The de. NBI cloud team in Bielefeld can be contacted via email: os-service at cebitec. The OpenStack Dashboard as main entry point to the de. You can get an up-to-date list of API endpoints of the available services using the dashboard or the OpenStack command-line tool openstack endpoint list.
The network configuration abilities are a bit different as described in the Quickstart Guide. Project network routers are managed by the de. NBI Cloud Bielefeld team. All other network management operations are unrestricted. The routers of the deNBI projects are located in an unrestricted public network. The MTU value provided to the network interfaces is and therefore differs from an expected default value e.
You have to consider this if running docker or any other container technology. Preconfigured cloud images are available for Ubuntu LTS These images apply some auto-configuration on boot specific to the cloud site Bielefeld:. We run an apt mirror for Ubuntu LTS releases The storage backend used by the Bielefeld cloud site is powered by Ceph.
The latter should be preferred due to better performance. You can find a tutorial here on how to use this service. Users should be aware, that instances are ephemeral. This means, that instances can go offline for various reasons.
This is most likely due to hardware issues on the hypervisor. Users can prepare against this by storing their data in the storage infrastructure of this compute center.
