How to specify additional available parameters for creating a new customer

How to specify additional available parameters for creating a new customer

Task

Specify additional available parameters for creating a new customer.

Solution

If you need to set certain additional parameters when creating a new customer, please refer to the list below.

Parameters
Description
Example
use_ca_floating_ip
option to use a floating IP for Cloud Agents
true

cloud_agent_flavor_requirements
Cloud Agent flavor requirements like disk size (Gb), CPU, RAM
{"hdd": "20", "cpu": "1", "ram": "2"}

cloud_agent_flavor
indicate the name of the Cloud Agent flavor to run with
"m1.medium"  

cloud_agent_image_name
used if any custom Cloud Agent image is required
"Hystax"

cloud_agent_volume_type
indicate a type of the Cloud Agent volume to be used in the target cloud
"ssd"


cloud_agent_network
network name to be used for Cloud Agents
"provider"


security_group
name or ID of a security group to be used for failover machines
"default" or "a19d5278-fc04-4c5c-a8fb-ddc987dacbe4"

availability_zone
name of an availability zone to be used for failover machines
"az-1"
failover_volume_type
indicate a type of volume that the failover machine will be created with 
"ssd"
cloud_agent_security_group
name of a security group to be used for creating a Cloud Agent with

"default"


Please note that parameters are specified in json format, e.g. {“use_ca_floating_ip”: true}






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