info_tfgrid/collections/dashboard/solutions/microvm.md

Micro Virtual Machine

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Deployment

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Introduction

We present the steps to deploy a micro VM on the TFGrid.

Deployment

Deploy a new virtual machine on the Threefold Grid

• Make sure you have a wallet
• From the sidebar click on Solutions
• Click on Micro Virtual Machine

Process :

• Fill in the instance name: it's used to reference the VM in the future.
• Choose the image from the drop down (e.g Alpine, Ubuntu) or you can click on Other and manually specify the flist URL and the entrypoint.
• 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 to connect the Virtual Machine to Planetary network
  • Wireguard Access to add a wireguard acces to the Virtual Machine
• GPU flag to add GPU 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
• Choose the node to deploy the Virtual Machine on

Or you can select a specific node with manual selection.

• In the section Environment Variables, you can add any environment variables that the machine might need

• In the section Disks, You can attach one or more disks to the Virtual Machine by clicking on the Disks tab and the plus + sign and specify the following parameters
  • Disk name
  • Disk size

in the bottom of the page you can see a list of all of the virual machines you deployed. you can click on Show details for more details

You can also go to JSON tab for full details