SSH Keys Overview When creating a Compute Instance, you will not receive a root password. Authentication is based on secure SSH keys instead of using passwords.SSH keys allow password-less authentication on secure shell (SSH) Connections. This guide shows how to configure and enable a SSH key on Windows, MacOS or Linux computers. Requirements You have […]

How to connect an additional volume manually on C1 instances Important: This documentation applies only to C1 Bare Metal compute instances. For the latest generation of Virtual Cloud Instances refer to the Block Storage Volumes documentation. This page shows how to connect an additional volume manually on C1 Bare Metal compute instances. Requirements You have an account and are logged […]

How to create an image from an instance and create a new server from this image This page shows how to create an image from an instance and create a new server from this image. Requirements You have an account and are logged into console Your SSH key is configured You have a running server You […]

This page shows how to create a new image from scratch. This process consists in building a root filesystem in an extra volume of one of your servers. The following procedure will create an Ubuntu based image from scratch. Requirements You have an account and are logged into console. You have configured your SSH Key You have […]

How to create an image with Docker This page shows how to create a new image with Docker. This process consists in building a root filesystem in an extra volume of one of your servers. Requirements You have an account and are logged into console. You have configured your SSH Key You have an additional volume attached […]

Overview This page shows how to create and connect to your first Scaleway compute instance. A compute instance is a computing unit, either virtual or physical that provides resources to run your applications on. After you’ve launched your compute instance, you can connect to it as root and use it as you wish. There are […]

How to deal with private and reserved IPs addresses This page shows you how to deal with private and reserved IPs addresses. Requirements You have an account and are logged into console. You have configured your SSH Key You have a running server Private IPs When you create and start server, your server get a private IP […]

WordPress InstantApp - Overview This page shows you how to spawn a WordPress application in seconds. Requirements You have an account and are logged into console The WordPress application comes with the following packages: WordPress is a popular, free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Working […]

Deploying web applications using Juju on Scaleway Important This provider is in “beta” and makes use of manual provisioning. Manual provisioning allows Juju users to implement any cloud provider’s API calls and act similar to a provider implemented in the Juju Core code base. You can access the provider source-code on github This package provides a CLI […]

How to use the GitLab repository manager This page shows you how to use the GitLab repository manager InstantApp on your Scaleway instance. Requirements You have an account and are logged into console. You have configured your SSH Key GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager with wiki and issue tracking features. GitLab includes git repository management, […]