README.md

Making New Machines From A Template

This guide will show you how to use the new hypervisor Harvester with a nice Kubernetes Management Platform known as Rancher to create a new Virtual Machine from a predefined template.

Step 1: Login :) and navigate to Virtualization Management

You're going to need to sign into your account, then you will presented with the homepage.

Press the Virtualization Management button to gain access to the clusters you have permission to.

Step 2: Choose target cluster.

Press the appropriate cluster that you want.

Step 3: Choose Virtual Machines

You'll be at the Dashboard homepage by default. So now you can choose to create new VMs by choosing the Virtual Machines tab.

Step 4: Create a new VM

Choose Create

Step 5: Name the machine

Be very particular, they don't like capital letters or periods. But dashes are ok.

Step 6: Choose Template

Because we're so nice at UML, we gave you a base Ubuntu template. But you can make your own (different guide at a different time). So for now, you can use the ccdc/ubuntu-22.04-template that was here at the time.

Make sure to choose the Use VM Template: checkbox to be prompted with the option to choose the template within your namespace.

Step 7: Choose Cloud-Init template (optional)

If you want to use our cloud-init template (or another one), you can go down to Advanced Options and then choose a User Data Template to use ours with the default blueteam password where the username is blueteam.

Step 7a: Change the IP of the static netplan configuration

If you're using the template, then you'll see the netplan configuration that you need to change. Just change to a non-occupied IP and you're set to press the Create button.

Step 8: Press Create

Press the button.

Step 9: Just wait

Now, you can rest easy and it should be taken care of. The cloud-init steps will be run once when the machine boots up. I believe it's a one time operation. But you should see the IP change to your static IP once everything is ready to go.