alibaba-ai-installing.adoc

Process outline for creating a cluster with the {ai-full}

The main steps of the installation process are as follows:

1. Create the cluster with the {ai-full} and download the generated image.

2. Convert the image to QCOW2 format. For more information, see the following section.

3. Upload the image to the Object Storage Service bucket in {alibaba}.

4. Import the image to the Elastic Compute Service in {alibaba}.

5. Provision the {alibaba} resources:

   1. In the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) console, set the networking configurations.

   2. In the {alibaba} DNS console, define the Domain Name System.

   3. In the Elastic Compute Service (ECS) console, provision the compute instances.

6. Complete host discovery in the {ai-full}.

7. Complete the network configurations in {alibaba}.

8. Complete the cluster configuration and installation in the {ai-full}.