You may select to use one of the available clusters or create a new one. In this example, we will create a new cluster.

The following section describes how to create a new cluster.

Clicking on the + CREATE NEW CLUSTER button (see Figure 2 Clusters page) will redirect you to the Create New Cluster screen:

Figure 3 Create New Cluster

Choose a name for the cluster (one that wasn’t used before). Here we named it my-1st-regatta-cluster.

Please note that this document will refer back to the cluster name in later steps. If you decided to use a different cluster name, substitute it as appropriate in the steps throughout the Getting Started Guide.

Select the Provider from the available list and the Region from the drop-menu.

Please note that currently we only offer Google Cloud Platform as a Provider and the us_east as region.

Then select the Cluster Type. Once you click on the field, a drop-down menu will appear offering different cluster sizes (Figure 4). Please select the size required.

Figure 4 Cluster types

In this example we select the XSMALL cluster.

Click the CONFIRM button to complete the process. In response, you will go back to the Clusters screen and your new cluster will appear in the Starting status.

Figure 5 Cluster starting

Please wait until the cluster becomes available. The status will change from Starting to Running as seen below (Frame 6).

Figure 6 Cluster ready

You just created your first Regatta cluster. You can start deploying your database. This can be done via multiple ways of connecting to a Regatta cluster. The following steps will use the Regatta Cloud user interface CLI. Other methods of connecting to a Regatta cluster will be covered in subsequent sections.