info_tfgrid/collections/dashboard/solutions/tfrobot.md

TFRobot

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Prerequisites
• Deployment
• Deployed Instances Table

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Introduction

TFRobot is tool designed to automate mass deployment of groups of VMs on the ThreeFold Grid, with support of multiple retries for failed deployments.

Features

• Mass Deployment: Deploy groups of VMs on the grid simultaneously.
• Mass Cancellation: Cancel simultaneously all VMs on the grid defined in the configuration file.
• Load Deployments: Load simultaneously groups of VMs deployed with TFRobot.
• Customizable Configurations: Define node groups, VMs groups and other configurations through YAML or JSON files.

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have a wallet
• From the sidebar click on Applications
• Click on TFRobot

Deployment

• Enter an Application Name.

• Select a capacity package:

  • Small: {cpu: 1, memory: 2, diskSize: 25 }
  • Medium: {cpu: 2, memory: 4, diskSize: 50 }
  • Large: {cpu: 4, memory: 16, diskSize: 100 }
  • Or choose a Custom plan

• Choose the network

  • Public IPv4 flag gives the virtual machine a Public IPv4
  • Public IPv6 flag gives the virtual machine a Public IPv6
  • Planetary Network flag gives the virtual machine an Yggdrasil address
  • Mycelium flag gives the virtual machine a Mycelium address
  • Wireguard Access to add a WireGuard acces to the Virtual Machine

• Dedicated flag to retrieve only dedicated nodes

• Certified flag to retrieve only certified nodes

• Choose the location of the node

  • Region
  • Country
  • Farm Name

• Click on Load Nodes

• Select the node you want to deploy on

• Click Deploy

Deployed Instances Table

At all time, you can see a list of all of your deployed instances: