Launching an instance

This guide provides a step-by-step guide to get started and launch your first instance on Binero cloud. The available methods to launch an instance are:

For users starting out, we recommend using our cloud management portal as this provides an better experience to get to know the cloud platform and will take you from 0-100 in the shortest time possible with little prior understanding of working with public clouds.

More information on using the other methods are available under the sections for each service in this documentation.

Note

More information on how to access the portals is available here.

General first steps

When starting out in the platform there are some tasks that you normally only need to perform once.

While there are many ways for you to perform these one time tasks, we will use the cloud management portal in the following examples.

The two main ways to connect your infrastructure (and in this case, your first instance) to the internet:

We will cover the second option (router + floating IP) in this quick start guide as it will provide a more versatile option when growing your infrastructure and add an extra layer of security.

Note

Some features of the platform, for example load balancing, will require a router.

From a security perspective its also preferable to use floating IP addresses as your instances will be less exposed to the internet than with a directly attached IP.

Finally, when using a router with many instances, doing backend connections (for example from a web server to a database) can (and should) on the local network rather than on the public IP addresses.

For this reason, we recommend using a router in all use cases except when using only a single instance with a strong local firewall in place.

We recommend the following tasks to complete before launching your first instance:

  • Add your SSH-key to the platform (if provisioning Linux-based instances).

  • Create a network.

  • Add a subnet to your network.

  • Create a router.

  • Connect the router to the subnet by adding a router interface.

Add an SSH-key

Please see this section for information on how to add an SSH key.

Create a network

To create a network:

  • Press the + (plus) icon in the lower right corner.

  • Press Networking and then Network in the sidebar menu.

  • Name the network and optionally add a description.

  • europe-se-1 is pre-selected as region.

  • Under Availability zone, select a zone, we recommend europe-se-1a

  • Press Create

Add a subnet

To add a subnet to the network you created above.

  • Press Networking and then Network in the sidebar menu. Select the network you created in the previous step.

  • In the top right corner, select Create subnet icon.

  • Name the subnet.

  • Type a network address in CIDR notation. This is the network your servers will run on. It needs to be in one of the RFC1918 ranges (10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16). If you are unsure what range to use we suggest 192.168.0.0/24.

  • Under Gateway IP, select Set standard gateway IP, this will select the first address in the range for your default route.

  • While you don’t have to use DHCP, we strongly recommend it for an easier workflow. It should be pre-selected.

  • Under Add pool, select what pool you want in the range you choose in previous step. You add a start and stop, for example in the above 192.168.0.0/24 example a start might be 192.168.0.100 and stop 192.168.0.200 giving you 101 addresses in the pool. As the first address (192.168.0.1) is the gateway, you cant include that but can otherwise choose as you see your need.

  • Under Add DNS name server, add the name servers you want your network to use. Binero provides DNS name servers on 83.168.225.225 and 83.168.226.226 and we recommend those but you can use any DNS servers.

  • Press Create subnet

Create a router

To create a router.

  • Press Networking and then Routers in the sidebar menu.

  • Press the + (plus) icon in the lower right corner.

  • europe-se-1 is the pre-selected as region.

  • Name the router and optionally add a description.

  • Under Availability zone, select the same availability zone as the network you setup in the previous step.

  • Under Choose external network, select the network with same name as the availability zone you choose.

  • Press Create

Connect router to subnet

To connect your router on your subnet (to enable networking for the subnet through the router).

  • Press Networking and then Routers in the sidebar menu. Select the router you created in the previous step.

  • In the top right corner, select Create interface icon.

  • The subnet you just created should be pre-selected, if not select it.

  • In the IP for, enter the first IP in the subnet you just created. If you choose 192.168.0.0/24, the first usable address is 192.168.0.1

  • Press Create

At this point you are ready to provision your first compute instance!

You have the option between the following methods:

For users starting out in the platform or users that are not used to working with public clouds, we recommend our cloud management portal.

See also