This guide will help you with the basic information on JustCloudify dashboard usage and to get acquainted with the possibilities it provides.
Here is a list of main sections:
- Creating and Managing Environments
- Function Icons for Environments
- Function Icons for Each Instance
- Import
- Marketplace
- Deployment Manager
- Tasks Panel
- Account Settings
- Upgrade Trial Account & Balance
- Additional Options: Search Box, Help, Email Address
Creating and Managing Environments
1. Click NEW ENVIRONMENT in the upper left corner of the dashboard.
2. The Environment topology dialogue box will be opened, where you can fully customize your environment settings.
After finishing configurations, type name for your environment and click the Create button.
3. All of your environments will be listed in the upper pane of the admin panel, along with the following information within columns:
2. The status column shows the permanent state of your environment (Running, Sleeping, Stopped) or some temporary interim process it is currently undergoing (Creating, Launching, Stopping, Cloning, Exporting, Installing, Migrating, Deleting).
3. Tags column indicates the name of the owner who created the environment.
4. Usage column shows the number of cloudlets and percentage of available disk space that environment currently consumes. You can also find the Billing history button
here, which leads to a separate tab with statistics on your spends (both overall and for every node separately), divided according to the specified time period.
The main icons are as follows :
1. Open in browser
2. Settings
3. Clone environment
4. Change environment topology
5.Delete environment
1. Click the Open in browser icon
to open the environment in a new browser tab.
Note that this option could be absent in case your environment consists of Docker-based containers or just does not include an application server (i.e. no web interface is handled inside).
2 Click on Settings to
open a separate tab with a number of configuration sections. There are ten options here: Custom domains, Custom SSL, SSH Access, Monitoring, Endpoints, Migration, collaboration, Change Owner, Export and Info.
- Select Custom domains to access the following suboptions: Domain binding, and Swap domains
- Choose the Custom SSL option and upload the necessary files in order to apply your custom SSL Certificate.
- Select Monitoring in order to start tracking the number of resources your environment consumes.
Use Load Alerts for setting new triggers (or adjusting the default ones) to receive special email notifications in case the specified resource’s usage exceeds the stated limits.
Within the Auto, Horizontal Scaling suboption you can configure triggers for changing the amount of your web/application nodes depending on CPU, Memory, Network, Disk I/O or Disk IOPS consumption.
The Events History section contains records about all the events that occurred due to the configurations, set using the two abovementioned sections.
- Within the Endpoints section, you can manage to map of your containers’ TCP/UDP ports for ensuring their collaboration with external resources via direct connection
- Select collaboration to see the list of accounts which have access to the current environment.
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If you need to share the environment with another account, click Add and fill in the Email field. You can also tick Change Topology / SSH Access if you would like to give such permissions to a user. Click Save.
Click Change Owner in order to transfer environment to another user account within the confines of a single platform.
- Select Export in order to pack all your environment’s settings and data into a single downloadable file, that can be subsequently restored at another hosting provider’s platform for the creation of the identical and ready-to-use environment.
Note that this feature is not currently available for Windows and Docker-based containers.
Switch to the Info section to see additional information on environment domain (except environments without application server), its creator/owner (as they can differ due to the account collaboration feature), hardware region it belongs to and the date/time of creation.
4. To Clone the environment, click on the appropriate button
. In the opened frame, specify the name for the new environment and click Clone.
5. In order to Change the environment topology, select the needed option.
Perform the required changes in the appeared Environment topology dialogue box and click Apply to submit them.
6. To Delete an environment, click on the red cross icon and
confirm that you really want to do this by entering your password.
Function Icons for Each Instance
Over a particular instance or container to see the pop-up icons with different functions.
Use these icons to perform the following actions:
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Click the Open in browser option to open the application server, database, balancer, VPS node, Docker container or application context in a new browser tab.
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In order to Restart node, select the same-named option and confirm your decision. In just the same way this can be done for a set of the same-type nodes.
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Select the Config option to open the Configuration Manager tab, where you can change the node’s settings by means of uploading and modifying files.
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Select the Log option to view the log files for a separate node or for the set of the same-type ones. Log files list can differ depending on the selected instance.
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Select the Statistics option to track the data on CPU, RAM, Network I/O and Disk space consumption for a separate node or a set of nodes in a real time.
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Some nodes can also have optional buttons, such as Add-ons (for installing available pluggable modules) and Add project (for deploying apps via GIT/SVN).
When hovering over a separate node, you’ll see one more Set-Alias
icon. It allows you to set an alternative name for your node instead of the default Node ID label (e.g. to define master and slave servers in a DB cluster). The same thing can be done with the environment name, wherein its domain name will remain the same.
Import
Next, to the New environment option, you can find the Import button. It allows to upload .json, .jpsor .cs file in order to create new environment (or modify the already existing one with an add-on) according to the settings, declared in it.
Within the opened Import frame, you’ll see three tabs:
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Local File - select the locally stored file (via the Browse button), that should be uploaded and executed on a Platform
- URL - type in or paste a direct link to the required manifest file
- JSON - the inbuilt JSON editor can be used to insert and edit your code before the deployment, or even to declare your package from the scratch manually
Marketplace