To effortlessly set up my own CentOS Elastic VPS inside the Cloud, log in to my CloudJiffy account and access environment topology wizard.

The appropriate instance (i.e. CentOS 6.8 or CentOS 7.2) can be found within the expandable options list upon enabling VPS block at the bottom left wizard corner (for the detailed installation guidance, refer to the VPS Configuration page).

CloudJiffy provides a set of inbuilt toolsfor applying some basic settings to your VPS instance right via dashboard UI. For more complicated configs, you’ll need to access it via SSH - this can be accomplished in one of the following ways:

• by means of CloudJiffy SSH Gate
• via any 3d-party software (i.e. external SSH client) using Public IP address
• through the embedded web-based SSH client
  
  

To get the most out of your CentOS virtual machine and apply configurations with the full root permissions, You’ll need to access it using SSH protocol. The easiest way to accomplish this is to establish a connection via CloudJiffy SSH Gate with the help of your terminal.

It allows to securely connect to entire CloudJiffy account and manage all your environments and containers via a single access point.

To navigate through the lists, just type the option index number and press Enter.

Once inside the required CentOS VPS container, you can start applying the necessary configurations as a root user.

To access your account via CloudJiffy SSH Gate, you need to preliminary perform the following steps:

• generate an SSH Keypair

• add your public SSH key to the dashboard
  
  

It is also possible to access your VPS container by means of any preferred SSH software via the attached Public IP address. In this case, the same root privileges are granted as whilst working via CloudJiffy SSH Gate.

To establish secure connection to the target container, launch the preferred SSH software (OpenSSH in our example).

Then initiate the connection using your server administration data, i.e. username and IP address, by executing the ssh {username}@{hostname} string (You’ve received this data via email beforehand).

Confirm your identity with the appropriate password and start working with your CentOS virtual machine as a root user.

One more way to operate your CentOS virtual private server is to connect to it by means of a special web-based SSH client. It operates yum dependencies manager to skillfully maintain packages within your server and is available right through the CloudJiffy dashboard.

1. Click on the Open in browser button next to the required CentOS container at the dashboard.

2. In the opened Console, confirm your identity by inserting the administrator password - it was sent to you via email upon environment setup (use the Copy and Paste buttons at the top panel).

 

Upon successful authentication, you can start applying the required configurations by means of executing the corresponding yum commands (e.g. yum install, yum remove, yum update, etc).