Managing Your Instance
This guide covers the various actions you can take to manage your running instances in the Tibus Cloud portal.
Instance Actions
From the instance details page, you can perform several management actions:
Power Management
- Start: Power on a stopped instance
- Stop: Gracefully shut down a running instance
- Reboot: Two options available:
- Soft reboot: Graceful OS-level restart
- Hard reboot: Force restart (like pressing the power button)
Instance Modifications
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Rebuild: Reinstall the operating system while maintaining the same configuration
- Useful for resetting an instance to its initial state
- All data will be erased, so backup important files first
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Resize: Change the instance's resources
- Upgrade or downgrade CPU, RAM, and storage
- Instance will need to be stopped during resize
- Some flavours may have restrictions on resizing
Backup and Recovery
- Create Snapshot: Create a point-in-time backup
- Captures the entire instance state
- Can be used to create new instances
- Useful before making major changes
Instance Removal
- Delete: Permanently remove the instance
- All data will be lost
- Associated resources (floating IPs, volumes) may also be affected
- Cannot be undone
Volume Management
Manage your instance's storage:
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Attach Volumes: Add additional storage to your instance
- Can attach multiple volumes
- Volumes can be different sizes and types
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Extend Volumes: Increase existing volume size
- Root volume can be extended
- May require OS-level commands to utilize new space
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Volume Snapshots: Create backups of specific volumes
- Independent of instance snapshots
- Can be used to create new volumes