How to Access your Reserved Instance

Learn how to access your reserved instance.

Caution

Every Reservation has an expiration. Ensure you back up and save all instance data before the expiration.

Prerequisites

  • You should have already requested an instance and got it approved by administrative team.

Methods to Access

There are two methods to connect to an instance:

  • Browser: Use the Connect button in the console. No keys required.
  • SSH: You must create SSH keys. Use this guide to create and manage keys.

Note

Keys are stored separately from a regular compute instance’s SSH keys.

Create SSH Key Pair

Caution

Take care not to overwrite any local SSH public keys you may have.

  1. For Windows*:

    1. Launch a PowerShell* terminal on your local system.
    2. If you haven’t generated a key before, copy & paste the following to your terminal to generate it. If you are prompted to overwrite, select No.
      ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f $env:UserProfile\.ssh\id_ed25519
    3. Copy & paste the following to view your SSH public key:
      type $env:UserProfile\.ssh\id_ed25519.pub

  2. For Linux / macOS:

    1. Launch a terminal on your local system.
    2. If you haven’t generated a key before, copy & paste the following to your terminal to generate it. If you are prompted to overwrite, select No.
      ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519
    3. Copy & paste the following to view your SSH public key:
      cat ~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub

  3. Continue to the next steps.

Add Keys

Note

In the Hardware Catalog, adding a public SSH key to launch an instance is optional.

  1. Assure you created an SSH public key on your machine.

  2. Visit the Intel Cloud console home page.

  3. In the console main menu, click the SSH Keys.

  4. In the Keys tab:

  5. Click Upload key.

    Note

    You can add multiple keys.

  6. Switch to the Cloud Instances tab.

  7. Click Request instance.

  8. Complete all required fields (Instance name and Intended Use) in the form Request a Cloud Instance. If you prefer to use SSH to connect, select the SSH key you created earlier.

  9. Click Request.

    Note

    Upon successful completion of the request, you are shown Cloud Instances.

Launch instance

  1. Navigate to Cloud Instances tab.

  2. Wait until your instance State shows Ready.

  3. Click on the instance name. Then choose a method to access.

    1. Click Connect for Connect access.

      Note

      This action launches your cloud instance in a browser. See also the note regarding operating system.

    2. Click SSH for SSH access. Follow instructions.

Co-development

Co-development is optional. If you want to add another user, get the user’s email address. This instruction assumes that you are the account administrator.

Acceptable email domains include:

  • Users with the same email domain as your company

  • Intel staff with Intel email domain (for co-development and support)

Add Email Domain from your Company

  1. Under Associated Email, add a user with same email domain as your company.

  2. Paste the SSH public key in Key contents.

  3. Click Upload key.

Add Email Domain from Intel

Only use if you are collaborating with Intel Corporation staff and want to share access to your Cloud instance.

  1. Under Co-development, click the toggles switch.

  2. Under Associated Email, add the Intel staff email address for the person with whom you’re collaborating.

  3. Paste the SSH public key in Key contents.

  4. Click Upload key.

    Note

    Once co-development is complete, unlink the Intel Corporation staff’ SSH public key by editing your instance at Cloud instances.

As an Intel Employee: Add an External Partner

If you are an Intel employee and need to collaborate with a third-party partner company on a reservation you own, you can grant access to users from the partner's email domain.

Important

By enabling co-development you confirm that all intellectual property shared between Intel and the external partner is governed by an existing NDA or partnership agreement, and that you are authorized to grant such access on behalf of Intel Corporation. You are solely responsible for ensuring the partner complies with Intel's confidentiality and export control obligations. Please also read the Intel IPA Master Terms and Conditions before enabling co-development access for an external partner.

At launch time (recommended):

  1. On the Launch page, scroll to the Co-development with external Partner checkbox and enable it.

  2. Check the box "I understand and agree to the above, and I have read and agree to the Intel IPA Master Terms and Conditions".

  3. Enter the partner company's email domain (for example partner.com). The domain cannot be intel.com and cannot be changed once the reservation is created.

  4. Add up to 10 partner users under Additional users. Only @<partner-domain> email addresses are accepted.

  5. Upload or select SSH keys associated with either your own Intel email or with @<partner-domain> emails. Keys from other domains cannot be attached to a co-development reservation.

  6. Submit the launch request. Partner users will receive an email notifying them that they have been granted access to the instance(s).

On an existing reservation:

  1. Go to Cloud Instances, click the instance name, and choose Edit.

  2. Enable Co-development with external Partner and complete the same steps above (agreement, partner domain, additional users, SSH keys).

Restrictions when co-development is enabled

  • A secondary owner is not allowed on a co-development reservation. The secondary owner field will be cleared and locked. This prevents another Intel user from gaining access to third-party material without explicitly agreeing to the co-development terms.

  • Additional users must all be from the declared partner domain; Intel users (other than yourself, the primary owner) cannot be added.

  • The partner domain is locked once the reservation is created. You cannot disable co-development or change the partner domain on the same reservation. To work with a different partner, create a new reservation.

Choose Method to Connect

Choose a method to connect to a Cloud instance:

Tip

You must check SSH Keys when creating an instance for SSH option.

Connect via One-Click

Connect to a Cloud instance using One-Click connection. Your instance launches in a browser.

Note

You are not required to add an SSH key using this method.

Click Request.

See next section.

Launch instance

  1. Navigate to Cloud Instances tab.

  2. Wait until your instance State shows Ready.

  3. Click on the instance name. Then choose a method to access.

    1. Click Connect for One-Click access.

      Note

      This action launches your Cloud instance in a browser. See also the note regarding operating system.

    2. In Details tab, click on How to Connect via SSH. Follow instructions.

File Transfer Methods

Choose your operating system and follow commands for upload/download, or file transfers.

  1. To upload, select the Upload Files` icon in the upper left. Follow instructions.

  2. To download, right-click on the file. In the pop-up menu, select Download