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Welcome to IBM Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud. As a member of the
team, I would like to show you just how easy it can be to create a fixed IP address, add extra
storage and work with security keys.
The account tab, followed by the profile sub-tab is where we work with the security keys as well
as the IP addresses. It’s important to note that I must create my static IP address or my extra
storage before I create the instance. Please remember, if my Cloud based applications use
dynamically created IP addresses, then I do not require a fixed IP address and there is no need
to add an IP address. However, for the sake of this demonstration I will assume that I have an
application that needs a fixed IP address.
I click on the add IP link. A pop-up appears. I select the data center closets to the team using
the instance. In this example, VLAN is not enabled so the IP address will reside on the public
internet. I click submit.
The progress indicator spins for a few moments and then we see the IP address success page. I
close this pop-up and in the second table labeled Your IPs I see the IP column change from
pending to the actual IP value.
Now I’ll demonstrate how to create extra storage. I must have the storage ready before I create
the instance that will use it. Notice that on the control panel pad, there are three sub-tabs.
Instances, Images and Storage. I will click on the storage sub-tab and then click the ‘Add storage
to get started’ link. First, I choose the data center that is closest to my team’s geographical
location and then I will give this new storage a convenient name that I will remember later.
Since we are setting up another test environment, we will call this one QA Testing Pandora.
I choose a storage size and then the format. I click next to continue. I verify these are the
values I want for my storage. If they are not correct, I can click previous and update the earlier
parameters. These values are good for our demo so I click next.
Before adding storage, I should understand the agreement and attachments. If I have any
questions, I would contact my account administrator. I accept the agreement. Then I click next
to continue.
After the progress indicator completes, I see the pop-up indicating the request for storage has
been successfully submitted. I close the pop-up and return to the storage tab. Notice that after
I added my first storage unit, the storage panel reconfigures itself. It changes from the guided
layout to a dashboard view. And now each storage unit appears as a row in the table.
The status column shows that my recently requested storage changes from new to creating to
un-mounted. When the status changes to un-mounted it’s ready to be used with a new
instances. To review, once the storage has been created, I can then click on the instance tab.
Then click add another instance to get started. Select an instance, configure the instance and at
the bottom, here, I can select the storage that I just created.
So in summary, I can add storage but I must first create the storage, wait for the status to
change to un-mounted and then I can add the storage when I configure the instance.
Now I’m going to talk about modifying the SSH key pairs. IBM Smart Business Development &
Test on the IBM Cloud allows access through a key pair. There was a public key and a private
key. I have downloaded our private key in the demo entitled, Add An Instance. They are named
something such as IBMCloud_ JohnDoe@ US.ibm(2).com_rsa. The public keys reside with the
instances and are always paired at key generation time with the specific private key.
In this video, I will show how we can create and manage key pairs outside of an instance wizard.
The account tab contains a sub-tab titled profile. Here we can see information about my
account with IBM Smart Business Development & Test on the IBM Cloud. The table Security Key
Pairs displays my security keys. The change default key function allows me to select a key pair
to use for all of the future instances I create. This is only a default.
While configuring an instance, I can change the key pair to any existing key pair or to a new key
pair. To show how this works, I will click on the change default key link. The change default key
dialogue box pops up. I click on the dropdown list. I see the available keys and select the one
entitled Red Queen that I want to be the default and then I click the continue button which
takes us back to the account tab. In this case, my Red Queen Security Key Pair is now the
default key pair that will displayed first when I configure future instances.
IBM Development & Test does not force me to use its generated key pairs. I can add an existing
key pair that I created from another non-IBM application. To demonstrate this I will click on the
Add Key button.
We see a pop-up that allows me to name my key pair and then to cut and paste the public key
into the large entry field. Let’s give the new key pair a name. I’ll call it John’s old key pair from
2008. Offline, I will open my old public key in an editor. Copy it’s contents into the clipboard
and then paste it into the field labeled, key contents.
We click continue and now we can see in the fourth row the old key pair ready for me to use for
my instances. The next function that we will briefly discuss is called generate new key. We’ll
click on generate new key and we’re back in the same series of pop-ups that I demonstrated
during the Instances Creation Wizard.
I must remember to save this private key. If I lose it, I will not be able to access the instances
that use that key. After completing the generate new key sequence, I would click on close and
return to the account tab where my key pair that I just generated shows in the table. This
concludes our demo for IP addresses, storage and key pairs.
For more information about key pairs, storage or static IP addresses, please check out our
support page and check out our video and documentation libraries. To learn more about IBM
and its Cloud initiatives, please visit IBM.com/Cloud. Thank you.
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