Add an Existing Server

If you have servers provisioned outside of your desired environment on Devopness, you can still connect them to your Devopness account and take the most of the Devopness infrastructure management features.

1. On Devopness, navigate to a project then select an environment

2. If there's no other server in the selected environment, just click Add Server

3. If a list of resource cards is displayed, find the Servers card

4. Click View in the Servers card to see a list of existing Servers

5. On the upper-right corner of the list click ADD SERVER

6. On the Cloud Provider drop-down menu choose VPS/Self Hosted

7. Provide the Public IP address of your existing server

8. Enter the SSH Port to be used to connect to the server

   note

   We do not recommend connecting servers that are already being used in production. Server's existing configuration will be lost and replaced by Devopness during the server setup process

9. Click NEXT

10. Follow the prompts to complete the configuration of the new Server

11. Click CONFIRM

    • If you see a message saying Error establishing a SSH connection to server, please verify if the IP address and SSH port used are correct and if external SSH connections are allowed on this server

12. After the Server is added you will be redirected to the Connect page

13. Find the Command to connect field and click Copy to clipboard

14. Log into your server as the root user

15. Paste the command that has been copied to the clipboard and run it

16. A message will be displayed in the terminal window when the server connect command is successfully completed

17. On Devopness, once the server is displayed as Connected, it's been added to the selected environment

Required Permissions

NOTE: To complete the steps in this post, the user needs to have the following permissions in the environment:

Resource Type	Permission
Server	Add

For instructions on how to grant user permissions in an environment, see Add team to an Environment