What's new

AI Model Hub

New Network menu in the DCD

Network File Storage

Cross Connect General Availability in the Frankfurt Region

Managed Kubernetes Versions

Advisory on CVE-2024-6387

Changes to AMD Opteron Node Pools

Documentation updates

Changes to Backup Service

Certificate Manager

Veeam Backup & Replication settings for Object Storage

What's new

IONOS DBaaS for MariaDB

Firewall Rule Changes Required for Backup Service Users

Grafana Access Enhancement for Sub-Users in Logging Service

Welcome to the previous release notes section of our documentation portal for IONOS Cloud. This section is dedicated to archiving previous release notes for the year(s), excluding the latest release.

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What's new

IONOS Telemetry API for Logging Service

IONOS Cloud Crossplane Provider is now available in the official Upbound Crossplane Marketplace

Advisory on Container Escape via runc (CVE-2024-21626)

API/SDK Authentication Token Manager

What's new

Sub-user Management for Logging Service

Changes as of April 2, 2024

As part of our ongoing documentation portal redesign, we have significantly enhanced its layout, appearance, and navigation to provide an unmatched user experience and improved visibility of our products and product categories. Consequently, you will observe changes in the product listing on the vertical navigation bar on the left side of this page.

We aim to improve the visibility of our functional products and make documentation easily discoverable. Our team has worked diligently to ensure these modifications align with the best practices in documentation portal design and user experience. The result is a documentation portal that offers our users a streamlined and efficient browsing experience.

What's changing?

Across the documentation portal:

• The new look and feel of the document, with refreshing color and font style changes, make the content visually appealing.

• Appealing banners differentiate between different documentation sections, such as User Guides, Developer Reference, Support, and FAQs.

• A new Log in tab on the horizontal navigation bar redirects to the DCD log in page.

• APIs, SDKs & Tools tab on the horizontal navigation bar have been renamed to Developer Reference.

On the landing page:

• Well-categorized and comprehensive sections for IONOS Cloud products and services: Getting Started, Developer Reference, Product User Guides, and Security.

• Card-based layouts for products:

  • Bite-sized snippets of information provide an overview of the product.

  • Clickable cards swiftly redirect to the landing page of the respective product documentation.

• Product Categories and Products:

  • Listed in an alphabetical order on the landing page and on the vertical navigation bar on the left side of this page.

  • To ensure sync with the newly designed product catalog on the IONOS website, specific:

    • Products have either moved to an existing product category or placed under a newly added product category.

    • Product names have changed.

On the vertical navigation bar:

The product and product categories precisely match the order displayed on the landing page, and they are perfectly synchronized with the product catalog available on the IONOS website.

Who’s impacted, and what about availability?

End users can view upgrades via the accessible public documentation portal.

What changed in the product categories?

The changes include the following:

Effective changes to product categories:

List of products with new names:

Product recategorization:

We are publishing changes in phases on the documentation portal, which means that it is constantly evolving. However, the product's functionality and features remain unaffected. We will keep you updated about all changes here.

What's new

Replication Enhancement

Enable Access Logging for Application Load Balancer

Enable Access Logging for Network Load Balancer

gRPC Support and WebSocket Support

Monitoring Service

Private Container Registry IP ACLs

Password Policy Manager

Kubernetes Version 1.27 End-of-Life

Access Object Storage from a Private LAN

Kubernetes Version 1.27 End-of-Life Notification

Auto-Renewable SSL Certificate Support

Network File Storage (NFS) Volumes for Kubernetes

Event Streams for Apache Kafka

Self-restore MariaDB Clusters from the DCD

VPN Gateway

In-Memory DB

CDN

Access and Manage the API Gateway

What's new

Contract-Owned Buckets in S3 Object Storage

Certbot Plugin for Cloud DNS

Advisory on CVE-2024-4323

Enhancements in Self Service Functionality Feature

Reverse DNS (PTR) Record Management for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

Unlimited Log Retention with the Logging Service

Advisory on Acronis Vulnerabilities

What's new

DCD Support for Cloud DNS

Self-Restore MariaDB Clusters from a Backup

What's new

Documentation updates

What's new

Documentation updates

Explore our guides and reference documents to integrate IONOS Cloud products and services.

