Cloud Portal: The Products Tab

To provision a new product, open your Portal's Products tab and click Add Product.

Figure 1 - Add Product

The New Product wizard will open and walk you through the following simple stages:

A. Plan
B. Billing
C. Customize
D. Summary

A. New Product: Plan

Use the Plan page to choose your product's cloud Provider, Region and Tier.

Figure 2 - Plan Provider Region & Tier

1. Cloud Provider
   Choose your cloud host. It can currently be one of three providers:
   Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

2. Region
   Select where your equipment would be physically located.

3. Tier
   You can raise a Free node, a Development node or a Production cluster.
   Learn more about them in the Tiers and Instances page.

B. New Product: Billing

Enter your billing details and click Next,
or click Later to evaluate the cloud service using a basic free product.

Figure 3 - New Product: Billing

C. New Product: Customize

Choose your product's display name and allowed IP addresses.

Figure 4 - New Product: Customize

The Display Name is simply the name that would appear in your Cloud Products tab.

• You can set Allowed IPs to 0.0.0.0/0, which would allow access from any location, or you can specify certain IPs or IP ranges.
• Be aware that you will not be able to access your instance from locations that are not specified in the allowed IPs list.
• You can edit the list at any time through the Portal.

• Regardless of the allowed IPs setting, your RavenDB Cloud instances will always require authentication using X509 certificates for access. The allowed IPs list serves as an additional layer of security, but isn't the only one.

  Azure products do not permit overlapping of addresses in the Allowed IPs list.
  If addresses in your list overlap, your product will not be created. E.g. -

  • Listing both 13.64.151.161/32 and 13.74.249.156/32 is not permitted.
  • Listing 0.0.0.0/0 and any other address is not permitted.
  • Listing both 51.140.148.192/27 and 13.74.249.156/32 is permitted.
    

D. New Product: Summary

The Summary stage shows you your choices and lets you edit them if you wish.

Figure 5 - New Product: Summary

When you finish defining your product, the cloud provisioning routine will show you your new product's status until it's ready to go.

Figure 6 - New Product: Provisioning

Figure 7 - New Product: Active

To modify an existing product, find it in the Products tab and click its Manage button.

Figure 8 - Manage Product: Manage Button

You can set it using its three tabs:

1. General
2. Security
3. Danger Zone

General: Change Instance Type and Storage

You can view your configuration and change your product's instance type and storage size here.

Figure 9 - Manage Product tab

• Change Instance Type
  Use sliders to set your desired configuration. This can be changed later as you need to scale to changing data processing needs.

Figure 10 - Manage Product: Scale

You can upscale or downscale only within the current product tier. The development-tier DEV30 configuration, for example, can upscale to Dev50, but not to the production-tier PB10 configuration.
Your databases and data will be automatically migrated into your new configuration.

• Change Storage
  Use this slider to modify your product's storage.

Figure 11 - Manage Product: Storage

You can allocate more disk space to your cluster (but not reduce it), and you can select Premium disks and the number of IOPS reserved for them.

Security: Your Certificate and Allowed IPs

Use the security tab to download your certificate or determine which addresses are allowed to connect your database instance.

Figure 12 - Manage Product: Security

• Download
  Click this button to download your certificate.
  Your product will communicate only with trusted sources. Install this certificate only on trusted machines.

• Edit
  Click this button to edit your product's list of Allowed IPs.

Figure 13 - Manage Product: Edit IPs

Danger Zone: Terminate your Instance

Use this tab's Terminate button to eliminate your cluster.

Figure 14 - Manage Product: Terminate