Compute¶
Compute is where your workloads run: instances, the virtual machines, and the pieces that help you start them, place them and keep a number of them running. Find it in a project's menu under Compute.
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Create a virtual machine with its network, public IP, SSH key, firewall, user data and volumes.
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Stop, start, reboot, resize, rebuild, rescue, lock, shelve, rename and delete.
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SSH, the browser console, the console log, networks, public IPs and security groups.
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Public keys copied into new instances so you can log in without a password.
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The operating systems each location offers, instances you saved, and image files you imported.
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Keep instances on different hosts, or together on one.
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Save an instance's settings and launch one to ten like it in one step.
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Keep a number of a template's instances running, replace failed ones, change the count on a schedule.
How compute connects¶
- An instance runs in its project's location and never moves. Its size and image come from that location's catalog.
- It joins one or more of the project's networks and is filtered by security groups. A public IP makes it reachable from the Internet. See Networking.
- Its system disk goes with it. Keep data on a volume, which outlives it. See Storage.
- It can join a load balancer pool when it is created, or later from the load balancer.
Where to start¶
New to NubeStack Cloud? Launch your first instance walks through an SSH key, an instance with a public IP and logging in.