Documentation Spotlight

Getting Started

Developer Reference

Product User Guides

AI Model Hub

Compute Services

Containers

Databases

Data Analytics

Network Services

Observability

Serverless

Storage & Backup

Security

What's new

What's new

Documentation updates

What's new

Cloud DNS

What's new

Renamed Virtual Server to Dedicated Core Server

Advisory on Downfall: Information Disclosure in Intel Processors (CVE-2022-40982)

MongoDB for Enterprise

vCPU Servers

Managed Kubernetes Versions

Documentation updates

Renamed Certain Sections in the Documentation Portal

Cloud Cubes is a Separate Section

What's new

Proxy Protocol Support for Application and Network Load Balancers

Advisory on Escalation of Privilege for Some Intel Processors (CVE-2023-23583)

Logging Service General Availability

Documentation updates

Cross Connect

Advisory on vCenter Server Vulnerability (CVE-2023-34048)

Advisory on AMD Disclosed Vulnerability (CVE-2023-20569)

The Data Center Designer (DCD) is a unique tool for creating and managing your virtual data centers. DCD's graphical user interface makes data center configuration intuitive and straightforward. You can drag-and-drop virtual elements to set up and configure data center infrastructure components.

As with a physical data center, you can use the DCD to connect various virtual elements to create a complete hosting infrastructure. For more information about the DCD features, see Log in to the Data Center Designer.

The same visual design approach is used to make any adjustments at a later time. You can log in to the DCD and scale your infrastructure capacity on the go. Alternatively, you can set defaults and create new resources when needed.

Core Functionality

The DCD allows the customer to both control and manage the following services provided by IONOS Cloud:

• Virtual Data Centers: Create, configure and delete entire data centers. Cross-connect between VDCs and tailor user access across your organization.

• Dedicated Core Servers: Set up, pause, and restart virtual instances with customizable storage, CPU, and RAM capacity. Instances can be scaled based on usage.

• Block Storage: Upload, edit, and delete your private images or use images provided by IONOS Cloud. Create or save snapshots for use with future instances.

• Networking: Reserve and manage static public IP addresses. Create and manage private and public LANs including firewall setups.

• Basic Features: Save and manage SSH keys; connect via Remote Console; launch instances via cloud-init; record networking via flow logs and monitor your instance use with monitoring software.

Compatibility

As a web application, the DCD is supported by the following browsers:

• Google Chrome™: Version 30+

• Mozilla® Firefox®: Version 28+

• Apple® Safari®: Version 5+

• Opera™: Version 12+

• Microsoft® Internet Explorer®: Version 11 & Edge

Next Steps

If you are ready to get started with the Data Center Designer, consult our Basic Tutorials. These step-by-step instruction sets will teach you how to Configure a Data Center and configure initial user settings.

Recommended for beginners

Selected user guides

This section lists the most commonly referred topics in the user guides.

What's new

What's new

Debian 12 Images

IPv6 General Availability

Updates

Configure Firewall Rules for IPv6

Flow Logs for IPv6

1. Access the DCD in your web browser by navigating to https://dcd.ionos.com.

2. Select your preferred language (DE | EN) in the top right corner of the Log in window.

3. Enter the Email and Password created during registration.

4. Select Log in.

Dashboard

Once logged in, you will see the Dashboard. The Dashboard shows a concise overview of your data centers, resource allocation, and options for help and support. You can click on the IONOS logo in the Menu bar at any time to return to the Dashboard.

Inside the Dashboard, you can see the My Virtual Data Centers list and the Resource Allocation window. The Resource Allocation window shows the current usage of resources across your infrastructure.

Selecting a data center in the My Data Centers list opens the data center. However, if this is your first time using DCD, you need to create your first Virtual Data Center (VDC). For more information on creating the VDC, see Configure a Data Center.

Menu bar

The Menu bar at the top of the DCD screen allows you to access the DCD features, view notifications, visit the help section, and manage your user account.

Your IONOS Cloud infrastructure is set up in Virtual Data Centers (VDCs). You will find all the building blocks and resources required to configure and manage your products and services here.

Create a new VDC

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Data Center Designer. A drop-down window will open up.

1. Provide the following information:

• Name: Enter an appropriate name for your VDC.

• Description: (Optional) Describe your new VDC.

• Region: Choose the physical location of your data center that will host your infrastructure.

1. Select Create Data Center to confirm.

Alternatively, go to the My Virtual Data Centers list and select Create new. You can also use the Start Center option to create new data centers. For more information, see Manage Start Center.

Data Center Designer Elements

You can set up your data center infrastructure by using a drag-and-drop visual interface. The DCD contains the following elements:

The square elements serve as building blocks for your VDC. Each element represents an IONOS Cloud product or service. Some elements are compatible, while others are not. For example, a Server icon can be combined with the Storage (HDD or SSD) icon. In practice, this would represent the physical act of connecting a hard drive to a server machine. For more information, see Set Up Storage.

