Creating a container in the cloud installs a new Fuse container on a server instance in your cloud. Fuse Management Console will use jCloud to do the following:
Connect to your cloud provider.
Create a new server instance in the cloud.
Download the binary files required to install a Fuse container.
Install the container in the user's home folder.
Start the container and provision all of the specified profiles.
To create a remote root container:
Select from the top menu.
The Fuse Container Instances page opens.
Click .
The Create Fuse Container wizard opens.
In the Name field, enter a name for the new container.
If you want to make the new container a registry server check Make container a distributed registry server.
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Tip It is recommended that if you create a registry server that you do not deploy any other services into the container.
If you want to be able to remotely debug the container check Enable remote debugging.
If you need to use a Maven proxy to access the repository containing your Fuse artifacts, check the Maven Proxy URL field and enter the URL for your Maven proxy.
If you want to create multiple instances of the container enter a number greater than one in the Count field.
When you create multiple containers the container's number is appended to the value specified in the Name field.
Click .
The Select profiles to install on the container page opens.
Select the version of profiles you want to use for provisioning the container.
The value of this drop down defaults to the value set on the Fuse Profiles page.
Select one or more profiles to deploy to the container.
Click .
The Select the type of container page opens.
Select Cloud-managed Fuse container.
Click .
The Cloud Service Configuration page opens.
Select your cloud provider from the Cloud Provider drop-down list.
In the Cloud Provider Username field, enter the name of the user that is used to access the cloud infrastructure.
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Important The user must have permissions to create server instances.
In the Cloud Provider Password field, enter the user's password.
In the Hardware Kind field, enter a description of the hardware platform the new server instance will emulate.
Click .
The second Cloud Service Configuration page opens.
Select a size for the new server instance from the Instance Type drop-down list.
In the Image ID field, enter a unique ID for the new server instance.
In the Location ID field, enter the ID of the location where the new server instance will be deployed.
Click .
The second Cloud Service Configuration page opens.
In the User Account field, enter the name of the user used to install the new container on the new server instance.
The specified user will be created on the new server instance and granted the required permissions to install the container.
Enter an optional image owner in the Image Owner field.
Enter an optional group tag in the Group Tag field.
Click .
The wizard closes and the new container will appear in the list of containers. Initially the Active indicator may be red, but should turn green shortly after adding it. The Provisioned indicator may also show gray bars, but should turn green when the specified profiles are fully provisioned.








