Launching Virtual Machines

Networks, Security Groups and Key Pair

Networks

For basic usage, we are going to choose Classic Provider.

Launch networks

You can learn more about making your own private networks and other networking topics in our Advanced Networking tutorial.

Security Groups

Use the up-arrow button to select the SSH security group.

If you’re following the Cloud Starter Curriculum, you created this in the tutorial Security groups, the absolute basics

Launch Security groups

Key Pair

Use the up-arrow button to select your public key.

What was this?
If you’re following the Cloud Starter Curriculum, you created this in the tutorial Creating a keypair for use in Nectar

Don’t forget the keys!
For connecting to your instance using SSH you must select a key pair.

Launch Key Pair

Optional tabs

The tabs Configuration, Server Groups and Metadata are optional and are not part of this tutorial.