CloudCannon Documentation

Overview

Tour

This tour showcases some of the current and upcoming features of VirtEngine.

New launcher

A superior easier and awesome launcher.

Step1

  1. Select Region
  2. Type a name for your site (e.g. alwayson-0101.doman.com)
  3. Select the flavor.

Step2

  1. Select your vm version or app git url.

Step 3

  1. Provide security credentials.
  2. Press Launch to confirm.

{#Launching VM#}

Our upcoming panel changes for 2.0 release is shown here.

100’s of Bitnami apps in a second

VirtEngine works directly with a curated set of bitnami apps stored in our database.

  1. Type the app to search eg: red
  2. Press next to confirm the selected app.

{#Launching App - Bitnami#}

A limited set of curated bitnami/VirtEngine prepackaged apps is stored automatically (Please contact support if you need something added).

1000’s of Docker registry using an intuitive search

VirtEngine works directly with the public docker registry. To launch a container:

  1. Type the container to search eg: ubuntu option
  2. Press next to confirm the selected container.

{#Launching Container - Ubuntu#}

Block Storage for VM

VirtEngine works with the virtual machine and allows to attach block storage. To attach block storage to a VM:

  1. Select the Disks tab
  2. Press Attach Disk
  3. Type the disk size 10GB to expand and press Attach

{#Attach Block Storage#}

Snapshots

VirtEngine works with the virtual machine and allows to take snapshots. To take a snashot of a VM:

  1. Select the Snapshots tab
  2. Press Take a Snapshot

{#Take a Snapshot#}

Real-time monitor/Logging

VirtEngine shows beneficial charts to the requirement in real-time.

  1. Select the launched Virtual Machine
  2. Select the CPU (or) RAM (or) Network tab

{#Realtime monitoring/Logging#}

Custom apps with integration to Github

VirtEngine provides compatibility of use of any language like Java, Node.js, Ruby, Php, Scala, C/C++ and Python in custom apps.

  1. Select the launguage rails, java, php, node.js and the version of the runtime.
  2. Press github icon to list the repositories.
  3. Select the repository to launch.

{#Launching CustomApp - Java#}

White label

In addition to header, footer logo and signup promotional image, text can also be customized at your convenience.

Multi region data center

Building a federated datacenter is made easy. VirtEngine provides ability to setup datacenters and use them by consumers anywhere in the world.

Step1:

  1. Select Region
  2. Type a name for your site (e.g. alwayson-0101.doman.com)

{#Launching VM using multiple regions#}

Our upcoming panel changes for 2.0 release is shown here.

Integrated billing with WHMCS

Built-in WHMCS add-on in our product for refill of customer’s balance and payment through WHMCS gateway is really a boon to our product customers.

WHMCS also supports extension using new add-on modules.

VirtEngine WHMCS Add-on Module excels in the functions of:

  • Implementation of VirtEngine REST API

  • Execution of callbacks to VirtEngine about success orders and invoice payments

  • Storing the information with the ability to refill the user’s balance automatically via VirtEngine dashboard.

VirtEngine WHMCS Add-on is inscribed in PHP.

Scalable Cloud Storage

VirtEngine offers a built-in high-performance distributed scalable object storage system conforming to any commodity hardware.

{#Store your file#}

New features in pipeline

Secure Containers coming-soon 2.0

VirtEngine will support well, secure containers based on OpenVZ/Hyper in the forth-coming 2.0 release.

ElasticVM coming-soon 2.0

VirtEngine is likely to provide an option to the user to make the VM elastic which includes:

  1. Scale horizontally on load
  2. Move the VM to the host that is less bleeding

Your kind opinion and feedback on this feature may be given in the forum link here

Scaling App coming-soon 2.0

You will appreciate the performance of this feature, when you scale an app vertically using a load balancer.

Your kind opinion and feedback on this feature may be given in the forum link here

Auto Scaling coming-soon 2.0

You can achieve automatic combining both vertical and horizontal scaling in this feature of our forth-coming 2.0 release.

Your kind opinion and feedback on this feature may be given in the forum link here

Continuous Integration coming-soon 2.0

Continuous integration of code in Github is possible in the forth-coming 2.0 release.

CI

Contact us at support@virtengine.com with any support inquiries. Contact us at hello@virtengine.com for any general queries or feedback.