Quick Start
Creating an Elastic IP
You can create an Elastic IP through the Portal, the CLI or the API.
This is an example from the CLI:
$ exo compute elastic-ip create ...
# Create a manual Elastic IP
$ exo compute elastic-ip create --zone de-fra-1
✔ Creating Elastic IP... 3s
┼─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼
│ ELASTIC IP │ │
┼─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼
│ ID │ 5a5aed48-7a46-442a-8456-0a15d931fd0b │
│ IP Address │ 203.0.113.202 │
│ Description │ │
│ Zone │ de-fra-1 │
│ Type │ manual │
┼─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼
# Create a managed Elastic IP
$ exo compute elastic-ip create \
--zone de-fra-1 \
--healthcheck-interval 60 \
--healthcheck-mode tcp \
--healthcheck-port 80 \
--healthcheck-strikes-fail 5 \
--healthcheck-strikes-ok 5 \
--healthcheck-timeout 10
✔ Creating Elastic IP... 3s
┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼
│ ELASTIC IP │ │
┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼
│ ID │ 868d029d-b1a2-4fd3-9006-4b98998240b4 │
│ IP Address │ 203.0.113.203 │
│ Description │ │
│ Zone │ de-fra-1 │
│ Type │ managed │
│ Healthcheck Mode │ tcp │
│ Healthcheck Port │ 80 │
│ Healthcheck Interval │ 1m0s │
│ Healthcheck Timeout │ 10s │
│ Healthcheck Strikes OK │ 5 │
│ Healthcheck Strikes Fail │ 5 │
┼──────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼Note that in order to create a managed Elastic IP, you have to provide health check parameters. Without those parameters, the Elastic IP is created as manual management type.
Attaching an Elastic IP
Once the Elastic IP address as been created, you can attach it to one or more Compute instances. Here is another example from the CLI:
$ exo compute instance elastic-ip attach ...
$ exo compute instance elastic-ip attach my-instance 203.0.113.202
✔ Attaching Elastic IP "203.0.113.202" to instance "my-instance"... 3s
┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼
│ COMPUTE INSTANCE │ │
┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼
│ ID │ 0e713d4c-9f3f-4a9a-b958-b4571450d3a8 │
│ Name │ my-instance │
│ Creation Date │ 2019-03-08 15:07:14 +0000 UTC │
│ Instance Type │ standard.tiny │
│ Template │ Linux Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 64-bit │
│ Zone │ ch-gva-2 │
│ Anti-Affinity Groups │ n/a │
│ Security Groups │ default │
│ Private Networks │ n/a │
│ Elastic IPs │ 203.0.113.202 │
│ IP Address │ 203.0.113.20 │
│ IPv6 Address │ 2001:db8:e00:588:4fe:9cef:fe00:23f │
│ SSH Key │ admin │
│ Disk Size │ 10 GiB │
│ State │ running │
│ Labels │ n/a │
┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┼The Elastic IP is now routing traffic to my-instance.
After an Elastic IP is attached to an instance, a managed Elastic IP does not require explicitly configuring an extra network interface on the instance. However, a manual Elastic IP requires some further configuration.