Managing infrastructures

Instance Arrays are collections of identical servers used as a single entity.

Creating an infrastructure using the UI

1. In the infrastructure designer, click on your infrastructure on the left and click Create

   

2. Add the name, label and select your site. Optionally, add a description and click Create Infrastructure.

   

Changing an infrastructure’s properties using the UI

1. Access the infrastructure’s properties using the Settings tab:

From here, you can change the name and label.

This will have an effect on all long form DNS records such as instance array names in the form: instance-58417.instance-array-37139.vanilla.my-infrastructure.8186.metalsoft.io

Listing infrastructures using the CLI

Check if your infrastructure has been created:

./metalcloud-cli infrastructure list
┌────┬─────────┬──────────────┬─────────┬───────┬──────┬─────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬───────────────┬───────────┐
│  # │ LABEL   │ CONFIG LABEL │ STATUS  │ OWNER │ SITE │ CREATED             │ UPDATED             │ DEPLOY STATUS │ DEPLOY ID │
├────┼─────────┼──────────────┼─────────┼───────┼──────┼─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────┼───────────┤
│ 22 │ infra1  │ infra1       │ active  │    11 │    1 │ 11 Jun 25 08:42 BST │ 15 Jul 25 08:21 BST │ finished      │           │
│ 35 │ infra02 │ infra02      │ ordered │    11 │    1 │ 15 Jul 25 08:48 BST │ 15 Jul 25 08:48 BST │ not_started   │           │
│ 36 │ bob01   │ bob01        │ ordered │    11 │    1 │ 15 Jul 25 10:57 BST │ 15 Jul 25 10:57 BST │ not_started   │           │
└────┴─────────┴──────────────┴─────────┴───────┴──────┴─────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴───────────────┴───────────┘

Creating an infrastructure using the CLI

This tutorial uses the CLI. Visit using the CLI for more details.

Required fields are Site and Label. The Site ID can be found using

metalcloud-cli site list
┌───┬───────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────┬────────┬─────────────┐
│ # │ LABEL             │ NAME        │ ADDRESS │ HIDDEN │ MAINTENANCE │
├───┼───────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────┼────────┼─────────────┤
│ 1 │ us02-chi-qts01-dc │ US02 QTS DC │         │ false  │ false       │
└───┴───────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────┴────────┴─────────────┘

To create an infrastructure, invoke the following

metalcloud-cli infrastructure create 1 testinfra1

Deleting an infrastructure using the CLI

To delete an infrastructure, you can use the ID of the infrastructure which you can retrieve from infrastructure list. In this example, we will delete Infrastructure ID 36

$ metalcloud-cli infrastructure delete 36

Where to go from here:

1. Creating an InstanceArray