InMotion Cloud Knowledge Base

Deploying Windows Server on InMotion Cloud

How to Set Up a Shared Drive in the Cloud and Connect from Windows

Set up a Samba file server on an InMotion Cloud Ubuntu instance and connect to it from Windows as a mapped network drive (like F:). Covers instance setup, security group rules, Samba configuration, the Windows drive-mapping flow, and troubleshooting.

OpenStack Features Available on InMotion Cloud

Understanding Disk Storage and Capacity Planning

What Operating Systems Do You Support?

How to Deploy Applications with Docker and Kubernetes

Package applications with Docker, run them on a k3s Kubernetes cluster, and turn a single-VM container deployment into a self-healing, scalable platform on InMotion Cloud. Covers the full path from Dockerfile to kubectl, plus when to graduate to multi-node Kubernetes.

How to Configure Servers with Ansible

Automate server setup on InMotion Cloud with Ansible. This guide walks through installing Ansible, building an inventory from OpenStack instances, and writing reusable playbooks for repeatable, idempotent deployments.

How to Create Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform

Learn how Terraform automates cloud infrastructure creation on InMotion Cloud. This guide walks through a real example that provisions a network, security group, and virtual machine with a single command.

How to Deploy a Kubernetes Cluster Using GitHub Actions on InMotion Cloud

Step-by-step guide to provisioning a Magnum Kubernetes cluster on InMotion Cloud using a pre-built GitHub Actions repository, with automatic HTTPS and WordPress or Drupal deployment.

How to Create Dev and QA Environments in the Cloud

How to Create QA Environments Using OpenStack Snapshots

Creating and Managing Volumes in OpenStack Horizon

Booting Instances from Volumes in OpenStack

Volume Snapshots vs Backups: What's the Difference?

Creating and Managing Volume Backups in OpenStack

Creating and Managing Volume Groups in OpenStack

Troubleshooting Network Connectivity in OpenStack

Setting Up a Private Network with Internet Access in OpenStack

Managing Ports in OpenStack Horizon

Allocating and Assigning Floating IPs in OpenStack

Managing Security Groups and Rules in OpenStack

Creating and Managing Routers in OpenStack Horizon

Creating and Managing Subnets in OpenStack Horizon

Creating and Managing Networks in OpenStack Horizon

Understanding OpenStack Networking Concepts in Horizon

Managing Running Instances - Start, Stop, and Reboot Operations

Editing Instance Properties and Metadata in OpenStack

Creating Instance Snapshots in OpenStack

Creating and Managing Images in OpenStack Horizon

Creating and Managing SSH Keypairs in OpenStack

Creating Server Groups for High Availability in OpenStack

Optimizing Instance Performance in OpenStack

Managing Instance Costs and Resource Quotas in OpenStack

Editing Image Properties and Metadata in OpenStack

Pause, Suspend, and Shelve: Understanding Instance States in OpenStack

Rebuilding Instances from Images in OpenStack

Rescuing Failed Instances in OpenStack

OpenStack Instance Troubleshooting Guide

Resizing OpenStack Instances: When and How

Importing Existing SSH Keys into OpenStack

Locking and Unlocking Instances in OpenStack

Converting Images to Volumes in OpenStack

Soft Affinity vs Hard Affinity: Choosing the Right Policy in OpenStack

Understanding Affinity and Anti-Affinity Policies in OpenStack

Managing Instance Network Interfaces in OpenStack

Security Best Practices for OpenStack Instances

Viewing and Analyzing Instance Logs in OpenStack

Understanding Instance Action History in OpenStack

Using the OpenStack Instance Console

Creating and Managing Support Tickets in InMotion Central

In this guide, you willll learn how to create and manage support tickets in InMotion Central. Support tickets allow you to contact the InMotion Cloud team for help with your cloud projects, billing questions, or account issues — all from within your Central dashboard.

How to Access the OpenStack Horizon Dashboard

In this guide, you will learn how to log into the OpenStack Horizon Dashboard for your InMotion Cloud Project. Horizon is the official graphical user interface (GUI) for OpenStack, offering a web-based console to manage all your cloud resources, including creating new instances, setting up load balancing, and configuring network topology.

How to Log into InMotion Central

In this guide, you’ll learn how to log into InMotion Central, the management interface where you can access your cloud projects, manage billing and invoices, and organize your team members. InMotion Central is the main place to manage your InMotion Cloud environment.