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Console Guide

Navigate the Fugoku Cloud dashboard and manage your infrastructure

Console Guide

The Fugoku Cloud Console is your web-based control panel for managing compute, storage, networking, and billing.

Access the console at: console.fugoku.com

Dashboard Overview

After logging in, you land on the main dashboard with:

  • Resource Summary: Quick stats on instances, volumes, networks
  • Usage Graph: Current month's spending by service
  • Recent Activity: Last 10 actions (creates, deletes, config changes)
  • Alerts: Notifications about system issues or billing
  • Quick Actions: One-click shortcuts to common tasks

Resource Summary Cards

┌─────────────────┐  ┌─────────────────┐  ┌─────────────────┐
│   Compute       │  │   Storage       │  │   Networking    │
│   5 instances   │  │   280 GB        │  │   2 networks    │
│   $47.20/mo     │  │   $14.00/mo     │  │   $5.00/mo      │
└─────────────────┘  └─────────────────┘  └─────────────────┘

Click any card to jump to that service.

  • Dashboard - Overview and quick stats
  • Compute - Instances, images, SSH keys
  • Storage - Block volumes, snapshots, backups
  • Networking - Private networks, floating IPs, load balancers, firewalls
  • AI & ML - GPU instances, ML environments, model serving
  • Account - Billing, API keys, team members, settings

Top Bar

  • Search - Find instances, volumes, IPs by name or ID
  • Notifications - System alerts and updates
  • Region Selector - Switch active region
  • Account Menu - Profile, settings, logout

Compute Management

Navigate to Compute → Instances to manage your VMs.

Instances List View

Columns displayed:

  • Name - Instance identifier
  • Status - Running, stopped, provisioning, error
  • Plan - CPU/RAM configuration
  • IP Address - Primary public or private IP
  • Region - Data center location
  • Age - Time since creation
  • Actions - Quick controls (reboot, stop, delete)

Sorting: Click column headers to sort

Filtering:

  • Status: Show only running/stopped
  • Region: Filter by data center
  • Plan: Filter by instance size
  • Tags: Filter by custom tags

Bulk Actions: Select multiple instances to:

  • Start/stop in batch
  • Delete multiple
  • Add to network
  • Apply firewall rules

Instance Detail Page

Click an instance name to view:

Overview Tab:

  • Status and uptime
  • IP addresses (public and private)
  • Plan details (vCPU, RAM, disk)
  • Operating system and image
  • SSH connection command
  • Cost (current month)

Metrics Tab:

  • CPU usage (%, graph)
  • RAM usage (GB, graph)
  • Disk I/O (MB/s, graph)
  • Network bandwidth (Mbps, graph)
  • Time ranges: 1h, 6h, 24h, 7d, 30d

Console Tab: Browser-based VNC console for emergency access when SSH is unavailable.

┌──────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Instance Console (VNC)              │
│  ┌────────────────────────────────┐  │
│  │ Ubuntu 22.04 LTS               │  │
│  │ srv-8x4k9m2n login:            │  │
│  │                                │  │
│  └────────────────────────────────┘  │
│  [Send Ctrl+Alt+Del] [Fullscreen]   │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘

Snapshots Tab:

  • View snapshot history
  • Create manual snapshot
  • Restore from snapshot
  • Configure automatic backups

Networking Tab:

  • Attached networks (public and private)
  • Firewall rules
  • Assign floating IP
  • Edit security groups

Resize Tab: Change instance size (requires reboot):

  1. Select new plan
  2. Confirm changes
  3. Instance reboots with new resources

Actions Menu:

  • Start/Stop/Reboot
  • Rebuild (reinstall OS)
  • Rename
  • Add tags
  • Transfer to another project
  • Delete

Creating an Instance

Click Create Instance button:

Step 1: Choose Region Select data center closest to your users:

  • lagos-1 (Lagos, Nigeria)
  • london-1 (London, UK)
  • frankfurt-1 (Frankfurt, Germany)

Step 2: Select Image

Categories:

  • Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Rocky, Fedora, Alpine
  • Applications: WordPress, Ghost, Jitsi, Nextcloud
  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
  • ML/AI: PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA base images
  • Custom: Your uploaded images

Step 3: Choose Plan

Plans grouped by category:

  • Standard: Balanced CPU/RAM for general workloads
  • CPU-Optimized: High CPU for compute-intensive tasks
  • RAM-Optimized: High memory for databases and caching
  • GPU: NVIDIA H100/A100 for AI/ML

Example standard plans:

standard-1:  1 vCPU,  2 GB RAM,  50 GB SSD → $5/mo
standard-2:  2 vCPU,  4 GB RAM,  80 GB SSD → $12/mo
standard-4:  4 vCPU,  8 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD → $24/mo
standard-8:  8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 320 GB SSD → $48/mo

