OpenStack is now available on Hotel for all FutureGrid users. You can access the OpenStack cloud on Hotel by using your FutureGrid username and password to log into the web interface. You will find various virtual machine images based on CentOS, Fedora, Scientific Linux, and Ubuntu. For more information follow the documentation on the FutureGrid portal.
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| Images available for OpenStack Havana on Hotel |
We also provide an EC2-compatible API over HTTPS. Credentials for this API can be retrieved in the "Access & Security" section, under the "API Access" tab. Additionally, Nimbus Phantom also supports deploying instances on this cloud (look at our documentation to learn more about Phantom).
We have configured this cloud to behave similarly to the existing Nimbus cloud on Hotel, in order to provide a better user experience. As such, OpenStack instances get public IP addresses by default. Additionally, instances hostnames are configured to match the DNS name associated with the public IP address. For example, an instance which is assigned a public IP address of 149.165.149.2 gets configured with an internal hostname of vm-149-2.uc.futuregrid.org. Both can be used to connect to the instance via SSH from your workstation.
Any question or bug report about the new OpenStack cloud on Hotel should be sent to the FutureGrid help system.
