5) Confirguration of the openQRM Cloud
Before sending request we define the Cloud configuration via the Cloud Config panel.
Go to "Cloud" -> Cloud-Config
Here you can set various parameters for the Cloud configuration :
cloud_admin_email
-> your email-address. All Cloud-Admin mails will be send there.
auto_provision
-> if the Cloud should automatically provision the requests without review and approval of the administrator. (by default "false")
external_portal_url
-> this is the external portal address which the users will see e.g.in their mailings.
request_physical_systems
-> if the Cloud should provide physical system for the requests or only virtual (by default "true"). If set to false the resource-type select-box in the users requests form will not show the physical systems type.
default_clone_on_deploy
-> if server-images should be automatically cloned-on-deploy (by default "true") If set to false the users will have a "clone-on-deploy" checkbox in their request form.
max_resources_per_cr
-> sets how many resources can be requested via a single request (by defaul set to 5)
auto_create_vms
-> if openQRM should automatically create new vms for requests (by default set to "true")
Now please update your email in the cloud_admin_email and set request_physical_systems to false since we only want to provide virtual machines with our Cloud in this howto. Of course you can re-enable this later and also offer physical machines automatically deployed by openQRM to your Cloud users.
If you are using additional external interfaces in the vms for the Cloud openQRM automates the network configuration for those virtual network cards. For this mechanism we need to create a Cloud-IpGroup and fill it with some ip-addresses. Those addresses then will be automatically assigned to the appliances requested by the users.
Please create an new Cloud-Ipgroup
and fill it with a block of ip-addresses.
Re-check your CloudIpgroup by clicking on "list" in the overview. It should look similar to this screenshot :
We are almost ready :)
Users are now able to browse the external cloud portal (in this example at http://192.168.99.1/cloud-portal).
Please register a new user via the registration tab.
After registering users will get a mail with a crypted-token
which enables them to activate their account.
After activation the user again gets a mail from the openQRM Cloud with the login details :
btw: all those steps can also be done from "inside" the Cloud within the openQRM-sever GUI. It also has an interface to register users and post requests.
We will continue on the next page with the billing mechanism of the openQRM Cloud.
