The document introduces the Cloud Portal GE, which provides a self-service portal for managing cloud resources. It allows users to manage their identity and organizations, create and access VMs, monitor VMs, deploy software to VMs, create and attach storage volumes, and work with PaaS regions, tiers and blueprints. The course lessons will cover main concepts, guidelines, a live tutorial and documentation links.

1. Self Service Interfaces - Cloud Portal GE
Lesson 1 - Introduction
Álvaro Alonso. UPM – DIT
Cloud Chapter. FIWARE
aalonsog@dit.upm.es, @larsonalonso

2. Contents
1. Why we need Cloud Portal GE
2. Cloud Portal functionalities
3. Course lessons

3. Why we need Cloud Portal GE

4. Cloud Portal
PaaS
SDC Monitoring
Account
Why we need Cloud Portal GE

5. Why we need Cloud Portal GE

6. • Account
– Managing your identity and organizations
• Compute
– Creating VMs and accessing them
• Monitoring
– Getting monitoring information from your VMs
• SDC
– Deploying Software in your VMs
• Storage
– Creating and attaching volumes
– Uploading objects to containers
• PaaS Manager
– Working with regions
– Creating Tiers and deploying Blueprints
• Network
– Working with Nets and Subnets
Cloud Portal functionalities

7. Course Lessons
• Contents
• Main concepts
• Guidelines
• Live tutorial
• Documentation

8. Documentation
• Cloud Portal GE
– http://catalogue.fiware.org/enablers/self-service-
interfaces-cloud-portal
• Source code
– https://github.com/ging/fiware-cloud-portal
• Documentation
– http://fiware-cloud-portal.readthedocs.org/

9. Self Service Interfaces - Cloud Portal GE
Lesson 1 - Introduction
Álvaro Alonso. UPM – DIT
Cloud Chapter. FIWARE
aalonsog@dit.upm.es, @larsonalonso