My Article to FOSSUser - "Ubuntu on Cloud" Part 10

The following figure 13 shows the GUI credentials page for your reference.

                             Figure 13

After saving your credentials, you have to use it. In order to use will need to setup EC2 API and AMI tools on your server using X.509 certificates.

            To install the required cloud user tools, type,

sudo apt-get install euca2ools

Afterwards, Check the availability of your local cluster details.
Type,

. ~/.euca/eucarc

euca-describe-availability-zones verbose

The result you get (Assume that everything is fine) is,

AVAILABILITYZONE            myowncloud                 192.168.1.1

AVAILABILITYZONE   |- vm types                free / max   cpu   ram disk

AVAILABILITYZONE   |- m1.small                0004 / 0004   1    192     2

AVAILABILITYZONE   |- c1.medium               0004 / 0004   1    256     5

AVAILABILITYZONE   |- m1.large                0002 / 0002   2    512    10

AVAILABILITYZONE   |- m1.xlarge               0002 / 0002   2   1024    20

AVAILABILITYZONE   |- c1.xlarge               0001 / 0001   4   2048    20

Now, Install an image from the store. 

The simplest way to install an image is using web UI.

Access the following URL from the browser to install an image.



https://<cloud-controller-ip-address>:8443/ **

** - Use “https” secured connection, not “http”. If you use “http”, then browser will give you a security warning. 

You will have to add an exception to view the page.

< cloud-controller-ip-address > is the IP that you used to configure your Cloud Controller registration.



You have to login into the UEC. Now, go to the Store tab. The following screenshot (figure 14) will show you what you got in it.  

                                                 Figure 14
 

You can browse all the images and download and install the image as you want.

Finally you have to instantiate an image that you installed. There are multiple ways of doing it. Use the command line. Maybe that will be slightly a bad idea, because you got cool UEC compatible management tools such as Landscape (figure 7) and etc.

Also you can use ElasticFox extension – A Firefox extension, One of the cool tools available.

Final steps, Try it yourself!!!!

The article is written by myself is a collective effort myself, knowledge from many books, articles and sites, I have given reference to all of them. I honor and thank all of them to their great support.

Reference List 

1.    A Quick Start Guide to Cloud Computing by Dr Mark I Williams, Pages 6-18

2.    Cloud Application Architectures by George Reese, Pages 1-29

3.    Ubuntu Server Guide by Canonical Ltd. and members of the Ubuntu Documentation Project, Pages 4-28

4.     Cloud Computing Virtualization Specialist Complete Certification Kit: by The Art of Service, Pages 9-58

5.    Programming Amazon EC2 by Juan van Vliet and Flavia Paganelli, Pages 4-21

6.     Eucalyptus Beginner's Guide - UEC Edition (Ubuntu Server 10.10 - Maverick Meerkat) by Johnson D, Kiran Murari, Murthy Raju, Suseendran RB,  and Yogesh Girikumar, Pages 2-19

7.    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/CDInstall

8.    https://ubuntu.com/cloud