual machines.

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

The purpose of the parameters is given below.

Hosts configuration parameters
Group	Parameter	Description	Default value
—	Count	Number of the created VM	1
—	FQDN	FQDN of the created VM. Virtual machine names are specified in the `<Name>-<Count>` format, numbering starts from 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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