Launching an instance¶

To launch a new compute instance in Binero cloud, you have four main options as outlined in the links below. Each option have its pros and cons:

• The cloud management portal is very easy to use and will get a user with limited prior knowledge from A to B quickly. The tradeoff is that advanced features are not always available.

• OpenStack Horizon is the web interface included in OpenStack. Some advanced features might only have a GUI implementation here.

• OpenStack terminal client is a command line implementation giving terminal oriented users a (very) quick way to access the cloud. The learning curve is steeper than the GUI implementation but the workflow will be very efficient.

• The API is the full OpenStack REST API. Its intended for users that are either writing infrastructure as code or using a third party application (for instance Terraform) that needs to reach the cloud provisioning layer directly.