Floating IPs on Nobus are static IP addresses that are publicly-accessible to FCS Instances in the same datacenter. Floating IPs are free when assigned to a FCS Instance. The floating IP association can be modified at any time regardless of the state of the instance in question. Floating IP’s as any other resources have their cost when kept reserved and not used. If you dont want to keep your Floating IP’s reserved for your project you may release them to the pool for other users which will also reduce your project costs.

When a Floating IPs is reserved but not assigned to a FCS Instance, it cost #1800 naira/month (roughly #2.46 naira/hour) due to the shortage of available IPv4 addresses.

Features

Floating IPs let you redirect network traffic between any of your FCS Instances within the same datacenter. Assigning a floating IP to a FCS Instance doesn't replace or change its original public IP address.

You can use floating IPs to create server infrastructures without single points of failure, but a floating IP alone does not automatically provide high availability. For a setup to be highly available, you need to implement a failover mechanism to automate the process of detecting failures of the active server and reassigning the floating IP to a passive server.

Implement a failover mechanism with floating IPs to build a high availability infrastructure.

Limits

You can reserve three floating IPs for each user account initially. If you get to the limit, you can increase your quota through the dashboard.
Nobus only support IPv4 floating IPs.
You can assign a floating IP more than one FCS Instance at a time.
Floating IPs do not support PTR (rDNS) records.

Quickstart

Create and Associate Floating IPs Disassociate Floating IPs Delete Floating IPs

Create and Associate Floating IPs

Goto Project > Network > Floating IPs

Click on the “ALLOCATE IP TO PROJECT” button. On the new window, select a Pool, provide description and click on “ALLOCATE IP“.

Associate the reserved floating IP address with the instance.

Once the floating IP address is reserved, we can associate it with an instance.

Option 1: Project > Network > Floating IPs > Select IP > Associate

Pick a floating IP, an instance and a port to associate.

Option 2: Project > Compute > Instances

Under actions, select “ASSOCIATE FLOATING IP”

Select an IP address and click “ASSOCIATE”.

Once you have at least one address assigned, you can reserve additional floating IP addresses in specific datacenters without assigning them to FCS Instances by following the link in the header text.

Disassociate Floating IPs

Goto Project > Network > Floating IPs > DISASSOCIATE
Project > Compute > Instances > Actions > DISASSOCIATE FLOATING IP

Assigned floating IP addresses are free, but disassociated floating IP addresses are not.

Delete Floating IPs

click the Project > Network >Floating IPs tab.
Click the More menu of the floating IP you want to delete and click Delete.
In the confirmation window, confirm the Floating IP Delete.