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• Images uploaded to the Image service.
• Image that you have copied to a persistent volume. The instance launches from the volume, which is provided by the cinder-volume API through iSCSI.
• Instance snapshot that you took.

Launch an instance

1. Log in to the dashboard.
2. Select the appropriate project from the drop down menu at the top left.
3. On the Project tab, open the Compute tab and click Instances category.
   The dashboard shows the instances with its name, its private and floating IP addresses, size, status, task, power state, and so on.
4. Click Launch Instance.
5. In the Launch Instance dialog box (fig), specify the following values:

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Click Launch Instance. The instance starts on a compute node in the cloud.

 Connect to your instance by using SSH

To use SSH to connect to your instance, use the downloaded Key Pair file.

1. Activate the VPN if you are outside the CNAF offices.
2. Take note of the location of your private key, or go to the folder where it is located.
3. Remember the FloatingIP address for your instance.

4. Use the SSH command to make a secure connection to the instance. For example:
   

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   $ ssh -i <key_path>/<key_name> -l <operating_system_users> <FloatingIP>

   
   

5. At the prompt, type yes.

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Manage an instance

1. Log in to the dashboard.
2. Select the appropriate project from the drop down menu at the top left.
3. On the Project tab, open the Compute tab and click Instances category.
4. By clicking the menu list of an instance, you can perform various actions:
   1. You can resize or rebuild an instance.
   2. You can also choose to view the instance console log, edit instance or the security groups.
   3. Depending on the current state of the instance, you can pause, resume, suspend, soft or hard reboot, or terminate it.

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The status will then change to Active once completed.

Track usage for instances

You can track usage for instances for each project. You can track costs per month by showing meters like number of vCPUs, disks, RAM, and uptime for all your instances.

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