Servers in a VPN - SSH access? about mist-ce HOT 1 OPEN

Hi Jaykah,

if you setup your own instance of mist.io inside the VPN, this will be the machine that probes the nodes. So if it can reach them, it will be able to establish ssh connections as well.

Regarding the ability to provide the network while deploying nodes, it is something we are looking at. We only recently added Azure support and it is not fully featured yet. We do have however on our short term schedule the listing of networks, plus the ability to specify the network name, and deploy the VMs there.

If you are in the mood of contributing, please have a look at files src/mist/io/views.py and methods.py

On create_machine (view.py) you would specify the network id. Then on _create_machine_azure (methods.py) you'll also pass this id. The last function calls create_node on src/libcloud/libcloud/compute/drivers/azure.py (which is the driver for Azure). There you can pass the network id as ex_virtual_network=None on the function's arguments, and set ex_virtual_network instead of the last argument None, on AzureXmlSerializer.virtual_machine_deployment_to_xml. This is the place for the network to be specified, according to Azure API's documentation, on http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj157194.aspx. You would still need to specify the region (location on mist.io's terminology) if I understand well, because it is needed for the storage creation and some other things needed while deploying any Azure node.

You can give it a try, but as I've written this is already on our short term dev, so it will soon be implemented both on mist.io's backend and the UI.

Best regards,
Markos

from mist-ce.