Palette and workspace

The palette is a dynamic sidebar that contains VDC elements. You can click and drag each element from the palette into your workspace and position it as per your requirements.

All cloud products and services are compatible with each other. You may create a Server and add Storage to it. A LAN Network will interconnect your Servers.

Some elements may connect automatically via drag-and-drop. The DCD will then join the two if able. Otherwise, it will open configuration space for approval.

Right-click an element and select Delete from the drop-down menu. You can also select the element directly and hit Delete/Backspace from your keyboard.

Context menu

The context menu offers different options depending on the element. To see the context menu, right-click on any element. For example, right-click a Cube or a Server to update it.

Inspector pane

When an element is selected, the Inspector pane will appear on the right side of your screen. You can configure the element properties. For example, for a Server element, you can define its Name and Availability Zone, Preset, vCPUs and RAM.

This pane allows you to finalize the creation of your data center. Once your VDC is set up, select PROVISION CHANGES. This makes your infrastructure available for use.

Manage Start Center

The Start Center is an alternative option for VDC creation and management. You can access the manage the VDCs or create a new one from the Start Center window.

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Data Center Designer > Open Start Center.

The following are the available options in the Start Center window:

• The Start Center lists all your data centers in alphabetical order.

• The Create Data Center on the right can also be used to create new VDCs.

• The Region | Version are displayed for each VDC. Version numbers begin from 0 and are incremented by one each time the data center is provisioned.

• The Details, to the right of each VDC, displays all associated servers, VMs, resources, and their statuses. The status of the resources could be on, off, or de-allocated. Here, you can either:

1. You can select a VDC from the Data Center list to open it.

This tutorial guides you through generating and managing authentication tokens in the Data Center Designer (DCD).

Generate authentication token

In the DCD, you can now generate the authentication token to securely access IONOS Cloud APIs and SDKs by using the API/SDK Authentication Token Manager. Along with improved user security, the Token Manager offers a seamless user experience to generate tokens in a simplified way and use the token several times to access the APIs and SDKs. You can generate up to 100 authentication tokens and use any of these token values for authorizing access to APIs and SDKs.

To create a secure authentication token for authorizing to use APIs and SDKs, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Management > Token Management.

1. In the API/SDK Authentication Token Manager, select Generate Token.

2. Copy the Token ID and Close the token-generated window.

Authentication token attributes

• Each token has a Time To Live (TTL), which is the duration for which a token is valid before it expires and becomes inactive. Select a TTL value from the drop-down list. The following are the possible values:

  • 1 Hour

  • 4 Hours

  • 1 Day

  • 7 Days

  • 30 Days

  • 60 Days

  • 90 Days

  • 180 Days

  • 365 Days

• Each token consists of:

  • Creation Date: The date and time stamp of the token.

  • Expiration Date: The date and time stamp when the token becomes invalid depending on the defined TTL at the time of token generation.

• The generated token is listed in the API/SDK Authentication Token Manager screen.

• The Token Value is displayed only once upon generation, and you must save this value for future use.

• The token is valid based on the defined TTL field at the time of token generation.

Delete an authentication token

To delete an authentication token, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Management > Token Management.

2. In the API/SDK Authentication Token Manager, select the authentication token to delete and select the Delete option.

3. Select Delete to confirm.

The IONOS AI Model Hub is designed to simplify the deployment and management of advanced machine learning models, eliminating the complexities associated with hardware and infrastructure. This service hosts a range of powerful AI models that facilitate developers' implementation of sophisticated AI solutions without worrying about underlying hardware and operational overheads.

IONOS' AI Model Hub supports various use cases, including:

• Foundation Models: Utilize pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) and text-to-image models.

• Document Embeddings: Store and query extensive document collections based on semantic similarity.

• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG): Enhance responses by combining LLMs with contextually relevant documents stored in a vector database.

Features

The IONOS AI Model Hub Service offers a wide array of features tailored to meet the needs of modern developers:

1. Managed Hosting: Utilize AI models without needing to maintain the underlying infrastructure.

2. Security and Compliance: Keep your data secure and compliant with regulations, as data processing is confined within Germany. Your input data is not used for training purposes in any way.

3. Scalability: Scale your AI deployments seamlessly based on your needs.

4. Integration Options: Easily integrate with your applications using REST APIs, with support for popular programming languages like Python and Bash.

