34.2. Specifying fabric details

In Fabric Explorer, right-click Fabrics to open the context menu, and then select Create Fabric in the cloud.

On the Create Fabric in the cloud wizard's Choose the Cloud page, select the cloud from the list, and then click Next to open the wizard's Fabric Details page.

You may have to wait a few seconds while the tooling retrieves the location, hardware, and image IDs from your cloud provider to populate the wizard's corresponding fields.

In Fabric Name, accept the default name, or enter a different name for the new fabric.

In Container name, accept the default name, or enter a different name for the new container that will host the fabric registry.

In Group, accept the default name, or enter a different name for the group in which to start up the new fabric registry container.

In User, accept the default user name, or enter a different user name to use for logging into the new fabric registry container.

In Password, enter the password required for User to log into the specified fabric.

In Zookeeper Password, accept the default, generated password for logging into the cloud fabric's zookeeper registry, or enter a different password.

In Location ID, select from the drop-down list the ID of the region in which the machines you want to use are located.

In Hardware ID, select from the drop-down list the ID of the hardware archetype you want to use.

Hardware archetypes specify the amount of memory and compute power available for running applications on machine images.

In OS Family, select from the drop-down list the family name of the operating system you want to use.

If you select an OS Family, do not also select an Image ID.

In OS Version, optionally select from the drop-down list the version for the operating system you selected.

If you selected an OS Family, skip this step. Otherwise, in Image ID, select from the drop-down list the ID of the image template to use for the software configuration.

In Maven proxy URI, accept the default URI, or enter the URI to the Maven proxy repository you want to use.

Click Finish.

The tooling creates the container, then provisions it with all of the bundles, features, and profiles required to create a fabric registry. This process can take up to ten minutes. When it's done, the container specified in Step 4 appears in Fabric Explorer as a node under Fabrics.