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Quick Start

Four paths through this documentation. Find yours, and the first few pages are chosen for you.

There are two ways to be onboarded, and they are genuinely different products rather than two sizes of the same one. RosettaCloud is for one person bringing a cloud account they already own. RosettaOps is for an organization that needs governance over many accounts and many people. The fastest route through these docs depends on which you are.

Pick the row that describes you.

You are Start with
One person with your own cloud account, wanting to run something Path 1 below
Setting up an organization, connecting cloud accounts for other people Path 2 below
Using an organization somebody has already set up Path 3 below
Evaluating whether the platform fits, before anything is connected Path 4 below

Path 1: Sign Up as an Individual

You have an AWS account of your own and you want environments you can launch, reproduce and share. There is no organization to create and no governance layer to deploy. There is a free tier.

  1. Sign Up as an Individual -- register on rosettahub.com or subscribe on AWS Marketplace, where the platform is listed as RosettaInsight. Both end in the same place.
  2. Connect your AWS account -- one CloudFormation template, two parameters from the email you receive. Covered on the same page.
  3. Launch Your First Formation -- pick a template, launch it, connect to the machine, stop it when you are done.
  4. The RosettaCloud Model -- now that you have launched one, the four things you work with.

Path 2: Onboard Your Organization

You are connecting cloud accounts on behalf of other people, and you need budgets, permissions and policy over them. This is RosettaOps, and it is CloudFormation deployment rather than clicking through a UI.

  1. Onboard Your Organization -- register, receive your UserUid and ApiKey by email, then answer two questions: who owns the accounts, and which edition you are on. It routes you to the right runbook.
  2. Follow your runbook -- one of RosettaHub creates the accounts, existing accounts, payer only, or existing accounts with functional accounts. Each is a short sequence of aws cloudformation commands in a fixed order.
  3. Account Access and Scopes -- what you granted, which roles were created, and what each one may do. Read this before the security review asks.
  4. User Onboarding -- how people then get their own sandboxed account, budget and permissions, automatically.

Before you deploy anything

The RosettaOps Model explains the three editions and the eight access scopes in about five minutes, and the runbooks assume you know which edition you are deploying.

What good looks like when you are done: accounts appear under Cloud Accounts, cost data starts arriving in the FinOps account, and new users can be onboarded without anyone writing an IAM policy.

Path 3: Launch Something

Your organization is already connected. You want a working environment, not a tour of the platform.

  1. Getting Started tutorial -- log in, find your way around the dashboard, and switch between perspectives. Ten minutes.
  2. Launch Your First Formation -- pick a template, launch it, connect to the machine, and stop it when you are finished. This is the one that makes the product concrete.
  3. The RosettaCloud Model -- now that you have launched one, the four things you work with: Cloud Keys, Formations, Sessions and artifacts.
  4. Sharing -- give what you built to a colleague, a group, or another organization, across accounts and across clouds.

Ready-made walkthroughs for common environments: Jupyter Lab, RStudio, a data science workbench, a Linux workspace, a Windows virtual lab.

If you would rather work in the cloud's own console

You do not have to use RosettaCloud at all. Federated console access signs you straight into the AWS, GCP or Azure console with the same budget and policy applying to everything you do there. See the AWS and GCP walkthroughs.

Path 4: Evaluate the Platform

Nothing is connected yet and you want to understand what this is.

  1. The Supercloud -- the idea the platform is built on, and why it is not a cloud management dashboard.
  2. Key Concepts -- the vocabulary, in one page.
  3. The two models -- RosettaCloud for what your people do with the cloud, RosettaOps for what RosettaHub may do on your accounts.
  4. The Landing Zone -- how the account structure compares with AWS Control Tower and Landing Zone Accelerator, and the one capability neither of them includes.

Then either Solutions for what this looks like in your sector, or Cost Management if cost is what brought you here.

Working Programmatically

Every path above has an equivalent that is not a browser. The CLI covers the full API surface, API keys authenticate it, and the CLI tutorials mirror the UI walkthroughs step for step, starting with Getting Started with the CLI.

Getting Help

  • Something is missing or wrong here: support@rosettahub.com.
  • You cannot log in, or you have no cloud account: contact your organization's administrator rather than us -- accounts and budgets are theirs to grant.