Manual

Create a image

Input image name, url and architecture into create image tab and submit, wait till the image status become available.

Create a flavor

With allinone installation, a flavor named m1.tiny is created already, you can create more with your desired number of cpu, memory and disk size.

Create a key

To create a key, simply input key name and public key into fields and submit. If you don't have a key already, use command ssh-keygen -f /path/to/your_key to generate one.

Create a subnet

You can specify a name with valid network, netmask, gateway, start and end into fields and submit. Make sure no conflict among your fields. Admin can create public or private and specify a vlan number, normal user can only create internal subnet with a random vxlan id. For what is public or private vlan, refer to network section in operation guide

Create a security group with rules

A default security group named username:default is created when user is created. You can modify it, delete it or create new ones. The default security group has icmp and port 22 opened.

Launch an instance

With all the above, it is straightforward to create an instance via gui now. if you are admin, you can create instance on public or private subnets directly, otherwise you can only create instance on your own internal subnets. To create the instance to be probisioned, you must create a gateway, and then create a floating ip or portmap to access it.

Create a gateway

To create a gateway, you can specify a name or choose what kind of network the gateway wants to route, it can be public, private or both, if you don't know what it is, leave it blank.

Create a floating IP

After you create a gateway, you can choose a instance from the drop down menu and create a floating ip to it.

Create a portmap

You can use portmap to access your VM as well, for example, create a portmap to access an instance' port 22.