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Use Equinix Metal with Juju
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Juju already has knowledge of the Equinix Metal cloud, which means adding your Equinix Metal account to Juju is quick and easy.

More specific information on Juju's Equinix Metal support (e.g. the supported regions) can be seen locally or, since v.2.9.0, remotely (on a live cloud). Here, we'll show how to do it locally (client cache):

juju show-cloud --local equinix

[note] In versions prior to v.2.9.0 the show-cloud command only operates locally (there is no --local option). [/note]

To ensure that Juju's information is up to date (e.g. new region support), you can update Juju's public cloud data by running:

juju update-public-clouds

Adding credentials

The Cloud credentials page offers a full treatment of credential management.

Using Juju's interactive authentication, importing Equinix Metal credentials into Juju is a simple process. The only information you'll need is your Equinix Metal API Key and Project ID:

  • api-token The API Key used for access to the Equinix Metal API. You can create a new Personal API Key at https://console.equinix.com/users/me/api-keys.
  • project-id The Equinix Metal project identifier. You can view this in the Equinix Metal console on the Project Settings tab, as shown in the following image:

Equinix Metal console showing project id

Credentials can now be added by running the following command:

juju add-credential equinix

The first question will ask for an arbitrary credential name, which you choose for yourself. This will be how you remember and refer to this Equinix Metal credential in Juju. The second question will ask you to select an 'Auth Type', with the options being either access-key or userpass.

Enter access-key as the authentication type and then enter your API Key and Project ID as described above.

You can now start using Juju with your Equinix Metal project.

Creating a controller

You are now ready to create a Juju controller for cloud 'equinix':

juju bootstrap equinix/am equinix-controller

Above, the name given to the new controller is 'equinix-controller'. Equinix Metal will provision an instance to run the controller on.

The controller will now be visible in the Equinix Metal console:

bootstrap machine 0 in Equinix Metal console

For a detailed explanation and examples of the bootstrap command see the Creating a controller page.

Next steps

A controller is created with two models - the 'controller' model, which should be reserved for Juju's internal operations, and a model named 'default', which can be used for deploying user workloads.

See these pages for ideas on what to do next:

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