Preface¶
Target Audience¶
This guide provides information of interest to researchers, scientists, and engineers looking to use an existing StratusLab cloud infrastructure. It also provides information for application developers looking to port their software to a StratusLab cloud environment.
System administrators wanting to install a StratusLab cloud on their own resources should start with the StratusLab Administrator’s Guide, although they will also want to use the information in this guide to test their cloud after installation.
Those wishing to contribute to the StratusLab software or documentation should consult the StratusLab Contributor’s Guide.
Typographic Conventions¶
This guide uses several typographic conventions to improve the readability.
| links | some link |
| filenames | $HOME/.stratuslab/stratuslab-user.cfg |
| commands | stratus-run-instance |
| options | --version |
Table: Typographic Conventions
Extended examples of commands and their outputs are displayed in the monospace Courier font. Within these sections, command lines are prefixed with a ‘$ ‘ prompt. Lines without this prompt are output from the previous command. For example,
$ stratus-run-instance -q BN1EEkPiBx87_uLj2-sdybSI-Xb
5507, 134.158.75.75
the stratus-run-instance is the command line which returns the
virtual machine identifier and IP address.