Deploying an Amazon Machine ImageΒΆ

Note

You cannot deploy a Windows based appliance using the Deploy feature.

You can only deploy a machine image to Amazon if you have AMP installed. For more information, refer to the official Cloudsoft AMP documentation

In order to deploy a machine image to Amazon, you must already have credentials to access that environment setup on UForge. Trial accounts are not supported for publishing images from UForge. Only full Amazon accounts can be used.

  1. If not already done, create an account for the target environment. For more information, see Managing Cloud Accounts.

  2. Go to the appliance and click the Machine Images page. If you have not generated a machine image, you will need to do so as described in Generating a Machine Image.

  3. Click on the arrow pointing to the right to publish your image. Select Amazon.

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  4. Following the instructions, choose the account and fill in any additional information required.

Warning

If your appliance has any elements such as passwords that must be set up by the user or licenses accepted at installation, you will see a warning when you publish the image which indicates This image requires additional user interactions at startup (as shown below). In this case, you will not be able to use the deploy feature.

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  1. Click publish.

Note

Publishing an image to Amazon will be billed to the user account.

  1. The publication will take a few minutes to complete (depending on the size of the image and the network connectivity between UForge and the target environment). The publication progress is shown. At the end of the publication, the machine image has been published by UForge to your target environment.

  2. Under Published Machine Images, next to your appliance, you will now see the deploy (rocket) icon. In order to deploy your Amazon machin image, click on this icon.

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  3. In the pop-up window, enter the name of the deployment. Click on deploy. This will connect to Amazon and launch your machine image instance. Once deployed, a green button will appear under the Status column.

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  4. From the Deployments page you can see the instances deployed on Amazon and their status. If the status is green it is up and running on Admazon. If it is red, there has been an issue during deployment and/or it is stopped.

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Note

If you want to stop your deployment on Amazon, you can do so by clicking on the delete (garbage) icon. This will stop it and remove the instance from Amazon.