Chapter 7. Creating a Cloud Service
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Abstract
Before you can use the management console to work with cloud instances, you must install the interface for accessing your cloud service and supply your credentials for accessing the service. The management console allows you to add one account for each of the supported cloud services.
Before the Cloud tab can work with a cloud service, it needs you to:
Once you have added the credentials for you account two things happen:
- you will be able to see and manage of the instances running in the cloud service
- you will be able to select the cloud service as an option when creating cloud-based containers
7.1. Installing a Cloud Service Interface
Overview
The management console only comes set up with the basic features required to support interacting with cloud services. To work with a specific cloud service, you will need to install the required features into the management console container(s).
Adding cloud services to the management console container(s) is done by adding the features to one of the profiles that specify what is deployed into the container. The easiest way to do this is to modify the
fmc profile. The fmc profile is the profile the specifies the management console specific features into a Fuse Container. Alternatively, you could create a new profile that loads the cloud service interfaces and apply it to the management console container(s).
Adding a cloud service interface to the fmc profile
To add a cloud service interface:
- Select the Profiles tab.
- Select the desired profile version from the Versions list.
- Select the
fmcprofile from the Profiles list.Thefmcprofile's detail page opens. - Select the Features tab.The profile's feature details panel appears. For details about the Features tab see Section 19.6, “Editing a Profile's Features”.
- Scroll down until the Available Features section of the panel is in view.
- Select
mvn:org.jclouds.karaf/jclouds_karaf/1.5.3_1/xml/featuresfrom the Repositories list. - Click the + to the right of the cloud service interfaces you wish to work with.The + will disappear and the feature is added to the Installed Features list. The features are immediately installed into all the management console containers in the fabric.
Related topics
| Part III, “Working with Configuration Profiles” |
