Guides and Tutorials

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Before starting using IMOD for managing your application in the cloud, you need to setup Cloud Providers (Infrastructure as a Service Providers) you want to use within IMOD. Currently we support the following public and private clouds
After setting up the cloud providers you are ready to start using the IMOD. Following are some tutorials and instructions for using IMOD.
- Quick Start Guide

Reference Guides

N-Tier Guide System Definition. Guide for writing System Definition Files for deploying and managing your custom n-tier applications in the cloud. Also watch the 10 minutes video on System Definitions & System Templates
Kaavo Web Services. Guide for using Kaavo Web Services for deploying and managing workloads in the public, private, and hybrid clouds.

Video Demos and Video Tutorials

High Level Value Proposition for Kaavo IMOD(3.5 minute video) For Higher Resolution Video Click Here
High Level Technical Overview of IMOD Engine and the System Definition File used by Kaavo's IMOD (5 minute video) For Higher Resolution Video Click Here
Tutorial of the online IMOD UI Wizard for Simplifying Complex Deployments (6 minute video) For Higher Resolution Video Click Here
High Level Overview of Benefits and Challenges of Cloud Computing(4 minute video). For Higher Resolution Video Click Here
Tutorial for beginners on using IMOD (6 minute video). This should be supplemented with Quick Start Guide for better understanding. Click Here For Higher Resolution Video
System Definitions & System Templates(10 minute video). This should be supplemented with N-Tier Guide System Definition for better understanding. Click Here For Higher Resolution Video
Overview of deploying and managing applications on Rackspace using IMOD(6 minute video). For Higher Resolution Video Click Here
Overview of deploying and managing applications on EC2 using IMOD(6 minute video). There is no sound in this video please checkout the subtitles for additional info.
High-level Demo(4 minute). For Higher Resolution VideoClick Here
Overview of IBM Cloud Support in IMOD (5 minute). For Higher Resolution Video Click Here
Overview of Eucalyptus Cloud Support in IMOD(5 minute). For Higher Resolution Video Click Here

Note: All videos are closed captioned, subtitles can be viewed in 45+ languages. If you are not sure how to view subtitles or subtitles in different languages, click here for one minute instructional video.

Using Custom Images with IMOD

Kaavo provides some custom images which already have monitoring and encryption agents installed on them, however, quite often users want to use their own custom images and OS flavors for running their applications in the cloud. In addition to monitoring and encryption agents, if you want manage Windows sever using IMOD you need to make sure that SSH support is installed on your Windows server as IMOD interacts with your servers over SSH. Linux servers usually comes with SSH support so no need to install the SSH agent on your servers. Please follow the instructions below to configure your custom images to be managed by IMOD.