Provisioning Attributes
Unlike normal CloudBlue Commerce provisioning attributes that are used to define nodes where certain resources can be provisioned, the provisioning attributes in Cloud Infrastructure are used exclusively to distinguish between different kinds of resource types. Currently, Cloud Infrastructure provides two groups of provisioning attributes:
- attributes for distinguishing different states of a cloud server
- attributes for distinguishing different types of traffic
Attributes for Distinguishing Different Server States
The provisioning attributes used to distinguish between different states of a cloud server are listed in the table below:
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Provisioning Attribute |
Description |
|---|---|
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ci_running |
resource types taken into account when a cloud server is running. |
|
ci_stopped |
resource types taken into account when a cloud server is stopped. |
Some resource types (for example, the default CI VE disk usage resource type) are assigned both provisioning attributes because cloud servers use these resource types in both states: when they are running and when they are stopped.
Attributes for Distinguishing Different Types of Traffic
Cloud Infrastructure uses the following provisioning attributes to distinguish between different types of traffic:
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Provisioning Attribute |
Description |
|---|---|
|
ci_internal |
Use to denote internal traffic coming into or outgoing from servers. In this case, internal traffic means all traffic exchanged by servers on a customer's private network. |
|
ci_external |
Use to denote external traffic coming into or outgoing from servers. In this case, external traffic means all traffic exchanged by a server with servers outside a customer's private network. |
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ci_incoming |
Use to denote incoming traffic. Traffic can come into servers from a customer's private network or from outside the private network. |
|
ci_outgoing |
Use to denote outgoing traffic. Traffic can go out of servers to a customer's private network or outside the private network. |
Traffic resource types in Cloud Infrastructure have two provisioning attributes set: one from the ci_internal/ci_external pair and one from the ci_incoming/ci_outgoing pair.