5. Diverse Model Offerings: Choose from various foundation models, including LLMs and text-to-image models, each capable of generating innovative and sophisticated AI outputs.

6. Document Embeddings: Store and manage document collections and perform semantic similarity searches to extract contextually relevant information.

7. Retrieval Augmented Generation: Combine vector databases and foundation models to generate enhanced outputs that are contextually aware, providing more accurate and helpful responses.

8. Token-based Billing: Pay for the services based on the number of tokens used, enabling cost-efficient usage and transparency in billing.

Concepts

Understanding the foundational concepts of the IONOS AI Model Hub will help you leverage its full potential:

Foundation Models

Foundation models are pre-trained on massive datasets to perform a wide range of language and image processing tasks. They can generate text, answer questions, and create images based on textual descriptions. With IONOS, you can access these models via APIs, simplifying the process of integrating advanced AI capabilities into your applications.

Key Points:

• Access various open-source LLMs and text-to-image models.

• Use models without managing underlying hardware.

• Maintain data privacy and comply with German data protection regulations.

Document Embeddings

Vector databases provide a way to store and manage document collections, enabling semantic similarity searches. Documents are converted to embeddings (vector representations), allowing the discovery of related content through similarity searches.

Key Points:

• Persist documents and search for semantically similar content.

• Use API endpoints to manage document collections and perform searches.

• Ensure document storage and processing stays within Germany.

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

RAG combines the capabilities of foundation models and vector databases to improve the quality of responses. By supplementing the inherent knowledge of LLMs with specific, contextually relevant information from document collections, RAG provides more accurate and detailed answers.

Key Points:

• Use foundation models together with document collections from vector databases.

• Improve response accuracy and relevance by incorporating additional context.

• Implement sophisticated AI solutions using a combination of querying and generation.

Components

API Endpoints

Use dedicated REST API endpoints to interact with various models and services. These endpoints are designed to facilitate the quick and easy integration of AI capabilities into your applications.

1. Model Management: Endpoints for retrieving model lists, querying models, and managing predictions.

2. Document Management: Endpoints for creating, modifying, retrieving, and deleting document collections and individual documents.

3. Querying and Generating: Endpoints for combining semantic searches with generative models to implement RAG scenarios.

Authentication and Authorization

Security is paramount, and IONOS provides robust mechanisms to authenticate and authorize API requests. Users must generate and use API tokens to access the AI services securely.

Data Privacy and Compliance

IONOS ensures that all data processing complies with German and European data protection regulations. Your data is processed within Germany, providing an additional layer of security and compliance.

Technical Support

IONOS offers expert technical support to help you troubleshoot and optimize your AI deployments. Whether you need assistance with API integration or model performance, the support and Professional Service team is available to ensure your success during German business hours.

Backup of Collections in Vector Database

IONOS does not backup the data saved to collections in the vector database. Please ensure that you can restore the content of your collections in case of deletion.

The IONOS AI Model Hub API allows you to access vector databases to persist your document collections and find semantically similar documents.

The vector database is used to persist documents in document collections. Each document is any form of pure text. In the document collection not only the input text is persisted, but also a transformation of the input text into an embedding. Each embedding is a vector of numbers. Input texts which are semantically similar have similar embeddings. A similarity search on a document collection finds the most similar embeddings for a given input text. These embeddings and the corresponding input text are returned to the user.

Overview

This tutorial is intended for developers. It assumes you have basic knowledge of:

• REST APIs and how to call them

• A programming language to handle REST API endpoints (for illustration purposes, the tutorials uses Python and Bash scripting)

By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to:

• Create, delete and query a document collection in the IONOS vector database

• Save, delete and modify documents in the document collection and

• Answer customer queries using the document collection.

Background

• The IONOS AI Model Hub API offers a vector database that you can use to persist text in document collections without having to manage corresponding hardware yourself.

• Our AI Model Hub API provides all required functionality without your data being transfered out of Germany.

Before you begin

Manage document collections

In this section you learn how to create a document collection. We will use this document collection to fill it with the data from your knowledge base in the next step.

To track, if something went wrong this section also shows how to:

• List existing document collections

• Remove document collections

• Get meta data of a document collection

Create document collections

1. Create a document collections

To create a document collection, you have to specify the name of the collection and a description and invoke the endpoint to generate document collections:

If the creation of the document collection was successful, the status code of the request is 201 and it returns a JSON document with all relevant information concerning the document collection.

