You can connect any (public or private cloud) server into Nirmata using the ‘Direct Connect’ type. In this type of deployment you control which servers are made available in a Host Group. Auto scaling and recovery of hosts is not supported for this host type.

A container engine is required on your host. To install the Docker engine see the Docker installation guide.

Before connecting hosts to Nirmata via host-group setup, please review host readiness requirement.

To setup a Create a Host Group of type ‘Direct Connect’ by navigating to Host Groups -> Direct Connect -> Add Host Group. Give your Host Group a name and drill down into its details page. This will display an message as follows:

Install the Nirmata Host Agent using the key: <key>

To complete the setup, install Docker Engine and launch the Nirmata Host Agent passing in the provider type and Host Group ID:

sudo curl -sSL https://www.nirmata.io/nirmata-host-agent/setup-nirmata-agent.sh | sudo sh -s -- --cloud other --hostgroup <key>

If your server is a Virtual Machine, you can also save it as a template or image to create additional Nirmata Host instances from it.

Note: Remove the file: /usr/share/nirmata/conf/host_agent.id and the directory: /opt/nirmata/db/ prior to saving the VM as a template.

To view the Nirmata agent logs use:

sudo docker logs nirmata-agent