Step 4: Configuration

  • Name: Unique identifier (e.g., production-api-1)
  • Hostname: DNS hostname (optional, defaults to name)
  • SSH Keys: Select keys for root access
  • User Data: Cloud-init script for automated setup
  • Tags: Organize resources (env:production, team:backend)
  • Private Networking: Attach to existing networks
  • Backups: Enable automatic snapshots

Step 5: Review & Create

Summary shows:

  • Configuration details
  • Estimated monthly cost
  • Hourly rate

Click Create Instance - provisioning takes 30-90 seconds.

Storage Management

Navigate to Storage → Volumes for block storage.

Volumes List

Each volume shows:

  • Name and ID
  • Size (GB)
  • Attached instance (if any)
  • Region
  • Status (available, in-use, creating)

Creating a Volume

  1. Click Create Volume
  2. Configure:
    • Size: 10 GB - 10 TB
    • Region: Must match instance
    • Name: Identifier
    • Snapshot: Clone from existing (optional)
  3. Click Create

Attaching Volumes

From volume detail page:

  1. Click Attach to Instance
  2. Select target instance
  3. Volume appears as /dev/vdb (or next available)

From instance detail page:

  1. Go to Storage tab
  2. Click Attach Volume
  3. Select volume from dropdown

After attaching, format and mount:

# SSH into instance
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/vdb
sudo mkdir /mnt/data
sudo mount /dev/vdb /mnt/data
echo '/dev/vdb /mnt/data ext4 defaults 0 2' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab

Snapshots

Manual snapshot:

  1. Go to volume detail page
  2. Click Create Snapshot
  3. Name snapshot
  4. Wait for completion (1-5 min depending on size)

Automatic snapshots:

  1. Volume detail → Snapshots tab
  2. Toggle Automatic Snapshots
  3. Configure:
    • Frequency: hourly, daily, weekly
    • Retention: 1-365 days
    • Time window: preferred hours

Restore from snapshot:

  1. Snapshot detail page → Restore
  2. Choose: restore to original volume or create new
  3. Confirm

Networking Management

Navigate to Networking for network resources.

Private Networks

Isolate backend services on VLANs.

Create network:

  1. Click Create Network
  2. Configure:
    • Name: backend-net
    • Subnet: 10.10.0.0/24 (RFC1918 range)
    • Region: lagos-1
    • DHCP: Enable auto IP assignment
  3. Click Create

Attach instances:

  • Method 1: Instance detail → Networking → Attach Network
  • Method 2: Network detail → Attached Instances → Add

Floating IPs

Static public IPs that can move between instances.

Create floating IP:

  1. Networking → Floating IPs
  2. Click Reserve IP
  3. Select region
  4. IP assigned from pool

Assign to instance:

  1. Floating IP detail → Assign
  2. Select instance
  3. IP active in 5-10 seconds

Reassign for failover:

  1. Unassign from current instance
  2. Assign to new instance
  3. Zero downtime if using keepalived or similar

Load Balancers

Distribute traffic across multiple instances.

Create load balancer:

  1. Networking → Load Balancers
  2. Click Create Load Balancer
  3. Configure:
    • Name: api-lb
    • Region: lagos-1
    • Algorithm: Round Robin, Least Connections, IP Hash
    • Protocol: HTTP, HTTPS, TCP
    • Port: Frontend and backend ports
    • Health Check: Interval, timeout, unhealthy threshold

Add backends:

  1. LB detail → Backends tab
  2. Click Add Backend
  3. Select instance
  4. Set weight (for weighted round robin)

SSL/TLS:

  1. Certificates tab
  2. Upload certificate and private key
  3. Enable HTTPS listener

Firewalls

Control inbound/outbound traffic.

Default rules: Every instance has default security group:

  • Allow SSH (22) from anywhere
  • Allow all outbound
  • Deny all other inbound

Add custom rule:

  1. Instance detail → Networking tab
  2. Click Edit Firewall
  3. Click Add Rule
  4. Configure:
    • Direction: Inbound/Outbound
    • Protocol: TCP, UDP, ICMP, or ALL
    • Port Range: Single or range (e.g., 80-443)
    • Source/Dest: IP/CIDR or security group
  5. Click Save

Example: Web server rules

Inbound:
  TCP 22 from 0.0.0.0/0        # SSH
  TCP 80 from 0.0.0.0/0        # HTTP
  TCP 443 from 0.0.0.0/0       # HTTPS
  
Outbound:
  ALL to 0.0.0.0/0             # Allow all

AI & ML Section

Navigate to AI & ML for GPU compute and ML tools.

