<ahref="https://cloud.gitlab-pages.ics.muni.cz/documentation/register/#personal-project">User projects</a> (generated for every user) are not meant to contain production machines.
If you use your personal project for long-term services, you have to to ask for a <ahref="https://cloud.gitlab-pages.ics.muni.cz/documentation/register/#group-project">GROUP</a> project (even if you do not work in a group or you do not need any extra quotas).
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This guide aims to provide a walk-through for setting up a rudimentary
virtual infrastructure in MetaCentrum Cloud. It is a good jumping-off
point for most users.
MetaCentrum Cloud is the [IaaS cloud](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_a_service) on top of [open-source OpenStack project](https://opendev.org/openstack).
Users may configure and use cloud resources for reaching individual (scientific) goals.
Most important cloud resources are:
* virtual machines
* virtual networking (VPNs, firewalls, routers)
* private and/or public IP addresses
* storage
* cloud load balancers
The left sidebar can be used for navigation throughout the documentation.
The whole guide can also be downloaded as PDFs for printing or later use.
__New users__ should head over to the [Get Access](/register/README.md)
section and make sure they have an active user account and required
permissions to access the service.
__Beginners__ should start in the [Quick Start](/quick-start/README.md)
section which provides a step-by-step guide for starting the first
virtual machine instance.
__Advanced users__ should continue in the [Advanced Features](/gui/README.md)
or [Command Line Interface](/cli/README.md) sections, as these are
more suitable for complex use cases and exploration of available
features.
__Expert users__ with complex infrastructural or scientific use cases
should contact user support and request assistance specifically for
their use case.
__Frequently asked questions__ and corresponding answers can be found in
the [FAQ](/faq/README.md) section. Please, consult this section before
contacting user support.
Bear in mind that this is not the complete documentation to OpenStack
but rather a quick guide that is supposed to help you with elementary
use of our infrastructure. If you need more information, please turn
to [the official documentation](https://docs.openstack.org/train/user/)
or contact user support and describe your use case.
Please visit [Network](/network/README.md) section in order to see how you should set up the network.
**2021-05-21** Flavor list was created and published. Also parameters of following flavors were changed:
* hpc.8core-64ram
* hpc.8core-16ram
* hpc.16core-32ram
* hpc.18core-48ram
* hpc.small
* hpc.medium
* hpc.large
* hpc.xlarge
* hpc.xlarge-memory
* hpc.16core-128ram
* hpc.30core-64ram
* hpc.30core-256ram
* hpc.ics-gladosag-full
* csirtmu.tiny1x2
None of the parameters were decreased but increased. Updated parameters were Net througput, IOPS and Disk througput. Existing instances will have the previous parameters so if you want to get new parameters, **make a data backup** and rebuild your instance You can check list of flavors [here](/flavors/README.md).
**2021-04-13** OpenStack image `centos-8-1-1911-x86_64_gpu` deprecation in favor of `centos-8-x86_64_gpu`. Deprecated image will be still available for existing VM instances, but will be moved from public to community images in about 2 months.
**2021-04-05** OpenStack images renamed
**2021-03-31** User documentation update
**2020-07-24** Octavia service (LBaaS) released
**2020-06-11**[Public repository](https://gitlab.ics.muni.cz/cloud/cloud-tools) where Openstack users can find usefull tools
**2020-05-27** Openstack was updated from `stein` to `train` version
**2020-05-13** Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) available in image catalog
**2020-05-01** Released [Web page](https://projects.cloud.muni.cz/) for requesting Openstack projects
