Quick start for Astra Control Service

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This page provides a high-level overview of the steps that you need to complete to get started with Astra Control Service. The links within each step take you to a page that provides more details.

Set up your cloud provider

Google Cloud:
- Review GKE cluster requirements.
- Purchase Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud from the Google Cloud Marketplace.
- Enable the required APIs.
- Create a service account and service account key.
- Set up network peering from your VPC to Cloud Volumes Service for Google Cloud.
  
  Learn more about Google Cloud requirements.
Microsoft Azure:
- Review AKS cluster requirements.
- Register for Azure NetApp Files.
- Create a NetApp account.
- Set up a capacity pool.
- Delegate a subnet to Azure NetApp Files.
- Create an Azure service principal that has the Contributor role.
  
  Learn more about Microsoft Azure requirements.

Complete the Astra Control registration

Create a NetApp Cloud Central account.
Specify your NetApp Cloud Central email ID when creating your Astra Control account from the Astra product page.

Learn more about the registration process.

Add compute to Astra Control

After you log in, click Add Compute to start managing your compute with Astra Control.

Learn more about adding compute.