GPU Instances

Create GPU instance: Same flow as regular instance, but select GPU plan:

gpu-a100:  1x A100 (40GB), 12 vCPU, 64 GB RAM → $2.50/hr
gpu-h100:  1x H100 (80GB), 16 vCPU, 128 GB RAM → $4.00/hr

Pre-configured with:

  • CUDA 12.x
  • cuDNN
  • NVIDIA drivers

ML Environments

One-click deployments:

  • Jupyter Lab with PyTorch
  • TensorFlow training environment
  • MLflow tracking server
  • Ray cluster for distributed training

Click environment → Configure → Deploy

Model Serving

Deploy trained model:

  1. Upload model files to volume
  2. Create serving instance
  3. Configure inference API
  4. Auto-scaling rules

See Model Deployment for details.

Account Management

Navigate to Account for billing and settings.

Billing

Overview:

  • Current balance
  • Month-to-date spending
  • Payment method on file

Usage: Breakdown by service:

  • Compute: $47.20
  • Storage: $14.00
  • Networking: $5.00
  • GPU: $120.00
  • Total: $186.20

Invoices: Download past invoices (PDF or CSV).

Payment Methods: Add or remove cards, set default.

Spending Limit: Set maximum monthly spend - instances auto-stop if exceeded (optional safety feature).

API Credentials

Create token:

  1. Account → API Credentials
  2. Click Create Token
  3. Name token
  4. Set permissions (read-only or full access)
  5. Copy token (shown once)

Token management:

  • View last used time
  • Rotate tokens
  • Revoke access

Team Members

Invite collaborators:

  1. Account → Team
  2. Click Invite Member
  3. Enter email
  4. Set role: Admin, Developer, Billing, Read-Only
  5. Member receives invitation email

Settings

  • Profile: Update name, email, password
  • Notifications: Email preferences for alerts
  • Two-Factor Auth: Enable 2FA for security
  • SSH Keys: Upload public keys for instance access
  • Preferences: Timezone, date format, default region

Search & Filters

Global search (top bar): Type to find:

  • Instances by name or IP
  • Volumes by name
  • Networks by subnet
  • Any resource by ID

Advanced filters: Each resource list supports:

  • Multiple criteria (AND logic)
  • Saved filter presets
  • Export to CSV

Examples:

Instances:
  Status = running AND
  Region = lagos-1 AND
  Tags contains env:production

Volumes:
  Size > 100 GB AND
  Attached = false

Keyboard Shortcuts

Press ? in Console to view shortcuts:

g d    Go to Dashboard
g i    Go to Instances
g v    Go to Volumes
g n    Go to Networking
c i    Create Instance
/      Focus search
Esc    Close modal

Mobile Console

The Console is responsive and works on mobile/tablet:

  • Simplified navigation
  • Touch-friendly controls
  • View metrics and status
  • Emergency actions (reboot, stop)
  • Full management still recommended from desktop

Tips & Best Practices

Organize with tags:

env:production, env:staging, env:dev
team:backend, team:frontend
project:ecommerce, project:analytics
cost-center:engineering, cost-center:marketing

Use projects: Separate billing and resources by project (feature coming Q2 2026).

Set up monitoring: Configure alert rules before issues occur:

  • CPU >80% for 5 minutes
  • Disk >90% full
  • Instance unreachable

Regular backups: Enable automatic snapshots for critical instances.

Security:

  • Use private networks for inter-service communication
  • Restrict SSH to your IP range
  • Enable 2FA on your account
  • Rotate API tokens quarterly

Troubleshooting

Console won't load:

Can't create instance:

  • Verify payment method is valid
  • Check account spending limit
  • Ensure region has capacity

Metrics not showing: Metrics populate after 5-10 minutes of instance runtime.

Getting Help

In-console help:

  • Click ? icon for contextual help
  • Hover tooltips on complex fields
  • Inline documentation links

Support channels:

Next Steps:

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On this page

Console Guide
Dashboard Overview
Resource Summary Cards
Navigation Structure
Main Menu (Left Sidebar)
Top Bar
Compute Management
Instances List View
Instance Detail Page
Creating an Instance
Storage Management
Volumes List
Creating a Volume
Attaching Volumes
Snapshots
Networking Management
Private Networks
Floating IPs
Load Balancers
Firewalls
AI & ML Section
GPU Instances
ML Environments
Model Serving
Account Management
Billing
API Credentials
Team Members
Settings
Search & Filters
Keyboard Shortcuts
Mobile Console
Tips & Best Practices
Troubleshooting
Getting Help