1. Extract collection id from request result

To modify the document collection you need its identifier. You can extract it using:

List existing document collections

To ensure that the previous step went as expected, you can list the existing document collections.

1. List all existing document collections

To retrieve a list of all document collections saved by you:

This query returns a JSON document consisting of your document collections and corresponding meta information

1. Convert list of endpoints to a pandas dataframe

You can convert this JSON document to a human readable form using:

The result consists of 8 attributes of which 3 are relevant for you:

• id: The identifier of the document collection

• properties.description: The textual description of the document collection

• properties.documentsCount: The number of documents persisted in the document collection

If you have not created a collection yet, the field items is an empty list.

Remove a document collection

If the list of document collections consists of document collections you do not need anymore, you can remove a document collection by invoking:

This query returns a status code which indicates whether the deletion was successful:

• 204: Status code for successfull deletion

• 404: Status code given the collection did not exist

Get meta data for a document collection

1. Access meta data from a document collection

If you are interested in the meta data of a collection, you can extract it by invoking:

This query returns a status code which indicates whether the collection exists:

• 200: Status code if the collection exists

• 404: Status code given the collection does not exist

1. Extract collection meta data from request result

The body of the request consists of all meta data of the document collection.

Manage documents in document collection

In this section, you learn how to add documents to the newly created document collection. To validate your insertion, this section also shows how to

• List the documents in the document collection,

• Get meta data for a document,

• Update an existing document and

• Prune a document collection.

Add documents to document collection

To add an entry to the document collection, you need to at least specify the content, the name of the content and the contentType:

This request returns a status code 200 if adding the document to the document collection was successful.

List existing documents in document collection

To ensure that the previous step went as expected, you can list the existing documents of your document collection.

1. List all existing documents in a document collections

To retrieve a list of all documents in the document collection saved by you:

This query returns a JSON document consisting of your documents in the document collection and corresponding meta information

1. Convert list of documents to a pandas dataframe

You can convert this JSON document to a pandas dataframe using:

The result consists of 10 attributes of which 5 are relevant for you:

• id: The identifier of the document

• properties.content: The base64 encoded content of the document

• properties.name: The name of the document

• properties.description: The description of the document

• properties.labels.number_of_tokens: The number of tokens in the document

If you have not created the collection yet, the request will return a status code 404. It will return a JSON document with the field items set to an empty list if no documents were added yet.

Get meta data for a document

1. Access meta data from a document

If you are interested in the metadata of a document, you can extract it by invoking:

This query returns a status code which indicates whether the document exists:

• 200: Status code if the document exists

• 404: Status code given the document does not exist

1. Extract collection meta data from request result

The body of the request consists of all meta data of the document.

Update a document

If you want to update a document, invoke:

This will replace the existing entry in the document collection with the given id by the payload of this request.

Prune a document collection

If you want to remove all documents from a document collection invoke:

This query returns the status code 204 if pruning the document collection was successful.

Query documents in the document collection

Finally, this section shows how to use the document collection and the contained documents to answer a user query.

1. Retrieve document relevant for querying

To retrieve the documents relevant for answering the user query, invoke the query endpoint as follows:

This will return a list of the NUM_OF_DOCUMENTS most relevant documents in your document collection for answering the user query.

1. Decode Base64 encoded documents

Now, decode the retrieved documents back to string using:

Summary

In this tutorial you learned how to use the IONOS AI Model Hub API to conduct semantic similarity searches using our vector database.

Namely, you learned how to:

• Create a necessary document collection in the vector database and modify it

• Insert your documents into the document collection and modify the documents

• Conduct semantic similarity searches using your document collection.

This tutorial contains a detailed description of how to manually configure your IONOS Cloud infrastructure for each server via the Virtual Data Center (VDC). It comprises all the building blocks and the necessary resources required to configure, operate, and manage your products and services. You can configure and manage multiple VDCs.

It is also possible to configure settings for each server automatically.

Create a Dedicated Core Server

1. Drag the Dedicated Core server element from the palette into the workspace.

2. To configure your Dedicated Core server, enter the following details in the Settings tab of the Inspector pane:

   • Name: Enter a unique name for your server.

   • Availability Zone: Select a zone from the drop-down list to host the server on the chosen zone.

   • CPU Architecture: Select either AMD or Intel cores.

   • Cores: Select the number of CPU cores.

   • RAM: Select any size starting from 0.25 GB to the maximum limit allotted to you. The size can be increased or reduced in steps of 0.25 GB. The maximum limit varies based on your contract resource limits and the chosen data center. For more information about creating a full-fledged server, see Create a Dedicated Core Server.

