Get started with Bulutistan Cloud

Bulutistan Cloud is a public cloud built on OpenStack. You create virtual machines, storage, and networks in your projects, control who can access them, and pay per second for what you use. You work in the web console, with the REST API, or with OpenStack tools such as Terraform and the openstack CLI. Your resources run in the regions your platform offers, such as Istanbul 1.

Your first stepsCopy Anchor Link

1. Create an account. Sign up with your email address. Your organization starts with a subscription and a project, and you're their owner. See Create an account.
2. Protect your sign-in. Set up two-factor authentication with an authenticator app. See Sign in and set up two-factor authentication.
3. Find your way around. Learn the top bar, the Services menu, and the command palette. See Find your way around the console.
4. Create a network. Create a network with a subnet, and a router that connects it to the internet. See Quickstart: Create a network with a subnet and a router.
5. Create a virtual machine. Create a Linux instance with an SSH key pair and a public IP address, and sign in to it. See Quickstart: Create a Linux virtual machine.
6. Invite your team. Invite members, and give each of them a role. See Invite and manage members.

Key featuresCopy Anchor Link

• Self-service sign-up. Create your account and your organization yourself, without a card or payment details. See Create an account.
• Subscriptions and projects. Keep the billing of different units apart in subscriptions, and the resources of different teams or environments apart in projects. See Tenants, subscriptions, projects, and regions.
• Roles and two-factor authentication. Give members built-in or custom roles on a subscription or a project, and require 2FA for everyone. See What is Identity & Access Management?.
• Per-second billing. Usage is measured per second, with a minimum of 60 seconds per resource, and billed on one invoice for each subscription and month. See How billing works.
• Three currencies. Each subscription is billed in TRY, USD, or EUR. See Subscriptions and currency.
• APIs and tools. Automate with the REST API, or use Terraform, the openstack CLI, and Kubernetes integrations through OpenStack API Access. See Developer tools overview.

How it worksCopy Anchor Link

Your organization is a tenant. It holds one or more subscriptions, and each subscription holds one or more projects. A subscription is a billing account: it sets the currency and the region, and it receives the invoices. A project is where your resources live, and each project is a separate project in the underlying OpenStack cloud.

You give people access with roles. A role granted on a subscription applies to all of its projects; a role granted on a project applies to that project only. See Tenants, subscriptions, projects, and regions.

Quotas cap how much of each resource a subscription can use, and the subscription's quota is shared between its projects. See Quotas.

Use casesCopy Anchor Link

• Applications. Run web and business applications on virtual machines, behind load balancers.
• Data storage and backup. Keep disks on Block Storage volumes and files in Object Storage buckets, and back up volumes on a schedule with Backup Center.
• Infrastructure as code. Create and change resources with Terraform or the REST API instead of the console.

BillingCopy Anchor Link

Each item is billed in the unit that fits it: per hour for compute and other running resources, per GB-month for stored data, per GB for data sent, such as internet traffic through a router, and per period for monthly or yearly add-ons and licenses. Usage is measured per second, with a minimum of 60 seconds per resource. You pay each monthly invoice by bank transfer. See Per-second metering and Invoices and payments. For prices, see Pricing.

LimitsCopy Anchor Link

• Quotas apply to each subscription, and you can request higher ones. See Quotas.
• A tenant can have a limited number of subscriptions, and a subscription a limited number of projects. When you reach the limit, you can't create more.
• Each product has its own limits. See, for example, Virtual Machines limits.

Related servicesCopy Anchor Link

• Compute: Virtual Machines, Images, and Snapshots.
• Storage: Block Storage, Object Storage, and Backup Center.
• Networking: Virtual Networks, Security Groups, Load Balancers, Site-to-Site VPN, and Floating IPs.
• Security & Identity: Identity & Access Management and OpenStack API Access.
• Management & Governance: Monitoring & Alerts, Cost Management, Activity Log, and Resource Explorer.
• Billing: subscriptions, metering, invoices, credits, and quotas.

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