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Deploying A Server

Prerequisites​

Now that the provider has been configured, the next step is to get a server online. This is a super straight forward process and can be done in a few simple steps.

  1. Click on Infrastructure from the main navigation and then Servers.
  2. Click on the Deploy button to open the server deploy wizard.
  3. Click on the provider who you've integrated with and select a location that you'd like to deploy the server to.
  4. Use the final page of the form to select the server you'd like and click Deploy. (This form is explained in more detail below).

Once you've deployed the server, it will take a few minutes to come online. During that time, Cycle will be programmatically interacting with your provider to do things like:

  1. Install CycleOS on the server.
  2. Set up the servers IP address.

Its also common for Cycle to create its own VPC at the provider the first time a server is deployed. This is so Cycle can have a safe, managed space to create infrastructure in for the users that isn't "inside" of other VPCs.

Server Deploy Wizard Final page​

The final page of the server deploy wizard has a lot of information for the user. For a full breakdown check out this page

Here is a great image from that page with some descriptions of what you're seeing there:

deploy form

  1. At the bottom of the order summary, users are presented with the sum of new costs to be expected from their provider & Cycle after deploying this server.
  2. The hub usage summary shows the current state of your infrastructure for a given hub and then changes to accommodate the servers a user adds to the order summary. A node represents a server.
  3. Server selection is done by using the ^ carrat button to increase or v carrat to decrease the number of servers of any given type. The orders summary shows the total selection in real time.