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Getting started with Yandex BareMetal

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Updated at October 23, 2024

Note

Yandex BareMetal will be launched at the Preview stage in Q4 2024.

Lease your first physical server and connect to it. All the leased server's resources are exclusively yours, thus providing better performance than an equivalent virtual machine.

Getting started

Sign up for Yandex Cloud and create a billing account:

  1. Go to the management console and log in to Yandex Cloud or create an account if you do not have one yet.
  2. On the Yandex Cloud Billing page, make sure you have a billing account linked and it has the ACTIVE or TRIAL_ACTIVE status. If you do not have a billing account, create one.

If you have an active billing account, you can go to the cloud page to create or select a folder for your infrastructure to operate in.

Learn more about clouds and folders.

Lease a server

  1. In the management console, select the folder you want to lease a server in.

  2. In the list of services, select BareMetal.

  3. Click Order server.

  4. Select the ru-central1-m availability zone.

  5. Select the ru-central1-m3 pool.

  6. Under Configuration:

    1. Select the BA-i103-S-10G server configuration.

    2. Configure disk partitioning:

      1. Click Configure disk layout.
      2. Keep the default partitioning and click Save.

  7. Under Image, select the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS image.

  8. Under Lease conditions, specify:

    1. Number of servers: 1
    2. Lease duration: 1 month

  9. Under Network settings:

    1. Click Create a private subnet.
    2. Optionally, if you need to enable DHCP for automatic IP address assignment, do so in the Routing settings section.
    3. Enter bm-subnetwork for the subnet name and click Create subnet.
    4. In the Public address field, select Automatically.

  10. Under Access:

    1. Generate a password for the root user. To do this, click Generate next to the Password field.

    Warning

    Once you have ordered your server, you will no longer be able to view the password. Save the password to a secure location right away.

    1. In the Public SSH key field, paste the contents of the public key file. You need to create an SSH key pair yourself.

  11. Under Server information, enter the server Name: bm-server.

  12. Click Order server.

Connect to the server

  1. In the management console, select the folder the server belongs to.
  2. In the list of services, select BareMetal.
  3. In the row with the server you need, click and select Start KVM console.
  4. In the window that opens, click KVM console.

To establish a server connection, specify its public IP address which can be found in the management console, in the Public address field under Network settings on the server page.

In the terminal, run this command:

ssh root@<server_public_IP_address>

If this is your first time connecting to the server, you will get an unknown host warning:

The authenticity of host '51.250.83.243 (51.250.83.243)' can't be established.
ED25519 key fingerprint is SHA256:6Mjv93NJDCaf/vu3NYwiLQK4tKI+4cfLtkd********.
This key is not known by any other names.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])?

Type yes in the terminal and press Enter.

To establish a server connection, specify its public IP address which can be found in the management console, in the Public address field under Network settings on the server page.

Make sure that the Windows account has read privileges on the folder containing the keys.

To connect to the server, run the following command in the command line:

ssh root@<server_public_IP_address>

If this is your first time connecting to the server, you will get an unknown host warning:

The authenticity of host '89.169.132.223 (89.169.132.223)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:DfjfFB+in0q0MGi0HnqLNMdHssLfm1yRanB********.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])?

Type yes in the command line and press Enter.

To establish a server connection, specify its public IP address which can be found in the management console, in the Public address field under Network settings on the server page.

Establish a connection using the PuTTY app:

  1. Run the Pageant application.
    1. Right-click the pageant icon in the task bar.
    2. In the context menu, select Add key.
    3. Select a PuTTY-generated private key in .ppk format. If a password is set for the key, enter it.
  2. Run PuTTY.

    1. In the Host Name (or IP address) field, enter the public IP address of the server you want to connect to. Set the port to 22 and connection type to SSH.

      ssh_add_ip

    2. In the tree on the left, select Connection → SSH → Auth.

    3. Set the Allow agent forwarding option.

      ssh_choose_private_key

    4. In the tree on the left, select Connection → SSH → Auth → Credentials.

    5. In the Private key file for authentication field, select the file with the private key.

      ssh_choose_private_key

    6. Go back to the Sessions menu. In the Saved sessions field, enter any session name and click Save. The session settings are saved under the specified name. You can use this session profile to connect using Pageant.

      ssh_save_session

    7. Click Open. If this is your first time connecting to the server, you may get this unknown host warning:

      ssh_unknown_host_warning

      Click Accept. A terminal window will open prompting you to enter the username of the user on whose behalf the connection is being established. Enter the root username.

      If all the settings are correct, the connection with the server will be established.

      ssh_login

If you saved the session profile in PuTTY, you can use Pageant to establish a connection in the future:

  1. Right-click the pageant icon in the task bar.
  2. Select the Saved sessions menu item.
  3. In the saved sessions list, select the session you need.
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