Go to your Controller dashboard and click on the Instances tab:
Click on Create Instance(s), and the Create New Instances view displays:
Select the VM Template and click Start. The Create New Instances view closes and returns you to the Instances view. You should now see the Instance in a Scheduling or Pulling State:
After the Scheduling and Pulling finishes, the VM starts on one of the Nodes and shows a Started State in the Controller UI:
You can now confirm the Instance is running from inside the Node:
- JSON output is available for scripting/automation using
anka --machine-readable
sudo anka --machine-readable list | jq
{
"status": "OK",
"body": [
{
"status": "suspended",
"name": "catalina",
"stop_date": "2020-04-01T21:30:59.798697Z",
"creation_date": "2020-04-01T00:00:13.656296Z",
"version": "base",
"uuid": "10c720eb-dcce-46f7-baa3-28bacef0ec0f"
},
{
"status": "running",
"name": "mgmtManaged-catalina-1585776660490226000",
"stop_date": "2020-04-01T21:36:11.742662Z",
"creation_date": "2020-04-01T21:31:01.055250Z",
"version": "",
"uuid": "dcbeb319-421a-4d30-8466-194eb7fa5f75"
}
],
"message": ""
}
Timestamp format: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3339.txt