GenomeCloud

Starting up an instance

To use the CBSE cloud, go to:

• Goto [https://genome-cloud.soe.ucsc.edu]
• Use your SOE username to login (unless otherwise specified when the account was created).
• Instances - Launch Instance
• Create a new VM, prefix it with your username to ensure people can contact you.
• Instance Boot source = Image, Select an image for your preferred OS
• Access & Security: Click the "+" button and upload your SSH public key from ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
  • The page displays notes on how to use ssh-keygen -t rsa -f cloud.key generate your key-pair
  • Then you can get that public key and copy it using $cat cloud.key.pub .... ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABA......
• Click "Import Key Pair" (previously check "Allow SSH)"

• Networking: Drag the CBSE network onto "Selected Networks" (either network is fine)
• Click "Launch"
• Wait for a while until you see it in the list of instances, then click "More" - "Associate Floating IP", select an IP, "OK"

• From your terminal, the one where you copied the SSH key from, do "ssh USER@IPADDRESS"
  • General Example: ssh -i cloud.key ubuntu@<instance_ip> Specific: ssh -i cloud.key ubuntu@128.114.61.171
• USER is ubuntu for ubuntu and centos for centos images, otherwise do "View Log" on the instance and look for a username in there.

Mounting a Volume

• If you need more space than an instance will provide, you will need to create a Volume and mount the partition on your server instance.