User Guide
The Kyndryl Cloud Uplift user guide provides information about how to build, run, and access your virtual environments. It also contains information about sharing portals, projects, custom networks, automating VMs and environments, and managing your user account.
For information about additional tasks that administrators can perform, see the Administrator Guide.
Getting started
- Kyndryl Cloud Uplift overview.
- Access requirements.
- Kyndryl Cloud Uplift quick start: Building your first environment.
- Managing your account settings, like password, email address, etc.
- Viewing your current usage and usage limits.
- Accessing VMs (with your browser, published services, and more).
About environments
- Create an environment from a template.
- Import VMs, LPARs, and vApps into Kyndryl Cloud Uplift.
- Build a VM from an ISO.
- Run and shut down VMs and environments.
- View and change user credentials for VMs.
- Transfer files to and from a VM.
- Load an ISO file.
- Troubleshooting help.
- Save an environment as a template.
Automation and settings
- Copy VMs or add VMs from other environments or templates.
- Control the startup order of the VMs in an environment with VM sequencing.
- View and change VM hardware and SRA browser client settings.
- Use Schedules to automatically start, stop, or suspend environments.
- Automatically suspend an environment that isn’t being used.
- View and manage Docker containers.
Edit networks
- Learn more about Kyndryl Cloud Uplift virtual networks.
- View and change network settings for a VM and for an environment.
- View the Network Topology of an environment.
- View and edit VPNs and Private Network Connections attached to an environment.
- Connect an environment to another environment.
- Enable or disable public Internet access.
Collaborate
- Create a project to share an environment with other Kyndryl Cloud Uplift users.
- Share an environment with users outside of Kyndryl Cloud Uplift with a sharing portal.
Learn more
- Kyndryl Cloud Uplift REST API
- Developer tools including Jenkins, Vagrant, and Docker
- Best practices
- Understanding regions
- Knowledge base
- FAQs
- Glossary
