From Alien4Cloud UI, select menus Administration > Orchestrators, then select
the orchestrator Yorc.
A page appears where you can select Location(s) on the left hand side :
Click on New Location. Enter a name: Hosts Pool. Select the Infrastructure type
HostsPool:
Click on Create. A page appears allowing to configure this location, select the
menu On demand resources like below :
To add an on-demand Compute Node, drag the yorc.nodes.hostspool.Compute component
on the right hand side cell,
and drop this component to the left hand side cell, to get this :
You can select the property shareable if you want to make this compute node shareable, so that different deployments could use this same resource.
Credentials don't have to be defined here. For hosts in a Hosts Pool, credentials are defined in the Yorc server configuration as described in the installation section.
Next step is to upload Components/Application templates from the Ystia Forge.