e-INFRA CZ Cloud Ostrava¶

Ostrava cloud consists of 22 nodes from the Karolina supercomputer. The cloud site is built on top of OpenStack, which is a free open standard cloud computing platform.

Access¶

To acces the cloud you must:

have an e-Infra CZ account,
be a member of an active project.

The dashboard is available at https://ostrava.openstack.cloud.e-infra.cz/.

You can specify resources/quotas for your project. For more information, see the Quota Limits section.

Creating First Instance¶

To create your first VM instance, follow the e-INFRA CZ guide. Note that the guide is similar for clouds in Brno and Ostrava, so make sure that you follow steps for Ostrava cloud where applicable.

Process Automatization¶

You can automate the process using Terraform or Openstack.

Terraform¶

Prerequisites:

Linux/Mac/WSL terminal BASH shell
installed Terraform and sshuttle
downloaded application credentials from OpenStack Horizon dashboard and saved as a project_openrc.sh.inc text file

Follow the guide: https://code.it4i.cz/terraform

OpenStack¶

Prerequisites:

Linux/Mac/WSL terminal BASH shell
installed OpenStack client

Follow the guide: https://code.it4i.cz/commandline

Run commands:

source project_openrc.sh.inc

./cmdline-demo.sh basic-infrastructure-1

Technical Reference¶

For the list of deployed OpenStack services, see the list of components.

More information can be found on the e-INFRA CZ website.