[Fiware-lab-help] FIWARE Lab questions

[Sándor Laki]

Dear José,

My answers to your questions:
1. This is not a normal behaviour. Could you please send me which region 
you use? We can move forward only after that.
2. The images used in FIWARE can be accessed via ssh with your private 
key assigned to the vm. However, after that you have root access within 
the vm, so you can configure username, password authentication as well.
3. I assume that in the base images it is not the case. They only 
provide a base system where you can freely decide what to install. 
However, to deploy the necessary software stack the blueprint templates 
can be used. To do so, first  you have to create a blueprint template by 
choosing the region, base os, and the softwares to be installed. After 
that you can deploy it, resulting in a new instance with all the 
required softwares. Note that this instantiation generally takes much 
more time than a simple image deployment.
4. See 3.
5. If apache, php and mysql are also installed, I expect that the answer 
is yes. If not, you can install it manually within the vm, using 
aptitude or apt-get in ubuntu.
6. Free space is assigned to each vm, but it is not shown in the portal. 
However, if the space is not enough, you can create additional volumes 
in the portal, an assign them to the vm instance. After that a new disk 
appears in the vm (e.g. /dev/vdb), that can be formatted and then 
mounted similarly to a real physical disk.

I also advise you to check the videos on instances and blueprints at 
http://help.lab.fiware.org/
And the edu pages on Cloud hosting: 
http://edu.fi-ware.org/course/category.php?id=4
Blueprint templetes are introduced at 
http://edu.fi-ware.org/course/view.php?id=48

I hope this helps you.
Best regards,
Sandor

2015.02.02. 19:39 keltezéssel, Debastiani Andreis,Jose Henrique írta:
>
> Hi,
>
>
> My name is José Andreis and I am part of a team that is applying for a 
> call to develop agriculture related applications using the FIWARE 
> platform. We have faced some small problems while trying to configure 
> a cloud server in the FIWARE platform and I would like to know if you 
> could help us with the following questions:
>
>
> 1 - In the Cloud section of FIWARE Lab. I was able to create a 
> keypair, start an instance (Ubuntu server v14), add security group 
> rules to TCP port 22 and allocating a floating IP. But I was never 
> able to associate this IP to the instance so I could connect to the 
> server via ssh using the PEM file generated. I tried creating the 
> instance in several different regions and the problem happened with 
> all.  The error below is presented:
> {"badRequest": {"message": "Error. Unable to associate floating ip", 
> "code": 400}}
> 2 - I believe that if I am able to associate the IP to the instance 
> (issue above). I will be able to connect to the server via SSH with no 
> more problems. My second question is if I will be able to access the 
> server files using an FTP/SSH client like CyberDuck or FileZilla to 
> upload or edit files/scripts in the server? Generally I would need an 
> username and password for these clients, so I wonder if there’s a 
> place in the FIWARE lab were we can create these credentials?
> 3 -  Is php already installed in the Ubuntu server v14 instance?
> 4 - With the ubuntu instance. Will we be able to create a blueprint 
> template for Mysql?
> 5 - Is there an option for phpmyadmin interface for database (MySql) 
> administration? If not, what is the interface for the database 
> administration?
>
> 6 - I assume that it will not be a problem. But just to clarify. Will 
> the CRONTAB program be accessible via terminal for the ubuntu template?
> 7 - When creating an instance. I noticed that we never have Disk space 
> available (NaN GB available). Is there an option where we can allocate 
> disk space for our account?
>
>
>
> Thank you very much for your attention.
>
> ​
>
> José
>
> ​
>
>
>
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