Huawei Cloud Yunyao Cloud Server L instance evaluation | Purchase and usage experience of Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

1. Introduction to Yunyao Cloud Server L Instance

1.1 Introduction to Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

• Official website address: Huawei Cloud Yaoyun Server L instance

Yunyao Cloud Server L instance is a new generation of out-of-the-box lightweight application cloud server built for small and medium-sized enterprises and developers. Yunyao Cloud Server L instances provide rich and carefully selected application images, enabling one-click deployment of applications, helping customers to conveniently and efficiently build e-commerce websites, Web applications, applets, learning environments, various development tests, etc. in the cloud.

1.2 Features of Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

• Intelligent and non-stuck: Huawei Cloud Qingtian architecture supports software and hardware collaboration combined with AI algorithm intelligent scheduling to provide you with high-quality performance. Huawei Cloud has a global storage and computing network with data transmission latency shorter than the blink of an eye, meeting the high requirements of low network latency scenarios such as games and audio and video.

• Excellent price, easy to use: super cost-effective, ultra-low threshold, open to use as you like. Multiple instance specifications to balance performance and cost. Technology upgrades optimize cloud costs and benefit more start-ups and developers.

• It’s easier to get started: order multiple images and resource combinations with one click. A variety of high-quality images have been carefully selected and rigorously tested by Huawei Cloud officials. They cover seven major scenarios and have preset templates, which are quick to build, safe and trustworthy. Automated orchestration, one-click activation of resources, and business online in minutes. Smooth learning curve, wizard-based application construction, and easy application activation.

• Management is more worry-free: topology, resources, and mirroring are managed visually, and business architecture is transparently managed. Intimate service status reminders, one-click resource renewal and withdrawal, and simplified management. Real-time monitoring of resource load, security, and usage ensures that services are always online. A wide range of optional security services are available, including extensive backup, host security and other services, providing the highest level of security protection.

1.3 Usage scenarios of Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

• E-commerce store management: quickly build an independent foreign trade station and store management environment to provide stable and high-quality services to customers at home and abroad.
• Website building: Provides commonly used website building application templates to quickly build websites that meet business needs, such as corporate official websites, information, blogs, forums, e-commerce, etc.
• Mini program backend: Suitable for building WeChat mini programs and public account backend services to reduce maintenance costs and allow users to focus on business development.
• Small games: Help customers build PC stand-alone games, casual games, etc., quickly go online and have stable performance.
• Development and testing: Suitable for building ready-to-use remote development and testing projects in the cloud, running scheduled tasks, automatic tasks, etc.
• Cloud learning: Help students and developers do some experiments, papers, etc. in the cloud.
• Build blogs/forums: It is convenient for individual developers to build blogs and forums, and it is cost-effective.

2. Images supported by Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

2.1 Image type

The images supported by Yunyao Cloud Server L instance include system images and application images.

• System image
  The system image of Yunyao Cloud Server L instance only contains the operating system itself and does not include any application data and environment configuration. After using a system image to create a cloud server, a pure operating system environment will appear on the server. Therefore, users need to install applications by themselves based on the business needs of the instance.

• Application image
  The application image of Yunyao Cloud Server L instance includes the application, related initialization data, the operating environment and operating system required by the application. Using preset applications, you can skip uploading and installation steps and put them into use directly. You can also customize application configurations according to business needs to better meet actual needs.

2.2 System image

• Huawei Cloud EulerOS: Huawei Cloud EulerOS (HCE OS for short) is a Linux operating system built on Huawei's open source community openEuler. It provides a cloud-native, high-performance, secure and stable execution environment to develop and run applications, helping enterprise customers quickly migrate to the cloud. and developer innovation.

• CentOS: CentOS is a popular open source Linux distribution that is recompiled from the RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) source code.

• Ubuntu: Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions. It is an open source free software based on the Debian Linux operating system. Its ease of use and stability are excellent, and it has very powerful and mature community resources.

• Windows Server: Windows Server is a series of operating systems created by Microsoft specifically for servers.

