Getting started

What is CloudOps?

CloudOps is an infrastructure management platform that gives real hardware the ergonomics of a public cloud. You bring bare-metal servers — or rent them from the built-in marketplace — and the platform turns them into a private cloud: virtual machines, databases, storage volumes, and networks that you provision from a console, a REST API, or Terraform.

Everything the platform does to your hardware runs as a tracked, auditable automation job, so there are no snowflake servers and no mystery state.

1. Create your organization

Sign in and create an organization. Organizations own everything — tenants, servers, billing — and support multiple members with role-based access (owner, admin, member, viewer, billing). Invite your team from the organization settings page.

2. Connect or rent hardware

You have two ways to get capacity:

• Bring your own. Register your bare-metal servers and let the platform network-boot and image them. See Bare-metal provisioning.
• Rent from the marketplace. Browse verified servers listed by independent operators and rent them in a few clicks. Rented servers behave exactly like your own. See Marketplace.

3. Provision your first workload

From the console, create a virtual machine on any of your servers: pick vCPUs, memory, disk, and an OS image, and the platform handles the rest — including networking and a browser-based console for when you need hands on the keyboard.

4. Codify it

Once you like what you have, describe it in Terraform so it lives in version control. The Automation & API page covers API tokens and the Terraform provider.