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Step-by-step instructions for Compute Cloud

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Yandex Cloud
  • Creating VMs
  • DSVM
  • Placement groups
  • Images with pre-installed software
  • Getting information about VMs
  • Managing VMs
  • Working on VMs
  • Creating a disk
  • Disk management
  • Disk placement groups
  • Creating an image
  • Managing images
  • File storage
  • Managing the serial console
  • Creating instance groups
  • Getting information about instance groups
  • Managing instance groups
  • Dedicated hosts

Creating VMs

  • Creating a VM from a public Linux image
  • Creating a VM from a Windows public image
  • Creating a VM from a set of disks
  • Create a VM with disks restored from snapshots
  • Creating a VM from a custom image
  • Creating a preemptible VM
  • Creating a VM with a GPU

DSVM

  • Yandex Data Science Virtual Machine
  • Creating a VM from a public DSVM image

Placement groups

  • Creating a placement group
  • Deleting a placement group
  • Creating an instance in a placement group
  • Adding a VM to a placement group
  • Removing an instance from a placement group

Images with pre-installed software

  • Creating a VM from a public image
  • Configuring software
  • Working with a VM based on a public image
  • Getting a list of public images

Getting information about VMs

  • Getting information about a VM
  • Viewing serial port output

Managing VMs

  • Stopping, starting, or restarting a VM
  • Attaching a disk to a VM
  • Detaching a disk from a VM
  • Moving a VM to a different availability zone
  • Moving a VM to another folder
  • Binding a public IP to a virtual machine
  • Making a VM's public IP address static
  • Updating a VM
  • Changing VM computing resources
  • Deleting a VM

Working on VMs

  • Connecting to a Linux VM via SSH
  • Connecting to a Windows VM via RDP
  • Connecting to a Windows VM via PowerShell
  • Working with Yandex Cloud from inside a VM
  • Installing NVIDIA drivers
  • Restoring access to a VM

Creating a disk

  • Creating an empty disk
  • Create an empty disk with a large block
  • Creating a non-replicated disk

Disk management

  • Creating a disk snapshot
  • Updating a disk
  • Moving a disk to another folder
  • Deleting a disk
  • Deleting a disk snapshot

Disk placement groups

  • Creating a disk placement group
  • Removing a disk from a placement group

Creating an image

  • Preparing your disk image
  • Uploading a disk image to Yandex Cloud
  • Creating an image from a disk
  • Creating an image from a disk snapshot
  • Creating an image from other custom image

Managing images

  • Deleting a disk image

File storage

  • Creating file storage
  • Attaching file storage to a VM
  • Detaching file storage from a VM
  • Updating file storage
  • Deleting file storage

Managing the serial console

  • Getting started with the serial console
  • Connecting to a VM's serial console via SSH
  • Connecting to a VM's serial console via CLI
  • Start your terminal in the Windows serial console (SAC)
  • Disabling access to the serial console

Creating instance groups

  • Create a fixed-size instance group
  • Creating a fixed-size instance group with a network load balancer
  • Creating a fixed-size instance group with an L7 network load balancer
  • Creating an automatically scaled instance group
  • Creating an instance group from Container Optimized Image
  • Create an instance group based on the specification in YAML format

Getting information about instance groups

  • Get a list of instance groups
  • Getting information about an instance group
  • Getting a list of instances in a group

Managing instance groups

  • Update an instance group
  • Edit an instance group based on the specification in YAML format
  • Configuring application health check on the VM
  • Incremental update
  • Updating without downtime
  • Pausing instance group processes
  • Resuming instance group processes
  • Stop an instance group
  • Start an instance group
  • Delete an instance group

Dedicated hosts

  • Creating a VM in a group of dedicated hosts
  • Creating a VM on a dedicated host

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In this article:
  • Creating VMs
  • DSVM
  • Placement groups
  • Images with pre-installed software
  • Getting information about VMs
  • Managing VMs
  • Working on VMs
  • Creating a disk
  • Disk management
  • Disk placement groups
  • Creating an image
  • Managing images
  • File storage
  • Managing the serial console
  • Creating instance groups
  • Getting information about instance groups
  • Managing instance groups
  • Dedicated hosts