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User guide

Felipe Fonseca edited this page Mar 11, 2018 · 10 revisions

Getting started

Download installer from this page and install subutai system on your computer. After this you will be able to launch Subutai tray application.

Linux installation

Linux installation could be little bit complicated for not experienced linux user. Next steps describe this process for ubuntu :

  1. Download deb packages from this page. There is menu item in linux section.
  2. Launch sudo dpkg -i p2p.deb .
  3. Launch sudo dpkg -i tray.deb .
  4. After installation complete you will be able to launch tray application by this command : SubutaiTray

Authorization

Each time (except conditions described below) tray application starts with login window.

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Login here is your HUB login. Password - your password. Show password when type works like this :

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Remember me : if checked then tray will start without this login dialog and with current user. Below this checkbox you can see "Register" link. It redirects to HUB registration page.

If something goes wrong you will see special messages like these (it's not complete list of possible messages):

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After successful log in you should see application's tray icon. tray0

Main menu

In main menu you can see your current balance, generate and upload SSH keys for your environments, launch HUB page and SubutaiSocial console, see your environments and container, manage your virtual machines and update system components (on "About" page).

Main menu :
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Launch sub menu :
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Environments sub menu :
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VM management sub menu :
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Generate SSH key

This dialog allows you to create new (or see your current) SSH key. Also you can add current key to your environments and copy public part of key to clipboard.

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Settings

This dialog allows you to change application behavior. It's recommended to use default values.

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Refresh time : when something changes on HUB tray will display it after this time. Notification delay is time that user can see any tray notification. Logs storage : folder where tray should store it's log files. SSH-key storage : folder where tray should store generated SSH key pairs. EZ-SSH user : this user will be used in ssh to container session.

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P2P command : full path to p2p executable or "p2p" (default value is "p2p". in this case p2p executable should be presented in system PATH variable). SSH command : full path to ssh executable or "ssh". See comment above.

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Here you can specify resource host that will be used by tray. Default value is "127.0.0.1" (localhost).

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Here you can specify check for update frequency for each component in tray.

About

This window allows you to see versions of components. Also you can force update here. image