The Cloud Screen

The Cloud Screen is used for self-service provisioning of new environments for application deployment.

The Cloud Screen consist of two wizards, one for instantiating cloud environments, and one for destroying cloud environments. The wizard helps you to gather the required information to perform the create or destroy task.

Creating an environment

This wizard can help you to create a cloud environment. This wizard consists of four steps:

• Select template - First you need to select an Environment Template. The selection component shows all available instances of cloud.EnvironmentTemplate and udm.Directory available under the Configuration root node of the repository. When you select a template, it will display the description on the right side of the screen.

• Fill in parameters - The second step allows you to fill in aditional parameters. The available parameters depends on the selected template. Common parameters that could be found here are environment id, which lets you specify the name of the environment that will be created (prefixed by Environments), and a second hosts parameters where you can specify where you want to store the created host CIs (prefixed by Infrastructure).

• Run create task - This screen shows the create task. You can review the steps. The cloud create task works exactly the same as the deployment task screen. If you want to continue with creating the environment, click execute. If you do not want to continue, click cancel. You can click previous to change the parameters for this task. This only works if the task has not been started yet. When the task is finished, you can click next to continue.

• View result - The view result page shows the created infrastructure, if any. Typically it will search for all CIs that are part of the created environment. Nodes can be expanded to see contained CIs.

To finish the create wizard you have two options:

• Close - This will close the wizard. The resulting infrastructure CIs have already been added to the repository.
• Deploy - This will start an initial deployment with the created environment selected. From this point you can continue the initial deployment as usual.

Destroying an environment

This wizard can help you destroying a cloud environment. This wizard consist of two steps:

• Select environment - Select the environment you want to destroy. The selection component will only show instances of the cloud.Environment, and udm.Directory. You can expand directories. When you have selected the Environment you want to destroy, click next.

• Run destroy task - This screen shows the destroy task. You can review the steps. If you want to continue with destroying the environment, click execute. If you do not want to continue, click cancel. You can also go back by clicking previous to select a different environment. When the destroy task is complete, you can close the task, and the wizard will restart.