Basics

The “Basics” tab lets you enter all the minimum information required to declare a server.

Fill out the fields:

• Name: this is your server hostname and the name it has in the YaK application

  • ⚠️ Server names can only contains letters, numbers and "-" characters and cannot exceed 15 characters.

• Select the infrastructure to deploy your servers to (Infrastructure must already exist)

• Select an image to install in the list of the "provider image name" field (see also note below)

• Select a server shape (YaK comes with a list of default shapes, but more shapes can be added - see dedicated section)

• Server Tags (optional)

  • Server tags are key:value pairs that can be added to your server for your own purpose. You may add custom tags as per your need (this step is optional)

• Network

  • IP address: fill in as per your need or use automatic IP with public address. Assign IP addresses according to your cloud strategy and internal rules.

  • Scope: private or public IP address

  • Mode:

    1. Automatic (lets your provider assign a DHCP address to your server)

    2. Manual (this is to set an IP address manually)

    3. None (no IP address will be configured)

  • Admin access checkbox: Grant admin access to the YaK via this IP address.

    • At least one network interface must be set as "admin access", this is required for the Yak to connect to your server and deploy components on it.

  • Note: additional network interfaces can be added by clicking the "+" sign.

Note: Please note that images are specific to a region at some cloud providers (ex: AWS and OCI). This is not related to the YaK, but is a cloud provider's limitation.

An image declared with region "eu-central-1" for example, will be available to infrastructures that belong to the same region only.

If the same image needs to be used on 2 different regions, it must be declared twice (once for each region)

See "Provider images" section for more details.