2.3 Application image

Huawei Cloud Yaoyun Server L instance currently supports the following 10 application images. The current version does not support image switching after purchase. You can only unsubscribe before purchasing. Please choose carefully according to your own needs.

• Enterprise website building system WordPress
• Linux visual pagoda panel
• Enterprise integrated ERP system Odoo
• E-commerce system PrestaShop
• Data exploration and visualization platform Superset
• Docker visual running environment Portainer
• Enterprise cloud disk system Nextcloud
• One-stop DevOps platform GitLab
• Network statistical analysis platform Matomo
• Network statistical analysis platform Matomo

3. Process of purchasing Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

3.1 Log in to Huawei Cloud

Enter the Huawei Cloud official website: https://activity.huaweicloud.com/
Log in to your Huawei Cloud account and enter the Huawei Cloud homepage.

3.2 Enter the purchase page

In the search box, search for "Yunyao Cloud Server L Instance".

Click the console to enter the purchase page of Yunyao Cloud Server L instance.

3.3 Purchase Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

Click to purchase resources and select "Purchase Yunyao Cloud Server L Instance".

On the purchase order page, purchase according to the following configuration:
Region: North China-Beijing IV;
Application Image: Docker Visualization-Portainer;
Instance specifications: 2 cores 2G/system disk 40G/peak bandwidth 3Mbps/traffic package 400G;
instance name: You can customize it, edit it here as HECS-L-Portainer;
purchase duration: 1 month;
the rest can be configured by default.

Click Purchase to enter the order confirmation page and complete the payment. Since it has been purchased before, for demonstration purposes, the instance name is changed to HECS-L-Portainer01.

3.4 Check the status of Yunyao Cloud server

After placing the order and purchasing, enter the resource list page of Yunyao Cloud Server. When the status shows "Running", it means that the Yunyao Cloud Server L instance is started and running normally.

4. Remotely connect to Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

4.1 Reset server password

• Click "Remote Login" to enter the remote connection management page of Huawei Cloud.

• Click the reset password option on the right, which requires identity verification. After selecting mobile phone verification, the password can be reset successfully.

• Reset the password, fill in the password information, and restart the server.

4.2 Remotely connect to Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

Use the Huawei Cloud web version shell tool CloudShell, enter the server account information you just set, and log in.

4.3 Use Xshell to connect to Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

Use Xshell to connect to Yunyao Cloud Server L instance and set the name and elastic public IP address.

Click "Connect" and enter your username and password.

Successfully connected to Yunyao Cloud Server L instance.

4.4 Check the current operating system version

Check the current operating system version. When the Huawei Cloud Yaoyun Server L instance uses the portainer application image, the operating system is Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS.

root@hcss-ecs-f91c:~# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
VERSION="22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy

4.5 Check the current Docker environment

Check the Docker version, the current version is 24.0.4.

root@hcss-ecs-f91c:~# docker -v
Docker version 24.0.4, build 3713ee1

Check the current Docker service status to ensure that the Docker service is running normally.

root@hcss-ecs-f91c:~# systemctl status docker
● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2023-09-18 19:44:56 CST; 2 days ago
TriggeredBy: ● docker.socket
       Docs: https://docs.docker.com
   Main PID: 1104 (dockerd)
      Tasks: 42
     Memory: 89.4M
        CPU: 1min 18.123s
     CGroup: /system.slice/docker.service

5. Basic management of Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

5.1 Enter the overview page

Entering the overview page of the Yunyao Cloud Server L instance will display resource overview, traffic packet information, network information, server operations, mirroring information, etc.

5.2 Check the details of Yunyao Cloud Server

Enter the Yunyao server details page, and you can see modules such as overview, domain name, security group, cloud disk, and network card.

Domain name: When you want to access your website through a domain name on the Internet, you can add a resolution record to the domain name through Huawei Cloud's cloud resolution service.

On the security group management page, when deploying an application, you need to release the corresponding port on the security group.

You can view the cloud disk details of Yunyao Cloud Server L instance.

You can view the network card details of the Yunyao Cloud Server L instance.

