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ScienceCloud Web Interface

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). To use the OpenStack API, see here.

Compute Menu

  • Overview: View basic summaries of project usage—like quotas, resource consumption, and downloadable CSV reports.
  • Instances: View and manage instances: launch new ones, create snapshots, stop, pause, reboot (soft/hard), resize, rebuild, connect via VNC or SSH, and inspect console logs or statuses.
  • 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: Manage ssh key pairs: view, create, edit, import, and delete. Essential for instance access.
  • Server Groups: Create and assign server groups when launching instances.

Volumes Menu

  • Volumes: View, create, edit, and delete block storage volumes.
  • Backups: View, create, edit, and delete backups of volumes (persisted copies).
  • Snapshots: Manage snapshots of volumes: create, view, edit, delete. Useful for point-in-time backups.

Network Menu

  • Network Topology: Visual, interactive depiction of network layout and connectivity.
  • Networks: Create and manage public and private networks.
  • Routers: Create and administer routers, and manage their connections to networks and subnets.
  • Security Groups: View, create, edit, and delete security groups and security group rules. Define firewall rules for instances - control ingress/egress traffic and open ports to allow the use of ssh, RStudio, Jupyter.
  • Load Balancers: Create and manage load balancing pools and listeners.
  • Floating IPs: Allocate or release public IP addresses to/from instances.

Object Store Menu

  • Containers: Create and manage object storage containers and their content.