The following are recommendations, rather than fixed requirements. However, our experience in developing this documentation indicated the following suggestions.

Front End

Use the following table for a system that will run one or more of:

• the cloud controller (clc)
• the cluster controller (cc)
• walrus (the S3-like storage service)
• the storage controller (sc)

Node(s)

The other system(s) are nodes, which will run:

• the node controller (nc)

These systems will actually run the instances. You will need one or more systems with:

After installing and booting the Cloud Controller, users of the cloud will need to retrieve their credentials. This can be done either through a web browser, or at the command line.

From a Web Browser

1. From your web browser (either remotely or on your Ubuntu server) access the following URL:

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

   Important! You must use a secure connection, so make sure you use "https" not "http" in your URL. You will get a security certificate warning. You will have to add an exception to view the page. If you do not accept it you will not be able to view the Eucalyptus configuration page.

2. Use username 'admin' and password 'admin' for the first time login (you will be prompted to change your password).
3. Then follow the on-screen instructions to update the admin password and email address.

4. Once the first time configuration process is completed, click the 'credentials' tab located in the top-left portion of the screen.
   

5. Click the 'Download Credentials' button to get your certificates

6. Save them to ~/.euca

7. Unzip the downloaded zipfile into a safe location (~/.euca)

   unzip -d ~/.euca mycreds.zip

From a Command Line

1. Alternatively, if you are on the command line of the Cloud Controller, you can run:

   mkdir -p ~/.euca
   chmod 700 ~/.euca
   cd ~/.euca
   sudo euca_conf --get-credentials mycreds.zip
   unzip mycreds.zip
   ln -s ~/.euca/eucarc ~/.eucarc
   cd -

Extracting and Using Your Credentials

Now you will need to setup EC2 API and AMI tools on your server using X.509 certificates.

1. Install the required cloud user tools:

   sudo apt-get install euca2ools

2. To validate that everything is working correctly, get the local cluster availability details:

   . ~/.euca/eucarc
   euca-describe-availability-zones verbose
   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

The following is by far the simplest way to install an image. However, advanced users may be interested in learning how to Bundle their own image.

The simplest way to add an image to UEC is to install it from the Image Store on the UEC web interface.

1. Access the web interface at the following URL (Make sure you specify https):

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

2. Enter your login and password (if requested, as you may still be logged in from earlier)
3. Click on the Store tab

   

4. Browse available images
5. Click on install for the image you want

Once the image has been downloaded and installed, you can click on "How to run?" that will be displayed below the image button to view the command to execute to instantiate (start) this image. The image will also appear on the list given on the Image tab.

There are multiple ways to instantiate an image in UEC:

• Use the command line
• Use one of the UEC compatible management tools such as Landscape

• Use the ElasticFox extension to Firefox

Here we will describe the process from the command line:

1. Before running an instance of your image, you should first create a keypair (ssh key) that you can use to log into your instance as root, once it boots. The key is stored, so you will only have to do this once. Run the following command:

   if [ ! -e ~/.euca/mykey.priv ]; then
       mkdir -p -m 700 ~/.euca
       touch ~/.euca/mykey.priv
       chmod 0600 ~/.euca/mykey.priv
       euca-add-keypair mykey > ~/.euca/mykey.priv
   fi

   Note: You can call your key whatever you like (in this example, the key is called 'mykey'), but remember what it is called. If you forget, you can always run euca-describe-keypairs to get a list of created keys stored in the system.

2. You must make sure to source ~/.euca/eucarc before you run any of the eucatools. It is probably best to add this to the bottom of your .bashrc script.
3. You must also allow access to port 22 in your instances:

   euca-authorize default -P tcp -p 22 -s 0.0.0.0/0

4. Next, you can create instances of your registered image:

   euca-run-instances $EMI -k mykey -t m1.small

   Note: If you receive an error regarding image_id, you may find it by viewing Images page or click "How to Run" on the Store page to see the sample command.

