This page allows you to create a new virtual system running on Amazon's
EC2 service. Unlike the other virtual system types supported by Cloudmin,
it is not created on a host system owned by you or from one of the locally
stored images - instead, it is created from a AMI (Amazon Machine Image)
hosted on the S3 service.
The fields on this form that need to be filled in to create a EC2 instance
are :
- System description
- A short human-readable description for this new virtual system, like
Webserver on EC2.
- SSH key for root
- New EC2 instances are always only accessible via an SSH key, rather than
with a password. From this menu you must select a key that has been
registered with Cloudmin, and with EC2.
- Allow creation of Virtualmin domains?
- This setting determines if the newly create system can have Virtualmin
domains added to it. Typically you will want to leave this set to
Yes.
- Update Virtualmin packages?
- When this is set to Yes (as it is by default) and you are creating
a system from an AMI that includes Virtualmin Pro, all packages used by
Virtualmin will be updated to the latest available versions after creation
is complete.
- EC2 account
- If you have multiple EC2 accounts registered with Cloudmin, you must select
the one that will own this new instance from this menu.
- EC2 image to start
- This menu lists all of the EC2 images (or AMIs) that are available to you.
The default will be an image containing the full Virtualmin stack, but you
can also choose images with various Linux distributions provided by Amazon
and other vendors.
- EC2 instance size
- Amazon offers several different virtual system types for EC2 instances, of
varying CPU speed, available memory and disk space. The large
and extra large sizes can only be used with 64-bit images, and
cost more per instance-hour than the small size.
- EC2 security groups
- Each EC2 instance can be a member of one or more security groups, which
determine the ports and hosts allowed to connect to it. If Default
is selected the virtualmin group created by Cloudmin will be used - or
you can choose Selected below and check the boxes next to one or more
of your own groups.
When the Create button is clicked, Cloudmin will contact Amazon to start
the creation process. Depending on the size of the image, this can take between
5 and 10 minutes. The DNS hostname of the newly created system is assigned by
Amazon, but can be changed later once you have added an entry for the same
IP address to your own DNS domain.