Tier-1 Cloud

The VSC cloud platform uses the open-source software OpenStack, version Train. This guide explains the specifics of the VSC environment, and provides a hands-on introduction to OpenStack. For reference, you should consult the OpenStack project’s own documentation at docs.openstack.org.

Additionally, you can consult this demo video. It demonstrates how to authenticate and launch a virtual machine, and how to deploy Linux and Windows VMs using Terraform.

For all questions concerning the VSC cloud computing platform, please contact cloud@vscentrum.be.

We welcome your feedback, comments and suggestions for improving the OpenStack VSC Tutorial.

• Access to the VSC Cloud
  • Dashboard Login
  • Application Credentials
• The OpenStack Dashboard
  • Project tab
  • Identity tab
• Orchestration Using Terraform
  • Create application credentials for Terraform
  • Getting Terraform examples
  • Basic VM configuration
  • Automated variables
  • Volumes
  • NFS Share
  • Deploy Terraform templates
  • Private VMs
  • Advanced variables
  • Further customization
  • Troubleshooting
• Upload and manage images
  • Upload an image
  • Update an image
• Instance types and flavors
  • Instance Types
  • Flavor Sizes
• Instance access and security
  • The _vm, _vsc and _nfs_vxlan networks
  • Floating IP addresses
  • Security Groups
  • SSH key pairs
• Create and manage volumes
  • Terraform
  • Create a volume manually
  • Attach a volume to an instance
  • Detach a volume from an instance
  • Create a snapshot from a volume
  • Edit a volume
  • Delete a volume
• Launch and manage instances
  • Launch an instance
  • Connect to an instance using SSH
  • Track usage for instances
  • Create an instance snapshot
  • Manage an instance
• Shared file systems using Manila
  • Terraform
  • Creating a Shared File System
  • Defining nfs access rules
• Instances with GPUs
  • Ubuntu
  • Alma Linux/CentOS/Red Hat 8.x
  • Debian 11
• Running Windows VMs
  • Deploy Windows VM with Terraform
  • Retrieve Windows admin password
• Creating your own Windows image
  • Preperation
  • Creating the image
  • Uploading the image
  • Using the image
• Appendix
  • VSC Tier-1 Cloud flavors list