User Guide

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.

• Preface
  • Target Audience
  • Typographic Conventions
• Introduction
• Quick Start
  • Verifying the Prerequisities
  • Client Installation
  • Client Configuration
  • Testing the Installation
  • Conclusions
• Command Line Client
  • Overview
  • Installation
  • Client Configuration
  • Multi-cloud Configuration
• Web Interfaces
  • Marketplace
  • Storage
  • Registration
• Virtual Machine Lifecycle
  • Lifecycle Overview
  • Manage a VM
  • Virtual Machine Resources
• Storage Management
  • Create persistent disk
  • List persistent disks
  • Using Persistent Disks
  • Hot-plug Persistent Disks
  • Delete Persistent Disks
  • Read Only Volumes
  • Volatile Storage
• Image Management
  • Finding Available Images
  • Building New Images from Existing Images
  • Building Images from Scratch
  • Contextualization
  • Converting a VirtualBox Image
• Programmatic Access
  • REST Interfaces
  • Libcloud API
• Python and Python Utilities
  • Python
  • Pip
  • Virtualenv
• SSH Client
  • Linux Operating Systems
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows
• Java
  • Linux Operating Systems
  • Mac OS X
  • Windows
• Windows PowerShell