How to create HPC Cluster based on Azure CycleCloud

Installing Azure CLI

• Login to the machine using privileged account.
• Download the latest build of Azure CLI:

• Windows download instruction and location:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-windows?view=azure-cli-latest

• Linux download instruction and location:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli-linux?view=azure-cli-latest

Login to the Azure subscription

• Run the command below to login to the Azure subscription:

az login

• List available subscriptions:

az account list --output table

• Change the context to a specific Azure subscription:

az account set --subscription "My Subscription"

Note: Replace "My Subscription” with the relevant subscription name

• Run the command below to verify the currently selected Azure subscription:

az account show

Configure CycleCloud pre-requirements

• From a command prompt, run the command below to configure a service principal:

az ad sp create-for-rbac --name CycleCloudApp-MySubscription --years 1

Note: Replace CycleCloudApp-MySubscription with a unique name, relevant to the target Azure subscription

• Document the command output (appId, displayName, name, password, tenant)
• From Linux command prompt, run the command below to generate SSH key pair:

ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -m pem -t rsa -N "" -b 4096