Installation using the Cockpit Deployer Chatbot

The recommended way to deploy a Cockpit is using the Cockpit Deployer Chatbot, as an alternative to installing using an AYS blueprint.

Before continuing make sure you have done all preparation work as documented in the Prepararion section.

An instance of the Cockpit Deployer Chatbot is active as @cockpit81_bot on Telegram. You can also install your own instance of this Cockpit Deployer Chatbot by following the Cockpit Deployer Chatbot installation instructions.

Talk to @cockpit81_bot on Telegram.

The chatbot will ask you some questions about the Cockpit you want to deploy. After answering the questions, the chatbot will take care of deploying a new Cockpit on a G8.

At the end of the deployment the chatbot will send you the information to access/use your newly created Cockpit.

Details about the questions:

• Organization: a Cockpit is always deployed for an organization, which needs to exists on https://itsyou.online/
  • See ItsYou.online pre-installation preparation section for more information about this

• URL of the G8: the chatbot will propose you multiple G8s where you can deploy your Cockpit, make sure to choose one where you have a username with access to a (cloud) account

• Login: your username on the selected G8

• Password: the password of your username on the selected G8

• VDC Name: the name of the VDC on the selected G8 where you want to deploy your Cockpit, if the VDC doesn't exist yet, it will be created

  • See the section Creating a Cloud Space for more information about this
  • Only use lowercases, since all capital letters will be ignored/converted to lowercases

• VDC Location: The location on which the vdc would be created

• Domain: the subdomain name you want for your Cockpit, this can be anything as long as it's a valid/unique subdomain name that will be created as subdomain of aydo2.com

• URL of the GitHub Repository: a Cockpit can save (on-demand) all AYS service instance information into your GitHub repository

  • See the GitHub pre-installation preparation section for more information about this

Once your Cockpit is installed, you will get following information about your Cockpit:

• URL to reach the portal
• IP address and SSH command to connect to the virtual machine running your Cockpit
• SSH key to access the virtual machine

Below some screenshots of the installation conversation in Telegram: