Tagging Nodes for Server Provisioning

Cloud Infrastructure Automation uses tags to detect nodes that are appropriate for provisioning specific servers. The tag assignment mechanism is based on two objects: templates and nodes. This mechanism works as follows:

1. You register a node in the Cloud Infrastructure and set tags for it. If necessary, you can also configure the tags of an already registered node.

2. Then, you set up a template and assign to it the same tags as the ones, assigned to the node.

   Note: To set tags for a template, these tags must be already assigned to at least one node, registered in the Cloud Infrastructure.

3. You create a virtual server on the basis of the template you set up in the step 2.
4. The system checks the tags of the template and all available nodes. If the tags of the template match those of a node, the virtual server is created on this node.

The next two sections describe the process of setting tags for templates and nodes.