General console

The general console is the Aquanode console running on top of GPU cloud accounts you already have. You keep your provider account and pay that provider directly. Aquanode adds the Environment, the Volume history, snapshots and the console on top of the boxes you rent there.

It costs a flat $20 a month seat. Aquanode does not bill GPU time on this line and grants no credits.

Providers

The console rents boxes on two providers today: SimplePod and Massed Compute. Each one is added only after a live run on it passes (create a box, write a file, delete the box).

How it works

Your provider keys live in a file on your own machine. They are never sent to Aquanode, never put in a browser, and never stored on our servers.

When you click a button in the console, Aquanode queues the request. A small program on your machine, started with aq connect, picks the request up over an outbound HTTPS connection, makes the call to your provider using your key, and posts the result back. There is no inbound port to open.

Set up

1. Install aq v0.8.0 or later. See Install.
2. Create a key at your provider, using the guide for that provider below.
3. Store it on your machine with aq accounts add <provider>.
4. Run aq connect and leave it running while you create, stop or terminate boxes.

The full walk-through is in Connect your accounts.

Key guides

Create a separate key for Aquanode, with the narrowest permission your provider allows, so you can revoke it without touching anything else. Permissions limit which actions a key can take, not how much it can spend, so a key that can create instances can still spend your whole balance. Neither provider documents a per-key spend cap.

• SimplePod: subaccount API key
• Massed Compute: Full token

Provider terms and key features change. Each guide links the provider page it comes from, so check that page before you create a key.