accp_tutorial

Step

1. Go to https://allianceaccp.cloudmc.ca/
2. Login with CILogon
3. You will be presented with this header:

Create an AWS environment

1. Click on "Services"

2. Click on "Amazon Web Services"

3. Click on "+ Add Environment"

4. Choose a name significant for you and click Next

5. Wait while the environment is created

6. Skip the management of members for now, you can always come back to it later.

7. The environment is now created, we can move to next step.

Create a Cloud Connect environment

1. In the header, click on Services

2. Click on "Cloud Connect"

3. Click on "+ Add Environment"

4. Choose a name significant for you and click Next

5. Wait while the environment is created

6. Skip the management of members for now, you can always come back to it later.

7. The environment is now created, we can move to next step.

Create a deployment

1. In the header, click on Services

2. Click on "Cloud Connect"

3. Click on the environment you created in the previous section

4. Click on "Add Deployment"

5. Choose a name for the deployment and make sure the environment selected matched the one created in section "AWS environment"

6. Choose "us-east1" as the region.

7. Click on "Submit".

8. The deployment should now be displayed in the list

9. Contact ACCP to request a quota bump to deploy Magic Castle in that cloud deployment.

Create a Magic Castle deployment

1. In the header, click on Services

2. Click on "Cloud Connect"

3. Click on the environment you created

4. In the top navigation bar, click on "Magic Castle"

5. Click on the "Deploy Magic Castle" button

6. Pick the Cloud Deployment you created in the previous section:

7. Pick a name for your cluster or leave the randomly generated one as is

8. Under the "Management and Login Type" list, pick "4 vCPU, 16GiB RAM (m6a.xlarge)" || |-----|

9. Under the "Compute Node Instance Type" list, pick "8 vCPU, 32GiB RAM (m6a.2xlarge)" (CPU only) or "4 vCPU, 16GiB RAM (g5.xlarge)" (GPU)

10. Enter the number of compute node you want between 1 and 10

11. In the Volumes section:

    1. Click on Add
    2. Set "home" as the name
    3. Set "25" as the size

12. Click on the Add button next to "SSH Keys" and paste your SSH public key

13. Click on "Submit"

14. You will be redirected to the Magic Castle deployment section. Wait for "state" to change from "Provisioning" to "Installing" and finally to "Active"

15. Click on the cluster name

16. In the attributes section, you will find the address that you can use to connect to your cluster.

17. Connect to the cluster with SSH like this: centos@<url_from_attribute>