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3. Enable Use Case

Build content within your ACE-Box.

Set Up Your First Use Case​

Access Your ACE-Box Instance​

  1. Within your terraform/<your_cloud_provider> folder, run the following command to retrieve the output of the ACE-Box:

    terraform output

    You should see an output similar to this:

    acebox_dashboard = "http://dashboard.34.172.176.13.nip.io"
    acebox_ip = "connect using: ssh -i ./key ace@34.172.176.13"
    comment = "More information about dashboard credentials is printed out as part of the last provisioning step. Please scroll up."
    dashboard_password = <sensitive>

  2. Within your terraform/<your_cloud_provider> folder, you should have an SSH key generated that will allow you to SSH into the VM. Using the previous example, you can access it with the following command:

    ssh -i ./key ace@<IP_PLACEHOLDER>

Enable Use Case​

  1. Check if the ACE-CLI has been successfully installed with the following command:

    ace --help

  2. Use the ACE-CLI to install the use case:

    ace enable https://github.com/dynatrace-ace/basic-dt-demo.git

    Note: You can also define the use case in your terraform.tfvars to automatically deploy it after the ACE-Box gets deployed.

  3. Check the provisioning output. It should look like this, without any failed steps:

    PLAY RECAP **********************************************************************************************
    localhost                  : ok=28   changed=4    unreachable=0    failed=0    skipped=10   rescued=0    ignored=2

ACE-Box with Use Case Ready!​

Well done! Your ACE-Box now has a Use Case embedded in it!