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Preparing a cloud image

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Leopold Talirz edited this page May 20, 2020 · 11 revisions

General things to consider:

Start with a disk that is large enough (many cloud providers don't make it easy for users to increase disk size). QM 20.3.1 took 6.1GB on GCP; i.e. 15GB may be a reasonable disk size.
- Image pricing (for us to host it): 8.5c/GB/month (GCP)
- Disk pricing (for users): 4c/GB/month (GCP)

GCP

Create new SSH keypair. Edit the last bit of the public key to use user "ubuntu" (GCP uses this to decide for which user to add the public key)
Create new VM
- add public key
provision via ansible (note: it seems the IP does not change even if you stop the VM and start it again)
remove SSH key added by ansible (or perhaps change ansible so that it does not do that at all)