5. The first time you run an instance, the system will be setting up caches for the image from which it will be created. This can often take some time the first time an instance is run given that VM images are usually quite large. To monitor the state of your instance, run:

   watch -n5 euca-describe-instances

   In the output, you should see information about the instance, including its state. While first-time caching is being performed, the instance's state will be 'pending'.
6. When the instance is fully started, the above state will become 'running'. Look at the IP address assigned to your instance in the output, then connect to it:

   IPADDR=$(euca-describe-instances | grep $EMI | grep running | tail -n1 | awk '{print $4}')
   ssh -i ~/.euca/mykey.priv ubuntu@$IPADDR

7. And when you are done with this instance, exit your SSH connection, then terminate your instance:

   INSTANCEID=$(euca-describe-instances | grep $EMI | grep running | tail -n1 | awk '{print $2}')
   euca-terminate-instances $INSTANCEID

How to use the Storage Controller

Controlling eucalyptus services:

• sudo service eucalyptus [start|stop|restart] (on the CLC/CC/SC/Walrus side)
• sudo service eucalyptus-nc [start|stop|restart] (on the Node side)

Locations of some important files:

• Log files:

  • /var/log/eucalyptus

• Configuration files:

  • /etc/eucalyptus

• Database:

  • /var/lib/eucalyptus/db

• Keys

  • /var/lib/eucalyptus

  • /var/lib/eucalyptus/.ssh

Notes:

• Don't forget to source your ~/.euca/eucarc before running the client tools.

Links:

• Eucalyptus Project Site (forums, documentation, downloads)

• Eucalyptus on Launchpad (bugs, code)

• Eucalyptus Troubleshooting (1.5)

• Register your cloud with RightScale

The Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud documentation uses terminology that might be unfamiliar to some readers. This page is intended to provide a glossary of such terms and acronyms.

• Cloud - A federated set of physical machines that offer computing resources through virtual machines, provisioned and recollected dynamically.

• Cloud Controller (CLC) - Eucalyptus component that provides the web UI (an https server on port 8443), and implements the Amazon EC2 API. There should be only one Cloud Controller in an installation of UEC. This service is provided by the Ubuntu eucalyptus-cloud package.

• Cluster - A collection of nodes, associated with a Cluster Controller. There can be more than one Cluster in an installation of UEC. Clusters are sometimes physically separate sets of nodes. (e.g. floor1, floor2, floor2).

• Cluster Controller (CC) - Eucalyptus component that manages collections of node resources. This service is provided by the Ubuntu eucalyptus-cc package.

• EBS - Elastic Block Storage. http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/

• EC2 - Elastic Compute Cloud. Amazon's pay-by-the-hour, pay-by-the-gigabyte public cloud computing offering.

• EKI - Eucalyptus Kernel Image.

• EMI - Eucalyptus Machine Image.

• ERI - Eucalyptus Ramdisk Image.

• Eucalyptus - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems. An open source project originally from the University of California at Santa Barbara, now supported by Eucalyptus Systems, a Canonical Partner.

• Front-end - Physical machine hosting one (or more) of the high level Eucalyptus components (cloud, walrus, storage controller, cluster controller).

• Node - A node is a physical machine that's capable of running virtual machines, running a node controller. Within Ubuntu, this generally means that the CPU has VT extensions, and can run the KVM hypervisor.

• Node Controller (NC) - Eucalyptus component that runs on nodes which host the virtual machines that comprise the cloud. This service is provided by the Ubuntu package eucalyptus-nc.

• S3 - Simple Storage Service. Amazon's pay-by-the-gigabyte persistent storage solution for EC2. http://aws.amazon.com/s3/

• Storage Controller (SC) - Eucalyptus component that manages dynamic block storage services (EBS). Each 'cluster' in a Eucalyptus installation can have its own Storage Controller. This component is provided by the 'eucalyptus-sc' package.

• UEC - Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud. Ubuntu's cloud computing solution, based on Eucalyptus.

• VM - Virtual Machine.

• VT - Virtualization Technology. An optional feature of some modern CPUs, allowing for accelerated virtual machine hosting.

• Walrus - Eucalyptus component that implements the Amazon S3 API, used for storing VM images and user storage using S3 bucket put/get abstractions.