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Cybera operates the Rapid Access Cloud, an OpenStack-based cloud providing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), which allows users to create and manage virtual servers in any configuration desired. The virtualized cloud environment supports supports several operating systems (e.g. Ubuntu, Windows) and makes it easy to scale up and down resources. It also offers object and volume storage, accommodating further use cases.
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"Instances" are another word to describe a virtual machine (VM) that runs in the Rapid Access Cloud. It is is provisioned with a set of specifications not unlike traditional bare-metal hardware, with processors, memory, and storage being the primary configurable elements. The Rapid Access Cloud utilizes "flavors" or – or pre-configured templates that – that determine the number of virtual CPU (vCPU), available memory (RAM), and disk space to determine the size of an instance.
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OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform for cloud computing, composed of interrelated components or and services. The two most heavily used OpenStack services in the Rapid Access Cloud are:
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Single Root Input/Output Virtualization or SRIOV SR-IOV is one of the key technologies that distinguishes Cybera VFS from the rest of the Rapid Access Cloud. SRIOV SR-IOV allows a physical network card to be virtualized and “passed-through” to the virtual machine, with much less overhead and better network performance than a traditional virtualized network card.
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Access to the Rapid Access Cloud is provided by third-partyparty Federated identity providers: Google Identity Platform and and Canadian Access Federation.
If you already have an existing Google account, proceed to creating a Rapid Access Cloud account atat rac-portal.cybera.ca and click Sign in using Google, otherwise create an account with Google atat accounts.google.com/SignUp.
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