Hosts

Overview

The Infrastructure -> Hosts section provides a universal stage for viewing and managing Hosts and Virtual Machines from all of your Clouds.

In this section you can:

  • View & Manage all Hosts, Virtual Machines & Bare Metal

  • Provision Docker & KVM Hosts

  • Convert existing hosts to Docker & KVM Hosts

  • Add Hypervisors

  • Convert Hosts, Virtual Machines and Bare Metal to Managed

    Important

    When local firewall management is enabled, Conduit will automatically set an IP table rule to allow incoming connections on tcp port 22 from the Conduit Appliance.

Hosts

Hosts in Conduit are Hypervisors and Docker Hosts that your VM’s and Container are hosted on, such as ESXi, Hyper-V and Docker Hosts. These Hosts are populated from integrated clouds, hosts provisioned from Conduit, or manually added Hosts.

Virtual Machines

The Virtual Machines tab lists all Managed and Unmanaged VM’s across Conduit . Managed VM’s are either provisioned by Conduit, or inventoried VM’s that were converted to managed. Unmanaged VM’s are from Cloud integrations with “Inventory Existing Instances” enabled in the Cloud settings.

Bare Metal

Bare Metal hosts are from PXE Boot or manually added in this section. Bare Metal hosts that are also Hypervisors will be listed in both the Bare Metal and Hypervisor sections.

Docker Hosts

Overview

Conduit can provision Docker Hosts into any cloud, convert existing Hosts to Docker Hosts, or even make itself a Docker Host.

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To add a Docker Host to any cloud:

  1. Navigate to Infrastructure -> Hosts
  2. Click the +CONTAINER HOST button
  3. Select a container host type
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  1. Select a Group
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  1. Enter the following:
  • Name
  • Description
  • Visibility
  • Select a Cloud
  • Enter tags (optional)

Then click NEXT.

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  1. Configure the host options
Select a Service Plan (Volume, Memory and CPU count fields may not be shown if selected service plan does not have custom options enabled).
  • Add and set size the volumes
  • Set memory size
  • Set the CPU count
  • Select a network
Optionally configure the following:
  • OS username
  • OS password
  • Domain name
  • Hostname (default is the name previously provided for the container host)

Then click the NEXT button

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  1. Optionally add any Automation Workflows and configure for Backups.
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  1. Review and click Complete to save
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Your new container host will begin provisioning, and soon be running and ready for containers.

Add an existing Docker Host

Conduit can manage and inventory existing/brownfield Docker Hosts by using the Manual Docker Host option.

Note

Adding a Docker Host that was previously managed by another Conduit Appliance will disable management of the host on that Appliance as the Conduit Agent settings will be reconfigured.

Note

Container Mode on the Cloud settings where the Host is being added must be set to Conduit for non-Kubernetes/Swarm hosts.

  1. Navigate to Infrastructure -> Hosts

  2. Select +CONTAINER HOST button

  3. Select Manual Docker Host

  4. In the CREATE HOST Wizard, enter the following:

    GROUP

    GROUP

    Select the Group this Host will be available for

    Select NEXT

    NAME

    CLOUD

    Select the Cloud the Host will be assigned to

    NAME

    Enter name for the Docker Host in Conduit

    DESCRIPTION

    Enter optional description for the Docker Host

    VISIBILITY

    Select Tenant Visibility

    TAGS

    Add optional Conduit tags (these are not meta-data tags)

    Select NEXT

    CONFIGURE

    SSH HOST

    Enter IP or resolvable hostname of the target host

    SSH USER

    Enter existing username on the target host

    SSH PASSWORD

    Enter password for SSH User

    PUBLIC KEY

    For key auth (recommended), copy and add the displayed Public Key to the authorized_keys file on the target host.

    PLAN

    Default Manual

    LVM ENABLED?

    Deselect if target host is not LVM enabled (required when using Conduit provided docker images)

    DATA VOLUME

    Enter path of the target data volume on the target host

    SOFTWARE RAID?

    Enable for software RAID (disabled by default)

    NET INTERFACE

    Enter network interface name of target host’s target network

    Select NEXT

    AUTOMATION

    POST PROVISION

    Select a workflow to execute after Host is added (optional).

    Select NEXT

    REVIEW

    Review settings and select COMPLETE to add the Manual Docker Host.

Your new container host will begin provisioning, and soon be running and ready for containers.

Note

Existing containers will be inventoried after the Hosts is successfully added.