Cloud Manager provides a user-friendly interface to manage your infrastructure, user accounts, billing and payments, and to open and track support tickets. You can easily create Compute Instances, manage Kubernetes clusters, add backups to your Compute Instance, deploy Marketplace Apps, track event notifications, create Object Storage buckets, and more. Cloud Manager is implemented solely atop our public API, which gives you access to all our latest products and services.

In this guide

This guide provides an overview of the features and services available in Cloud Manager. Some of the topics that will be discussed are:

An introduction to each section of Cloud Manager, including links to related guides throughout our documentation library.
The location of commonly used Cloud Manager features.
Settings that might make your overall Cloud Manager experience better

Linodes

The Linodes section of Cloud Manager lets you create and manage your Compute Instances. Each Compute Instance in Cloud Manager includes:

Summary information about your Compute Instance, like CPU usage, IPv4 and IPv6 traffic, and Disk IO
Access to any of your Compute Instance's attached Volumes and the ability to create a Volume
Networking information and features, including the ability to add IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, IP transfer and IP sharing
The ability to resize your Compute Instance, boot your Compute Instance into Rescue Mode, and rebuild your Compute Instance
Access to the Backups service
An Activity Feed that displays any relevant events related to this Compute Instance
Settings that allow you to update your Compute Instance's label, reset your Compute Instance's root password, manage system usage email notifications, manage Watchdog (Akamai cloud computing's automatic reboot feature), and delete your Compute Instance.
Areas to manage disks and manage configuration profiles
Cross data center migrations

Volumes

The Volumes section of Cloud Manager gives you access to the Block Storage service. To learn how to create and manage Block Storage volumes using Cloud Manager, see our Block Storage Overview guide.

Object storage

The Object Storage section of Cloud Manager gives you access to the Object Storage service which is a globally-available, S3-compatible method for storing and accessing data.

To learn how to use Object Storage, view the Get Started with Object Storage guide or take a look through all the Object Storage guides.

NodeBalancers

NodeBalancers provides load balancing for your applications and services ensuring that they are highly available for users. To learn how to get started with NodeBalancers using Cloud Manager, see our Getting Started with NodeBalancers guide.

Domains (DNS Manager)

The DNS Manager lets you control and manage your domains. You can access the DNS Manager by navigating to the Domains link in Cloud Manager's sidebar.

<<CLOUD_PORTAL>> Domains

For more information on Cloud Manager's DNS Manager, see the following guides:

Longview

The Longview section of Cloud Manager gives you access to the system data graphing service. It tracks metrics for CPU, memory, and network bandwidth, both aggregate and per-process, and it provides real-time graphs that can help expose performance problems. The Longview service offers both free and paid plan tiers.

To get started using Longview, see Get started with Longview.

Marketplace

The Marketplace section of Cloud Manager gives you access to apps that make it easy to deploy and configure Marketplace Apps on a Compute Instance. Some popular Marketplace Apps are WordPress, Minecraft, and GitLab. We are actively adding new and useful Marketplace apps. When a Marketplace App is deployed, a new Linode is created and the appropriate software is installed with the configurations you provide.

See Get started to learn how to use Marketplace Apps in Cloud Manager.

Kubernetes (Linode Kubernetes Engine)

The Kubernetes section of Cloud Manager gives you access to our managed Kubernetes service, the Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE). LKE is a fully-managed container orchestration engine for deploying and managing containerized applications and workloads. LKE combines Akamai cloud computing’s ease of use and simple pricing with the infrastructure efficiency of Kubernetes.

To get started using LKE, see our Tutorial for Deploying and Managing a Cluster with Linode Kubernetes Engine.

StackScripts

StackScripts provide users with the ability to automate the deployment of custom systems on top of our default Linux distribution images. StackScripts are usually Bash scripts, stored in Cloud Manager, and can be accessed when you deploy a Compute Instance. Compute Instances deployed with a StackScript run the script as part of the first boot process.