Add storage to the Dedicated Core Server

1. Drag a Storage element from the palette onto a Dedicated Core server in the workspace.

2. To configure your Storage element, enter the following details in the Inspector pane:

• Name: Enter a storage name unique to the VDC.

• Availability Zone: Select a zone from the drop-down list to host the storage element associated with the server.

• Size in GB: Choose the required storage capacity.

• Performance: Select a value from the drop-down list based on the requirement. You can either select Premium or Standard, and the performance of your storage element varies accordingly.

• Image: Select an image from the drop-down list. You can select one of IONOS images or choose your own.

• Password: Enter a password for the chosen image on the server—a root or an administrator password.

• Backup Unit: Select a backup unit from the drop-down list. Click Create Backup Unit to instantly create a new backup unit if unavailable.

For more information about adding storage to the server, see Block Storage Overview.

Connect to the internet

1. Drag a Network Interface Card (NIC) element from the palette into the workspace to connect the elements.

2. To configure your NIC element, enter the following details in the Network tab of the Inspector pane:

   • Name: Enter a NIC name unique to this VDC.

   • MAC: Media Access Control Address field is populated automatically upon provisioning and cannot be changed.

   • LAN: The name of the configured LAN is displayed. To select another network, select a value from the drop-down list.

   • Firewall: It is Disabled by default. Select a value from the drop-down list to configure your firewall settings. For more information, see Configure a Firewall.

   • IPv4 Configuration:

     • Primary IP: The primary IP address is automatically assigned by the IONOS DHCP server. You can, however, enter an IP address for manual assignment by selecting one of the reserved IP addresses from the drop-down list. Private IP addresses (according to RFC 1918) must be entered manually.

     • DHCP: It is often necessary to run a DHCP server in your virtual data center (e.g., PXE boot for fast rollout of VMs). If you use your own DHCP server, clear this check box so that the IONOS DHCP server does not reassign your IPs.

For more information about network configuration, see Configure a Network.

Provision Changes

1. Select PROVISION CHANGES in the Inspector pane to start the provisioning.

2. Review your changes in the Validation tab of the Provision Data Center window.

3. Confirm changes by entering your password. Resolve conflicts without a password.

4. When ready, select Provision Now.

Next steps

After configuring data centers, you can specify a preferred default data center location, IP settings, and resource capacity for future VDCs. For more information about configuring VDC defaults, see Create a Dedicated Core Server.

The IONOS AI Model Hub is a comprehensive platform that empowers developers to easily implement advanced AI functionalities. You can enhance your applications' capabilities by leveraging managed foundation models, vector databases, and advanced retrieval augmented generation techniques while ensuring security and compliance. Explore the potential of IONOS AI Model Hub Service to transform your AI projects today.

Recommended Tutorials

Developer Tools

This tutorial guides you through creating and managing Users, User Groups, and Resources in the Virtual Data Center (VDC).

User access control

A new VDC in the Data Center Designer (DCD) is manageable by contract owners. To assign resource management capabilities to other members in VDC, you can add users and groups and grant them appropriate privileges to work with the data center resources.

Create a user

The User Manager lets you create new users, add them to user groups, and assign privileges to each group. Privileges either limit or increase your access based on the user role. The User Manager lets you control user access to specific areas of your VDC.

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Management > Users & Groups.

1. Select + Create in the Users tab.

2. Enter the user's First Name, Last Name, Email, and Password.

1. Select Create to confirm.

Create a group

The creation of groups is useful when you need to assign specific duties to the members of a group. You can create a group and add members to this group. You can then assign privileges to the entire group.

1. In the Groups tab, select + Create.

2. Enter a Group Name.

3. Select Create to confirm.

Assign privileges to a group

1. In the Groups tab, select a group from the Groups list.

2. In the Privileges tab, select checkboxes next to the privilege name.

Add users to a group

Users are added to your new group on an individual basis. Once you have created a new member, you must assign them to the group.

1. In the Groups tab, select the required group.

2. In the Members tab, add users from the + Add User drop-down list.

Benefits of user group assignment

When assigning a user to a group, whether you are a contract owner or an administrator, you can:

• Create a new user within DCD.

