cPouta
- Summary
- cPouta is a virtualisation platform built on OpenStack. The platform allows virtual machines, storage and network to be created and connected to the Internet.
- Internet
- https://pouta.csc.fi
Description
The cPouta service is a virtualisation platform that allows users to create virtual machines, storage and networks. These can be then bundled as a service and connect to the public Internet.
Tutorial
Tutorials are available here: Create a virtual machine in cPouta over the web and Create a virtual machine in cPouta from the CLI.
The environment can be configured via the web interface or the command line with a command called openstack1. The OpenStack graphical web dashboard is called Horizon2 and it is also used in the Allas and Pukki services.
cPouta has a project based quota and some of it's max values are described below.
| Instances | VCPUs | RAM | Volumes | Storage | Public IPs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 8 | 32 GB | 10 | 1000 GB | 2 |
Virtual machines are created using flavours3 rather than fully customised values. Flavours launched are deducted from the quota and the user cannot exceed the quota.
Info
For example, the user can create eight standard.tiny or two standard.large or one standard.xlarge and two standard.tiny machines in one project. But not three standard.medium machines, because the number of VCPUs would be too high.
Storage volumes are treated in the same way e.g. a maximum of ten volumes of 100 GB each can be created. Or one of 1000 GB.
Tip
For larger storage capacity, please see Allas service.
In addition to quota, there is another reason why network settings are worth mentioning: By default, the cPouta environment is isolated, meaning that there is no access to or from the Internet without proper configuration by the user.
In short, cPouta requires you to create a virtual machine from a flavour3 and connect it to the network.
For more detailed information, see the cPouta tutorials or the official end user's documentation4.