Create your first Avassa environment

tip

In order to be able to run through the steps of these tutorials in a live Avassa environment, sign up for a free trial and we will set you up with a running system.

Introduction

After a successful registration process you will have an account at the Avassa PaaS at cloud.avassa.io. The first thing you need to do is to create an "environment".

An environment gives you a dedicated instance of the Control Tower, the central management software, and a number of managed edge sites.

Create the environment

In the dialogue below, select "Create new" and "Free Trial". The free trial environment will set up four virtual edge sites with one host each and a Control Tower. This will let you run through the tutorial sections.

Once the environment is created you will see your environment name and a link to open the Control Tower user interface.

First Login

Click the "Open Control Tower" link to enter the Control Tower user interface.

Congratulations, you are now ready to start on the first tutorial!

To the left you see the main menu for the Control Tower and in the middle the list of edge sites including a link to the Control Tower itself.

If you already know that you would like to use a command line tool, read on to learn how to download it and set it up. If not, proceed directly to the next section that will walk you through how to deploy your first application

Avassa command line tool

Apart from the UI you can also interact with your environment using the supctl command. See the how-to instruction on how to install the supctl command line tool.

As a first example try listing the sites in your environment:

supctl list system sites

Should result in

- electric-cinema
- metrograph

By default results are returned in YAML format

You can use the -j flag to return JSON, so if you issue

supctl -j list system sites

you would get

[
  "electric-cinema",
  "metrograph"
]

Now you are ready to deploy your first application!