• Determine the resources that members of this group can access. These resources could be:

  • VDCs

  • Images

  • Snapshots

  • IP blocks

Add group to a resource

1. In the Resources tab, select a resource from the drop-down list.

2. In the Visible to Groups tab, click + Add Group.

3. Select a group from the drop-down list.

Assign resources to a group

1. In the Groups tab, select the required group.

2. Select the Resources of Group tab.

3. Click + Grant Access and select the resource to be assigned to the group from the drop-down list.

Enable or disable access for a resource

• To enable access, select the Edit or Share checkbox for a resource.

• To disable access, select the required resource. Clear either the Edit or Share checkboxes. You can also directly click Revoke Access.

Remove a user from the group

Users can be removed from your group on an individual basis.

1. Select the Members tab.

2. Click Remove User.

In the Account Settings, you can view and manage your account's personal and payment details, passwords, and security, enable , and access the resource overview, cost, and usage. The access levels depend on your user role. To manage your account, select your name at the top right side of the DCD menu. You can view your user name, email address, and contract number. In addition to it, the following options will appear in the drop-down menu:

My Customer Data

To view or update your customer data, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Your Profile > My Customer Data.

2. A My customer data window will open up. You can view the Email Address, a Contract Number, Company name, First name, and Last name.

1. Select Edit to update the Street address, ZIP, and City in the Address section. Select Save to make changes.

1. Select Edit to update the primary Contact email address, Billing email address and Phone number associated with your account in the Contact section. You can also add other billing addresses by selecting Add another billing email address. Select Save to make changes.

Payment Details

You can view and update your account's billing and payment details. To edit the payment details, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Your Profile > Payment details.

2. The Payment Details window will open up. You can set up the payment method by selecting Set up payment method. A Change payment method window will open up.

3. Select either of the following payment methods in Available payment methods to choose from how you would like to pay:

1. Select Save to make changes.

My Settings

To edit the settings, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > My Profile > My Settings.

2. A My Settings window will open up. Set the default values for Session settings, Data Center settings, Server settings, Storage settings, and IP settings from the respective drop-down lists.

Password & Security

To protect the IONOS Cloud account from unauthorized access, each account comes with the following security features:

Change Password

You can provide the password for your IONOS account yourself during the registration process. Your password must contain at least five characters and a mixture of upper and lowercase letters and special characters. To change the password, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Your Profile > Password & Security.

2. In the Change Password view, enter your Current Password, New Password and then Repeat New Password.

3. Select Change Password.

Set up 2-Factor Authentication

You can set up 2-Factor Authentication in addition to your login credentials. This authentication method requires an app-generated security code. Once 2-Factor Authentication has been activated, you can only access your account by entering the authentication code you receive from the Google Authenticator App. This method can be extended to hide specific data centers and snapshots from users, even if they belong to an authorized group. This feature is only available in DCD.

Set Support PIN

To ensure that the support calls are made by authorized users, you are asked for the support PIN to verify the account. You can set your support PIN in the DCD and change it at any time.

To set or change your support PIN, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Your Profile > Password & Security.

2. In the Set Support PIN section, enter your support PIN in the PIN field to confirm your identity.

3. Select Set Support PIN.

Resource Overview

You can track the global usage of resources available in your account along with the overview of usage limits per instance.

To view the resource overview, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Your Profile > Resource Overview.

2. A Resource Overview window will open up with a summary of all resources.

Cost and Usage

To view the cost and usage associated with your account, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Your Profile > Cost and Usage.

2. Your Snapshot, IP address, and Data Centers usage are listed along with the cost. You can select the downward arrow to expand each section and view individual charges.

The Password Policy feature in IONOS Cloud helps organizations enforce password security by defining a set of rules that must be followed when creating and updating passwords. This feature is crucial for safeguarding accounts and ensuring adherence to security standards. Always ensure that your policies are in line with industry best practices to safeguard your data effectively.

Features

• Customizable Rules: The password rule can be customized to your needs such as recommendations to have complex passwords to improve the security of user accounts. You can define criteria on the length of the password, whether or not to include lowercase and uppercase letters, numbers, and special characters in the password and the minimum quantity of each of these character types.

• Ease of Use: Using the or the , contract owners can manage password policies easily.

• Flexibility: Create, retrieve, update, or delete a password policy as needed. It is recommended to keep your policies reasonable to promote user compliance. On deleting a password policy, the IONOS standard applies for password management.

API endpoint

The Password Policy Manager feature is part of the Identity Management API and can be managed using the /{passwordPolicyId}/ endpoint. Further documentation can be found in the respective .

To access this API, you must authenticate requests using your Bearer token, which enables requests to authenticate using a JSON Web Token (JWT). From the DCD, .

