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              • Configuring Health Checks
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              • About Access Logs
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              • About VPN Connections
              • About Virtual Gateways
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              • About Routing Configuration for VPN Connections
            • Tutorial: Setting Up a VPN Connection
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              • Creating a VPN Connection
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              • Getting Information About Your Virtual Gateways
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              • Deleting a Virtual Gateway
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              • Creating a Client Gateway
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              • Deleting a Client Gateway
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              • Using Route Propagation
                • Enabling Route Propagation
                • Disabling Route Propagation
              • Managing Routes Manually
                • Creating a VPN Connection Route
                • Deleting a VPN Connection Route
            • VPN Configuration Reference
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            • Tutorial: Setting Up a DirectLink Connection for a Net
            • Getting Information About DirectLink Locations
            • Managing Connections
              • Requesting a Connection
              • Getting Information About Your Connections
              • Deleting a Connection
            • Configuring a Connection with DirectLink Interfaces
              • Creating a DirectLink Interface
              • Creating a Hosted DirectLink Interface
              • Accepting a Hosted DirectLink Interface
              • Getting Information About Your Virtual Gateways for DirectLink
              • Getting Information About Your DirectLink Interfaces
              • Modifying the MTU of a DirectLink Interface
              • Deleting a DirectLink Interface
          • Getting Information About Prefix Lists
          • Reducing Latency
          • OUTSCALE Public IPs
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        • OUTSCALE Marketplace
          • About OUTSCALE Marketplace
          • Enabling or Disabling Two-Factor Authentication for OUTSCALE Marketplace
          • Seller Partner
            • Tutorial: Getting Started as a Seller Partner on OUTSCALE Marketplace
            • Seller Partner Administrator
              • Creating an Organization as a Seller Partner
              • Managing OUTSCALE Accounts as a Seller Partner
              • Managing Marketplace Accounts as a Seller Partner
            • Seller Partner User
              • Creating Your Showcase
              • Modifying Your Showcase
              • Creating a Product
                • Creating and Publishing an OMI Product
                • Creating and Publishing an Outsourced Product
                • Creating a Nuage public Offer (UGAP)
              • Managing a Product
                • Modifying a Product
                • Managing OMI Product Versions
                • Viewing Information About Your Sales
                • Allocating a License Key
              • Unpublishing a Product
              • Deleting a Draft Product
          • Buyer
            • Buyer Administrator
              • Creating an Organization as a Buyer
              • Managing OUTSCALE Accounts as a Buyer
              • Managing Marketplace Accounts as a Buyer
            • Buyer User
              • About OMI Products Pricing
              • Viewing a Seller Partner Showcase
              • Estimating the Cost of a Product
              • Subscribing To a Product
                • Subscribing To an OMI Product
                • Subscribing To an Outsourced Product
                • Subscribing To a Mistral LLM Service and Deploying it
              • Managing Your Subscriptions
                • Viewing Information About Your Subscriptions
                • Updating a Mistral LLM Service
            • Nuage public Buyer User (UGAP)
              • About the Subscription Process To a Nuage public Offer (UGAP)
              • Requesting an Estimation for a Nuage public Offer (UGAP)
        • OUTSCALE Kubernetes as a Service (OKS)
          • About OKS
          • Tutorial: Getting Started with OKS Using OKS CLI
          • Managing Your Profiles Using OKS CLI
            • Adding an OKS Profile to Your Outscale Account
            • Listing Your OKS Profiles
            • Updating an OKS Profile
            • Deleting an OKS Profile
          • Managing Your Projects Using OKS CLI
            • Creating a Project
            • Listing Your Projects
            • Getting Information About a Specific Project
            • Getting Information About the Quotas of a Project
            • Setting a Project as Default
            • Removing a Project as Default
            • Updating a Project
            • Deleting a Project
          • Managing Your Clusters
            • Creating a Cluster
            • Listing Your Clusters
            • Getting Information About a Cluster
            • Modifying a Cluster
            • Deleting a Cluster
          • Accessing a Cluster
          • Managing Accesses For OKS Users
          • Managing Your Worker Nodes
            • Creating a Node Pool
            • Listing Your Node Pools
            • Deleting a Node Pool
            • Node Pool Manifest Reference
          • Creating Load Balancers in OKS
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        • AWS Compatibility Matrix
        • Signature of API Requests
          • About Signatures of API Requests
          • Creating a Canonical Request
          • Creating a String to Sign
          • Calculating a Signature
          • Adding a Signature to Your API Request
        • API Endpoints Reference
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          • Cloud-Native Application 101
          • Designing a Resilient Infrastructure
          • Guidelines for Building OUTSCALE Machine Images
          • Industrialization of IaaS Platform
          • Keeping Your Operating Systems Updated
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          • On-Premises to Cloud Migration Guidelines
          • Recommendations for Ensuring Resilient Environments on the OUTSCALE IaaS
        • Cloud Leverage
          • Creating an Autonomous VM
          • Configuring and Using the Discard
          • Enabling Nested Virtualization
          • Generating an Ansible Inventory
          • Managing Legacy Type VMs
          • Migrating a Linux VM to the OUTSCALE Cloud
            • Installing the Packages for Linux Device Names
          • Setting Up an Appliance in a Net
          • Setting Up an NFS Server
          • Tiered Storage Setups - Hot and Cold Data
          • Introduction to cloud-init
          • Using cloud-init with User Data
          • Tutorial: Paginating an API Request
        • Third-party Software
          • Installing an NVIDIA Driver on a Linux VM
          • Installing an NVIDIA Driver on a Windows VM
          • Using DockerMachine with 3DS OUTSCALE
          • Crypto Cloud
        • Applications
          • Searching the Public Documentation From Your URL Bar
          • Wordpress
        • Querying a Mistral Model
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        • Support Mailing Lists
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        • List of OUTSCALE API Errors
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      • Release Notes
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  • Accessing the Metadata and User Data of a VM

  • Configuring a VM with User Data and OUTSCALE Tags

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