Housekeeping
Machine Images
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'Housekeeping resources' in robustack means the managing resources in a way which are not related to any groupstack operations, such as deleting a resource regardless of its groupstack membership.
Any activities done through this housekeeping menus may cause incomplete groupstack structure if you don't care much.
(1) Click "Machine Images" in main menu.
Navigating
Machine Image Menus
(2) Select an machine image or a resource pool you'd like to navigate into.
You can see menu buttons which can be run at the current state of the image.
You can see all groupstack instances bound to this image if you click "GroupStack Members Bound" tab in sub view.
Bulk Deregistering Machine Images
Sometimes you need cleaning up unnecessary images, such as which are outdated and no instances will be created from any longer.
You can delete those images by selecting them among candidate list of images which are not bound to any groupstack instances.
(2) Select a resource pool you'd like to bulk deregister images from.
(3) Click "Deregister Images".
Produced list are for the images which no groupstack instances are configured to be created from.
(4) Select images to deregister and click "Confirm".
Deregistering
a Machine Image
You cannot deregister an image if it is configured to launch an instance from any groupstack configurations.
(2) Select a machine image you'd like to deregister.
(3) Click "Deregister Image" button.
Merge Machine Image to Robustack
'Merge' terminology in robustack is to bring Amazon EC2 resources which are usually created outside robustack into control.
And 'Demerge' is opposite meaning.
(2) Select a resource pool you'd like to merge a machine image from.
(3) Click "Merge Machine Image to Robustack".
Select a machine image to merge and enter 'Image Name' to use.
Select 'Image Type'.
Unfortunately, robustack can merge images which are created from very limited range of official images, such as 'Quick Start Image of AWS Console'. We cannot gurantee its full functioning even if the merge was successful.
(4) Click "Merge" button.
Now you can see the machine image at the machine image management view.
Demerge Machine Image from Robustack
'Merge' terminology in robustack is to bring Amazon EC2 resources which are usually created outside robustack into control.
And 'Demerge' is opposite meaning.
(2) Select a machine image you'd like to demerge.
(3) Click "Demerge from Robustack".
The machine image will now be out of robustack. But still you can see it thru other control channel, such as Amazon EC2 Console.
Housekeeping - Machine Images
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Housekeeping - Machine Images
Housekeeping - Machine Images. Robustack is an Amazon EC2 Orchestration Platform. This slides explains how you can manage machine images as non-groupstack members.
