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ScienceCloud Web Interface

🔧 Under Development

This page is under active development. Content is being updated as we prepare the new version of ScienceCloud for production. Some sections may be incomplete or subject to change.

The ScienceCloud Web Interface login can be found here: https://cloud.science-it.uzh.ch.

Through the ScienceCloud Web Interface end-users can both access and control the provisioning of instances and data volumes as well as customize network configurations.

Attention

For security reasons, you can access the ScienceCloud web interface only from the UZH internal network. Please use the UZH VPN if you are connecting from off-campus.

User Profile

The top-right icon of the web interface allows users to access:

  • Settings: the User Settings allow one to change the default view of the web interface.
  • Help: a shortcut to official OpenStack Documentation.

Project Menu

  • From the Project dropdown menu you can view and manage the resources in a selected project, including instances and images.
  • Each user is a member of one or more projects. Within each project, the user can create and manage instances, data volumes, and networks.
  • Projects have quotas limiting their available resources.
    • Each quota sets the total number of resources that can be allocated simultaneously to all members of a project.
    • Quotas are comprised of limits on the number of computing cores, the available RAM (in GB), the number of instances, the number of data volumes, and the total amount of data volume space (in GB).
API Access

Show API endpoints and download OpenStack RC File for authentication through OpenStack Command Line Interface (CLI).

Compute Menu
  • Overview: View reports for the project.
  • Instances: View, launch, create a snapshot from, stop, pause, or reboot instances, as well as connect to them through VNC.
  • Images: View images and instance snapshots created by project users, plus any images that are publicly available. Create, edit, and delete images, and launch instances from images and snapshots.
  • Key Pairs: View, create, edit, import, and delete key pairs.
  • Server Groups:
Volumes Menu
  • Volumes: View, create, edit, and delete volumes.
  • Backups:
  • Snapshots: View, create, edit, and delete volume snapshots.
  • Groups:
  • Group Snapshots:
Network Menu
  • Network Topology: View the network topology.
  • Networks: Create and manage public and private networks.
  • Routers: Create and manage subnets.
  • Security Groups: View, create, edit, and delete security groups and security group rules. In other words, define the various ways and ports that can be used to connect to an instance (e.g., opening a port to allow the use of RStudio Server or Jupyter).
  • Load Balancers:
  • Floating IPs: Allocate an IP address to, or release it from, a project.
Object Store Menu
  • Containers: Create and manage object stores.