To get started using StackScripts in Cloud Manager, see the Automate Deployment with StackScripts guide.

Images

The Images section of Cloud Manager gives you access to Images, which allows you to take snapshots of your disks, and then deploy them to any Compute Instance under your account. This can be useful for bootstrapping an image for a large deployment, or retaining a disk for a configuration that you may not need running, but wish to return to in the future.

To get started using Images with Cloud Manager, see Images.

Account (management and billing)

The Account section of Cloud Manager lets you manage your account's billing information and users, and to configure various account-wide settings.

You can manage the following account and billing settings in the Account section of Cloud Manager:

Password management

Cloud Manager does not support forcing password expirations. Forcing password resets on a schedule is bad practice from a security perspective. Current security research indicates that forced password changes do more harm than good. If you want to force password resets for users of your account, we recommend using a password manager for this purpose.

Events and activity feeds

Tasks performed using Cloud Manager or other account specific tools like the Linode CLI or Linode API will be logged to an individual Compute Instance's activity feed, or on your account’s Events Page. The events and activity pages are user accessible logs, or histories of events taking place on your account. They contain details regarding the most notable events affecting your Compute Instances, like reboots, shutdowns, migrations, and more.

For more details, see the Understanding Events and Activity Feeds guide.

My profile

The My Profile section of Cloud Manager provides access to various settings related to your account's profile. This area of Cloud Manager contains access to the following features and settings:

Changing your account's associated email address
Resetting your Account password
Enabling two-factor authentication
Enabling Third Party Authentication (TPA)
Managing trusted devices
Adding and managing public SSH keys
Managing LISH authentication methods
Adding and managing personal and third party API v4 access tokens
Creating and managing OAuth Apps
Akamai cloud computing Referral Program
Enable email alerts for account activity

Oauth apps

Cloud Manager supports the OAuth 2 authorization protocol. OAuth 2 allows a user to safely grant a third-party app permission to act on their behalf. This means that a user could authorize an app to access data and / or make changes to their Akamai cloud computing account and services that are exposed by the Linode API. For example, an app could create or destroy Compute Instances, manage a NodeBalancer, or alter a domain.

To learn how to get started with OAuth Apps see the How To Create an OAuth App with the Linode Python API Library guide. For details on the Linode API v4's OAuth workflow see the Linode API v4 documentation.

Manage email event notifications

To learn more about events and how to enable or disable email notifications for these events, see the Understanding Events and the Activity Feed guide.

Change the theme (dark mode)

Cloud Manager provides a way to set your preferred UI theme, including a light theme, dark theme, and the system theme.

Navigate to your profile by clicking on your username and select My Settings.
Within the Theme section, select your preferred theme from the available options: Light, Dark, or System. Once a selection is made, Cloud Manager's interface immediately switches to that theme.

Set the timezone

All events displayed in Cloud Manager are shown using your user's timezone setting. The timezone can be modified in your display settings.

Navigate to your profile by clicking on your username and select Display.
In the Timezone field, select your preferred timezone from the menu.
Click the Update Timezone button to save your settings.

Accessibility

Cloud Manager has been built with accessibility in mind. Currently, Cloud Manager is actively being developed to achieve WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

We have received much helpful feedback from our users regarding accessibility. While we have addressed a lot of your feedback, this is still a work in progress and will be iterated upon with time. If you have comments or requests regarding accessibility, let us know by filling out our feedback form.

Experience improvements

We're making improvements to Cloud Manager so that we can deliver a high-quality and consistent user experience across product families. These experience updates are driven by our new Akamai Core Design System.

This section will be updated as we roll out additional experience improvements to Cloud Manager. For a list of all changes to Cloud Manager, review the Cloud Manager changelog.

July 2024

In early July, we've made minor branding changes to Cloud Manager. As part of these changes, we've implemented higher color contrast to improve the accessibility of both text and interactive components. Review the screenshots below for a closer look at the changes.

Previous Design	Updated Design

Overview of Cloud Manager