Password Policy Manager in the DCD

Using the , you can create, update, or delete a password policy as needed.

Create a password policy

To create a password policy, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Management > Password Policy under Security.

2. Click Create password policy in the Password Policy Manager.

3. Enter the following details to configure a password policy:

• Description: Add a detailed description that explains the password policy. The length of the description must not exceed 1024 characters.

• Password length: Enter or use arrow keys to select the maximum password length. You cannot set a password policy that is less than 5 characters in length. For example, if the defined length is 9, the password must be a minimum of nine characters in length.

• Must contain uppercase letters [A—Z]: Select the checkbox if the password policy must contain any uppercase letters from A—Z.

  • Minimum quantity: Enter or use arrow keys to specify the allowed count of uppercase characters in the password. For example, if 4 is the quantity chosen, the password must contain a minimum of four uppercase characters.

• Must contain lowercase letters [a—z]: Select the checkbox if the password policy must contain any lowercase letters from a—z.

  • Minimum quantity: Enter or use arrow keys to specify the allowed count of lowercase characters in the password. For example, if 4 is the quantity chosen, the password must contain a minimum of four lowercase characters.

• Must contain numerics [0-9]: Select the checkbox if the password policy must contain numbers from 0 to 9.

  • Minimum quantity: Specify the minimum allowed count of numerics in the password.

• Must contain special characters [@, #, $, %, etc.]: Select the checkbox if the password policy must contain special characters. Any character apart from a—z,A—Z, and 0 to 9 is referred to as a special character.

  • Minimum quantity: Specify the minimum allowed count of special characters in the password.

4. Click Save password policy.

Update a password policy

To update an existing password policy, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Management > Password Policy under Security.

2. Click Edit to update the description or password policy details such as the length of the password or characters allowed in the password policy.

3. Click Save to reflect the changes made to the password policy.

Delete a password policy

If you no longer need a password policy, you can delete it permanently. To delete an existing password policy, follow these steps:

1. In the DCD, go to Menu > Management > Password Policy under Security.

2. Click Delete and confirm the deletion again by selecting Delete and use IONOS Standard.

The IONOS AI Model Hub API allows you to access foundation models, namely Large Language and text-to-image models. Currently we offer the following foundation models:

Overview

In this tutorial, you will learn how to access all foundation models hosted by IONOS. This tutorial is intended for developers. It assumes you have basic knowledge of:

• REST APIs and how to call them

• A programming language to handle REST API endpoints (for illustration purposes, the tutorials uses Python and Bash scripting)

By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:

• Get a list of all foundation models IONOS currently offers

• Apply your prompt to one of the offered foundation models

Background

• The IONOS AI Model Hub API is an inference service that you can use to apply deep learning foundation models without having to manage necessary hardware yourself.

• Our foundation models offering provides many state of the art open source models, you can use with your data being transfered out of Germany.

• Using the foundation models enables you to use Generative Artificial Intelligence out of the box.

Before you begin

Access list of foundation models

1. Invoke endpoint to get all models

To retrieve a list of foundation models supported by the IONOS AI Model Hub API enter:

This query returns a JSON document consisting of all foundation models and corresponding meta information

1. Convert list of endpoints to a human readable form

The JSON document consists of 7 attributes per foundation model of which 3 are relevant for you:

• id: The identifier of the foundation model

• properties.description (IONOS API only): The textual description of the model

• properties.name (IONOS API only): The name of the model

1. Select the model to use

From the list you generated in the previous step, choose the model you want to use and the id. You will use this id in the next step to use the foundation model.

Use foundation model

1. Apply prompt to foundation model

To use a foundation model with a prompt you wrote, you have to invoke the /predictions endpoint of the model and send the prompt as part of the body of this query:

The endpoint will return the result after applying the prompt to the foundation model.

Our Large Language Models support two parameters when querying:

• max_length (max_tokens for OpenAI compatiblity) specifies the maximum length of the output generated by the Large Language Model in tokens.

• temperature specifies the temperature, that is the degree of creativity of the Large Language Model. The temperature can vary between 0 and 1. Lower values stand for less, higher values for more creativity.

1. Extract result

The result of the endpoint consists of several meta data and the output of the foundation model in one JSON object. The relevant data is saved in the field properties. You can access it using:

Summary

In this tutorial you learned how to use the IONOS AI Model Hub API to apply your prompts to the hosted foundation models.

Namely, you learned how to:

• Get the list of supported foundation models

• Make predictions by inputing your prompt to one of the foundation models.