keyDistribution: Distribute public keys across nodes.

Description Usage Arguments Value Note

Description

The function distributes public keys across nodes so as to allow secure communication between each of the nodes. This is to enable doParallel backend to create socket-based cluster based on the nodes for parallel computation.

Usage

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keyDistribution(location, hostname, username, count, dns.labels = hostname)

Arguments

location

Location of the data centre to host the DSVM.

hostname

Name of the DSVM. Lowercase characters or numbers only. Special characters are not permitted.

username

User name of the DSVM. It should be different from 'name'.

count

If provided this is the number of DSVM instances to be created. If not provided the number of DSVMs created will be either the number of names provided or the number of username provided.

Value

No returned value.

Note

Note this function merely applies for Linux DSVM. In addition, it relies on SSH/SCP for file transfer so OpenSSH or other SSH tools are required if they do not exist by default in the system.


Azure/AzureDSVM documentation built on May 20, 2019, 2:03 p.m.