Welcome to Metalcloud’s documentation!¶
The Bigstep Metalcloud is an IaaS service focused on offering low latency and high performance compute and storage services. The service offers the same level of flexibility that is typical from a cloud provider but using only bare metal.
- Connecting to a server through SSH
- Connecting to Windows servers through RDP
- Using the infrastructure firewall
- Managing infrastructures
- Managing instance arrays
- Deploying an instance array using the Infrastructure Editor
- Retrieving server access credentials using the UI
- Deploying an instance array using the CLI
- Retrieving server access credentials using the CLI
- Checking the power status of all the instances in this instance array using the CLI
- Rebooting an instance using the CLI
- Managing drive arrays
- Creating a drive array using the UI
- Listing drive arrays of an instance array using the UI
- Adding a new drive
- Removing a drive
- Expanding disk size
- Creating a drive array using the CLI
- Listing drive arrays of an infrastructure using the CLI
- Deleting a drive array via the CLI
- Manually logging into the iscsi target
- Managing networks
- Managing drive snapshots
- Managing billing information
- Managing users and permissions
- Delegating access to an infrastructure
- Retrieving the utilization report
- Using the CLI
- Using the Terraform provider
- Using the data lake command line tool
- Managing files stored in the Bigstep DataLake service using the WebHDFS API and curl
- Authenticating to the DataLake using kerberos utilities
- Configure Okta for SAML authentication
- How to add boot and install drivers to a repository Windows ISO
- Adding additional IP addresses
- Creating a custom iSCSI OS template
- Creating a custom local install OS template
- Manually managing iSCSI connections
- Retrieving the drive array’s connection details from the UI
- Retriving iscsi access credentials using the CLI
- Logging into the iSCSI target from Linux (CentOS/Redhat)
- Logging into a drive on Windows using PowerShell
- Prepare and format disk in Powershell
- Disconnect from all iscsi targets in Windows using Powershell Or Just disconnect Offline target
- Disable indexing on a drive in Powershell
- Enabling two factor authentication (2FA) in Metalcloud
- Managing assets
- Managing variables and secrets
- Managing stage definitions
- Setting up users and permissions in reseller scenarios
- Deploying a Kubernetes cluster and managing/setting up a sample app using the UI
- Monitoring and connecting via SSH to the cluster using the UI
- Setting up a sample application on Kubernetes