---
title: "Manage the provider configuration"
url: "https://docs.yugabyte.com/stable/yugabyte-platform/configure-yugabyte-platform/on-premises-provider/"
---

# Manage the provider configuration

Manage your on-premises provider configurations.

For deploying universes on your private cloud

Navigate to **Integrations > Infrastructure > On-Premises Datacenters** to see a list of all currently configured on-premises providers.

If you are using automatic provisioning, on-premises providers are created automatically when provisioning nodes. Refer to [Automatically provision on-premises nodes](/stable/yugabyte-platform/prepare/server-nodes-software/software-on-prem/ "Automatically provision on-premises nodes").

Before you can deploy universes to private clouds using YugabyteDB Anywhere, you must have an on-premises provider configuration. With on-premises providers, VMs are *not* auto-created by YugabyteDB Anywhere; you must create a provider, manually create your VMs, and then add them to the provider's free pool of nodes.

## Create a provider

Automatic provisioning

If you are using automatic provisioning, on-premises providers are created automatically when provisioning nodes. Refer to [Automatically provision on-premises nodes](/stable/yugabyte-platform/prepare/server-nodes-software/software-on-prem/ "Automatically provision on-premises nodes").

You can create an on-premises provider manually as follows:

1. Click **Create Config** to open the **OnPrem Provider Configuration** page.
   
   ![Create On-Premises provider](/images/yb-platform/config/yba-onp-config-create.png "Create On-Premises provider")
2. Enter the provider details. Refer to [Provider settings](#provider-settings "Provider settings").
3. Click **Create Provider Configuration** when you are done and wait for the configuration to complete.

After the provider is created, add your VMs to the provider's free pool of nodes. Refer to [Add nodes to the provider free pool](/stable/yugabyte-platform/configure-yugabyte-platform/on-premises-nodes/ "Add nodes to the provider free pool").

## View and edit providers

To view a provider, select it in the list of On Prem Configs to display the **Overview**.

To edit the provider, select **Config Details**, make changes, and click **Apply Changes**. For more information, refer to [Provider settings](#provider-settings "Provider settings"). Note that, depending on whether the provider has been used to create a universe, you can only edit a subset of options.

To view the universes created using the provider, select **Universes**.

To delete the provider, click **Actions** and choose **Delete Configuration**. You can only delete providers that are not in use by a universe.

## Provider settings

### Provider Name

Enter a Provider name. The Provider name is an internal tag used for organizing cloud providers.

### Regions

To add regions for the provider, do the following:

1. Click **Add Region**.
2. Enter a name for the region.
3. Select the region location.
4. To add a zone, click **Add Zone** and enter a name for the zone.
   
   Rack awareness
   
   For on-premises deployments, consider racks as zones to treat them as fault domains.
5. Click **Add Region**.

### SSH Key Pairs

Required for [legacy automatic provisioning](/stable/yugabyte-platform/prepare/server-nodes-software/software-on-prem-auto/ "legacy automatic provisioning"), to provide sudo access to VMs.

In the **SSH User** field, enter the name of the user that has SSH privileges on your instances. This SSH user cannot be named `yugabyte`.

YugabyteDB Anywhere will use this user for SSH access to the nodes in order to provision them. In addition, deselect the **Manually Provision Nodes** option (under **Advanced**) (the default).

In the **SSH Port** field, provide the port number of SSH client connections.

In the **SSH Keypair Name** field, provide the name of the key pair.

Use the **SSH Private Key Content** field to upload the private key PEM file available to the SSH user for gaining access via SSH into your instances.

SSH access

sudo privileges are only required for legacy automatic provisioning. Leave these fields empty if you are using the [YugabyteDB Anywhere node agent package](/stable/yugabyte-platform/prepare/server-nodes-software/software-on-prem/ "YugabyteDB Anywhere node agent package") to provision your nodes (recommended).

### Advanced

DB Nodes have public internet access

Disable this option if you want the installation to run in an airgapped mode without expecting any internet access.

Manually Provision Nodes

Indicates whether you are providing [SSH Key Pairs](#ssh-key-pairs "SSH Key Pairs") (sudo privileges) to YugabyteDB Anywhere for it to automatically manage VM provisioning.

If you *are not* providing SSH Key Pairs to YugabyteDB Anywhere, select this option.

If you *are* providing SSH Key Pairs so that YugabyteDB Anywhere can perform [legacy automatic provisioning](/stable/yugabyte-platform/prepare/server-nodes-software/software-on-prem-auto/ "legacy automatic provisioning"), *deselect* this option.

This option is automatically selected when you provision nodes using the [YugabyteDB Anywhere node agent package](/stable/yugabyte-platform/prepare/server-nodes-software/software-on-prem/ "YugabyteDB Anywhere node agent package").

Select this option if you are using [legacy fully manual](/stable/yugabyte-platform/prepare/server-nodes-software/software-on-prem-manual/ "legacy fully manual") provisioning to provision your nodes.

YB Nodes Home Directory

Optionally, use the **YB Nodes Home Directory** field to specify the home directory of the `yugabyte` user. The default value is `/home/yugabyte`.

Install Node Exporter

Enable this option if you want the Prometheus Node Exporter installed. You can skip this step if you have Node Exporter already installed on the nodes. Ensure you have provided the correct port number for skipping the installation.

The **Node Exporter User** field allows you to override the default `prometheus` user. This is helpful when the user is pre-provisioned on nodes (when the user creation is disabled). If overridden, the installer checks whether or not the user exists and creates the user if it does not exist.

Use the **Node Exporter Port** field to specify the port number for the Prometheus Node Exporter. The default value is 9300.

NTP Setup

You can customize the Network Time Protocol server.

Select **Specify Custom NTP Server(s)** to provide your own NTP servers and allow the cluster nodes to connect to those NTP servers.

Select **Assume NTP server configured in machine image** to prevent YugabyteDB Anywhere from performing any NTP configuration on the cluster nodes. For data consistency, ensure that NTP is correctly configured on your machine image.

## Next step

- Stage 3: [Add nodes to the provider free pool](/stable/yugabyte-platform/configure-yugabyte-platform/on-premises-nodes/ "Add nodes to the provider free pool")