Building the VM

Assuming you have followed the previous steps and checked that they worked, you should be ready to build the VM.

Getting an SSH Key

You will need an SSH Key to log in into your newly built VM. Good instructions of how to generate an SSH Key are provided by Github.

You do not need to add the key to your GitHub account! It is enough that it is on your machine. In the next step you will provide your public key, while building a VM.

If you are on Windows you may not have an SSH client installed. Try one of these options:

Creating a VM

  1. Log in to the BioExcel Portal again, if not already logged in.

  2. On the main Page (or Tools) you should be able to see ‘CWL Training’ item

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  3. Click CWL Training item to expand it.

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  4. Click Deploy “CWL Training” to BioExcel CWL Training button.

  5. The popup will show asking you for your public SSH key. Provide the entire contents of the file with your public key (default should be called id_rsa.pub. The key normally starts with ssh-rsa)

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  6. You will be taken to Deployments page:

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  7. Click the item with CWL VM environment.

  8. You will see that Status is STARTING and below “Deploying…”

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Verifying the VM

It can take up to 10 minutes for the VM to build (or deploy). By that time you should see something like this:

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If the status of your deployment has not changed to RUNNING, log out of the portal (link below Profile) and log in again, choose Deployments from the top menu and click the item with your deployment. If that does not help, please contact us at ecp@ebi.ac.uk