Login with your credentials, provide the details here. Once done click on Continue.
It will take you to the Product details page. Click on Create.
Select a Resource group for your virtual machine
Select a Region where you want to launch the VM(such as East US)
Note: If you see “This image is not compatible with selected security type. To keep trusted launch virtual machines, select a compatible image. Otherwise change your security type back to Standard” error message below the Image name as shown in the screenshot below then please change the Security type to Standard.
Optionally change the number of cores and amount of memory.
Select the Authentication type as Password and enter Username as ubuntu and Password of your choice.
Optionally change the OS disk size and its type.
Optionally change the network and subnetwork names. Be sure that whichever network you specify has ports 22 (for ssh), 3389 (for RDP), 80 (for HTTP), 443 (for HTTPS) exposed.
The VM comes with the preconfigured NSG rules. You can check them by clicking on Create New option available under the security group option.
Optionally go to the Management, Advanced and Tags tabs for any advance settings you want for the VM.
Click on Review + create and then click on Create when you are done.
Virtual Machine will begin deploying.
A summary page displays when the virtual machine is successfully created. Click on Go to resource link to go to the resource page. It will open an overview page of virtual machine.
If you want to update your password then open up the left navigation pane, select Run command, select RunShellScript and enter following command to change the password of the vm .
sudo echo ubuntu:yourpassword | chpasswd
Now the password for ubuntu user is set, you can SSH to the VM. To do so, first note the public IP address of the VM from VM details page as highlighted below
Open putty, paste the IP address and click on Open.
login as ubuntu and provide the password for ‘ubuntu’ user.
You can also connect to the VM’s desktop environment from any local windows machine using RDP protocol or local linux machine using Remmina.
To connect using RDP via Windows Machine, first note the public IP address of the VM from VM details page as highlighted below
Then From your local windows machine, goto “start” menu, in the search box type and select “Remote desktop connection”.
In the “Remote Desktop connection” wizard, copy the public IP address and click connect
This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide the username (e.g “ubuntu”) and the password set in the step4 to authenticate. Click OK
Now you are connected to the out of box Gitness: Selfhosted, Private & Secure Opensource Github alternative environment via Windows Machine.
To connect using RDP via Linux machine, first note the external IP of the VM from VM details page, then from your local Linux machine, goto menu, in the search box type and select “Remmina”.
Note: If you don’t have Remmina installed on your Linux machine, firstInstall Remmina as per your linux distribution.
In the “Remmina Remote Desktop Client” wizard, select the RDP option from dropdown and paste the external ip and click enter.
This will connect you to the VM’s desktop environment. Provide “ubuntu” as the userid and the password set in above reset password step to authenticate. Click OK
Now you are connected to out of box Instant Gitness: Selfhosted, Private & Secure Opensource Github alternative environment via Linux machine.
To connect to Gitness UI, copy the Public IP of the VM and paste it in your Browser and hit enter. For the first time Browser warning will show up. Click on advance, accept the risk and continue to login page.
When accessing the UI first time, you need to sign up to create the first user. The first user created will automatically become admin user here.
On login page, click on Sign up link. Provide the sign up information and hit enter.
Now you are connected to Gitness UI with admin user.
Create new project or export your existing project here and explore Gitness’s features.
By default, anyone having access to Gitness VM UI can click on “Sign Up” link on login page or goto https://vmpublicip/register page and create a user. If you want to disable this behavior and want only admin to be able to create/signup new user, then follow the Disable/Enable User Signup page.