5.3 View cloud disk monitoring data

Click on the monitoring data of the cloud disk EVS to see the monitoring information of various data of the cloud disk.

5.4 Shutdown and restart operations

Enter the Huawei Cloud server console and you can see the purchased Yunyao Cloud Server L instance in the cloud server list. In the more options, you can shut down and restart it.

5.5 Password reset operation

Click More Options to reset the password for the Yunyao Cloud Server L instance.

5.6 System reinstallation and backup

Click More - Mirror/Backup to reinstall the system, create a mirror, and create a cloud server for the Yunyao Cloud Server L instance. Create cloud disk backup, etc.

5.7 Network settings

You can perform network settings on the Yunyao Cloud Server L instance, with functions such as changing security groups, joining security groups, moving out of security groups, configuring security group rules, unbinding elastic public IPs, modifying bandwidth, switching VPCs, etc.

5.8 Expiration renewal function

You can renew the Yunyao cloud server. There are three setting options: automatic renewal, immediate transfer on demand, and expiration on demand.

5.9 Change settings

There are three types of changes: changing specifications, adding disks, and deleting cloud disks.

6. Cloud monitoring service

6.1 Enter the cloud monitoring management page

In the service list, click the cloud monitoring service CES to enter the cloud monitoring management page.

6.2 View monitoring overview

To view the overall monitoring situation, you can see monitored resource overview, alarm statistics, host monitoring, network monitoring, storage monitoring and other modules.

6.3 View basic monitoring of cloud servers

Host Monitoring - Elastic Cloud Server - Monitoring Indicators - Basic Monitoring, you can see the basic situation of the Yunyao Cloud Server L instance system.

6.4 Security group and DNS configuration

Before installing the Agent, please ensure that the DNS and security group are configured correctly, and the security group allows port 80/53/443 in the outbound direction.

Configure DNS and modify the configuration file /etc/resolv.conf as follows:

nameserver 100.125.1.250
nameserver 100.125.21.250
options timeout:1 single-request-reopen

6.5 Operating system monitoring

Click "Learn to install plug-ins" and follow the prompts to install the plug-ins.

On the Yunyao Cloud Server L instance, install the plug-in with one click. When the feedback is successful as shown below, wait 3-5 minutes for the plug-in to collect monitoring data normally.

cd /usr/local && curl -k -O https://obs.cn-north-4.myhuaweicloud.com/uniagent-cn-north-4/script/agent_install.sh && bash agent_install.sh

6.6 Process monitoring

Click "Learn to install plug-ins" and follow the prompts to install the plug-ins.

On the Yunyao Cloud Server L instance, install the plug-in with one click. When the feedback is successful as shown below, wait 3-5 minutes for the plug-in to collect monitoring data normally.

cd /usr/local && curl -k -O https://obs.cn-north-4.myhuaweicloud.com/uniagent-cn-north-4/script/agent_install.sh && bash agent_install.sh

Turn on process monitoring.

Check the process monitoring status of Yunyao Cloud Server L instance.

7. Usage and summary of Yunyao Cloud Server L instance

The overall experience of Huawei Cloud Yaoyun Server L instance is very good, with smooth operation, stable network connection, strong performance, and high cost performance. It can meet the different needs of enterprise and individual users and is recommended.

• Shortcomings and optimization:

Yunyao Cloud Server also has shortcomings, such as the inability to switch images after purchase, which is inconvenient for daily use; there are not enough system images and application images to meet more usage scenarios; there is still room for beautification of the management page, etc.

• Advantages and Highlights

Yunyao Cloud Server L instance has many advantages: First of all, the purchase process of Yunyao Cloud Server L instance is very simple. You only need to select the image and instance specifications you need, and click to purchase. Compared with the cumbersome configuration and purchase of other cloud servers The process greatly saves time and is very consumer-friendly. Secondly, the management is convenient and the concise management page is completely sufficient for daily management of cloud servers. It is friendly and easy for novices to use and saves learning costs. Finally, Yunyao Cloud Server L instance is an excellent cloud server product that can meet our daily learning environment and become a good helper for our technological growth!