Future plans

[NitriKx]

I'll drop here my thoughts on the future plans for CloudRIG.

As Parsec become less and less supportive and open, I've started to talk with Rainway to imagine a migration. Their AWS AMIs are more and more deprecated (the CloudRIG AMI factory is on the way!), and they don't plan to update them as they dropped their AWS-managed feature.

I really want to open to other cloud-gpus providers as they become more and more competitive.

That would be also really great to have a mobile app that would do the same stuff, as Rainway supports android, ios etc. So starting the instances through a mobile app would allow to play anywhere without computer.

[NitriKx]

CloudRIG new wizard

1. Dashboard

• View the different computers and their running status
• Metrics about utilisation and estimated cost for each
• Total cost estimated

2. Create a new computer

• Name
• Description
• Specify the expected requirements
  • Propose use case (Gaming, Catia...)
  • Propose a list games / softwares that will help to choose the size
• Improved IOs ?
• Improve networking ?
• Region ? (EU)
• Define auto-shutdown (3h, 1d, 1w)
• Define windows/vnc password

3. Expected requirements vs CSPs

• Only AWS for the moment
• Determine the right instance type for the minimal requirements on the different cloud providers
• Choose criteria (region, price, pricing mode)
• Allow to select a region per CSP to view cost

4. Set your credentials for the CSP (if not already given)

• Procedure to get credentials
• Save in the Keychain / WCM
• Check access and permissions

5. Setup the computer

• Loading + logs
• Do not start it by default !!
• Setup user specific parameters

• Windows password
• VNC password
  --> Dashboard again

6. Start the computer

• Loading until started up
• Logging in credentials (VNC link)

7. Configure

• Change password
• Change storage size (no downgrade allowed)
• Reset the computer (start from scratch + allow the resize the disk on reset)
• Delete computer

8. Stop the computer

• Loading
• Show the estimated cost

9. Remove CSP

• Remove CSP configuration
• Warning if monthly billing

[pjz]

Moonlight support might be a good idea as well.

[NitriKx]

I've also added https://aws.amazon.com/hpc/dcv/ which seems great (at least it will replace VNC).