Setup and installation of 'KubeSphere for Cloud-Native Scalable DevOps' on Azure

This section describes how to launch and connect to ‘KubeSphere for Cloud-Native Scalable DevOps’ VM solution on Azure.

1. Open KubeSphere for Cloud-Native Scalable DevOps VM listing on Azure Marketplace.

2. Click on Get It Now

• 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. Make sure to use instance size with 16GB or higher RAM for swift performance of the solution.

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) and 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. KubeSphere is being installed and configured in the background. This process may take a few minutes. You can monitor the installation progress by running the command below in your terminal.

tail -f /var/log/cloud-init-output.log

6. You will see following messages in the logs. Keep monitoring this process.

   ### STARTED EXECUTING PER-ONCE SCRIPT ####
   ### INSTALLING KUBESPHERE. IT WILL TAKE FEW MINUTES TO COMPLETE ###

“Please wait for installation to complete »—> "

7. Once installation is completed, you will see below messages. System will reboot after this and your SSH session will get disconnected. Wait for few seconds and connect again.

#### KUBESPHERE INSTALLED SUCCESSFULLY ####
#### COMPLETED EXECUTING PER-ONCE SCRIPT ####
#### REBOOTING VM NOW ###

8. To access VM’s desktop environment using RDP via Windows Machine, first note the public IP address of the VM from VM details page as highlighted below

9. 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

10. 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

11. Now you are connected to the out of box ‘KubeSphere for Cloud-Native Scalable DevOps’ VM’s desktop environment via Windows Machine.

12. 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.

13. In the “Remmina Remote Desktop Client” wizard, select the RDP option from dropdown and paste the external ip and click enter.

14. 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

15. Now you are connected to out of box ‘KubeSphere for Cloud-Native Scalable DevOps’ VM’s desktop environment via Linux machine.

16. To connect to KubeSphere UI, copy the Public IP of the VM and paste it in your Browser. Hit enter. Browser warning will come up. Click on advance, accept the risk and continue to login page.

Note: If you see 502 Bad Gateway error message in your browser then wait for few minutes (10-15 minutes) and refresh the web browser.

17. On KubeSphre Login page, login with below credentials. On Next page, update your password.

    Usernam: admin

    Password: P@88w0rd

18. Or you can update it later from inside the User Interface. For that, click on “Change Password later” option. It will take you to the KubeSphere dashboard. Click on Admin dropdown from top right corner and select User Settings. On this page, select Password Settings from left pane and update your password. Once done click on Tick at the bottom as shown below.

19. Relogin with your new password.

For more information, please visit KubeSphere for Cloud-Native Scalable DevOps Documentation Page