Get started with Cleura Cloud

Welcome to Cleura Cloud basics!

Cleura is a European provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). We are a Swedish company with 70 employees and are headquartered in Karlskrona in the south-east of Sweden.

We provide 3 deployment models of IaaS:

• Cleura Compliant Cloud – for Regulated Industries
• Cleura Public Cloud – for Developers & SMB
• Cleura Private Cloud – for Enteprises

Out of our 3 cloud deployment models, Cleura Public Cloud is the only one that is open to the public and that you can start using right away. Here is how.

Cleura Cloud First Steps

Free trial

When you have activated our free trial voucher we will top-up your account with the specified amount. The cost of your allocated resources will first be deducted from the amount you have received from us as a free trial. When that amount has been used up, the excess of your consumption will be charged to your payment method.

Free trial examples

Example 1: Anna registered an account using our free trial voucher and received €50 topped-up to her account. She allocated cloud resources totalling €25 per month and was able to run those cloud resources, free of charge, for 2 consecutive months. On the third month and onwards, since Annas voucher had been used to cover the first and second months of usage, she was charged €25 for her allocated resources.

Example 2: Peter registered an account using our free trial voucher and received €50 topped-up to his account. He allocated cloud resources totalling €100 per month. At the end of the month, Peter was charged €50 for his usage. On the second month Peter was charged €100 for his usage since the free trial voucher had been used up.

Creating an account

Visit cleura.cloud/register, confirm your registration via e-mail, and add your account details and a payment method. When all 3 steps have been successfully completed, you will gain access to Cleura Cloud Management Panel and can start allocating cloud resources in Cleura Public Cloud.

Cleura Cloud Basics

Resource allocation & tooling

When your account is created, it is time to get familiar with Cleura Cloud Management Panel and all of the features of Cleura Public Cloud. Cleura Docs provides authoritative documentation for Cleura products and services, including Cleura Cloud, the Cleura Cloud Management Panel and tooling.

Pricing

Cleura Public Cloud is a pay-as-you-go IaaS and we charge allocated cloud resources by the hour according to our price list. When you allocate new resources in Cleura Public Cloud, such as a virtual machine, you will see its hourly (and estimated monthly) cost before deploying the resource. The same goes for cloud storage volumes, load balancers and every other virtual cloud resource found in Cleura Public Cloud.

Support

Customer service, documentation and tutorials are included for all Cleura Public Cloud users. For improved response times and additional technical support, we offer paid support plans.

Cleura Cloud Introduction

Free tutorials

We offer a selection of free tutorials on some common use cases such as Managing Cleura Cloud resources with Ansible, Heat and Terraform.

Cloud Training

Cleura Cloud Academy is a unique cloud training platform that combines tailor-made courseware and sophisticated labs to offer unparalleled open source cloud training. Our paid cloud course catalog is aimed at people with an intermediate to advanced background in systems operations, design, or development. Whether you are currently building storage, cloud, or container infrastructure, or you are building a platform architecture on top of those, you’ll probably find a course or tutorial that matches your needs.

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