Login with your credentials and follow the instruction.
Subscribe to the product and click on Continue to configuration button.
Select a Region where you want to launch the VM(such as US East (N.Virginia))
Click on Continue to Launch Button.
Choose Action: You can launch it through EC2 or from Website.(Let’s choose Launch from website)
Optionally change the EC2 instance type. (This defaults to t2.xlarge instance type, 4 vCPUs and 16 GB RAM.)
Optionally change the network name and subnetwork names.
Select the Security Group. Be sure that whichever Security Group you specify have ports 22 (for ssh) and 3389 (for RDP) exposed. Or you can create the new SG by clicking on “Create New Based On Seller Settings” button. Provide the name and description and save the SG for this instance.
Be sure to download the key-pair which is available by default, or you can create the new key-pair and download it.
Click on Launch..
Instant Kubernetes: K8 VM with Minikube, Kubectl & K8 Dashboard will begin deploying.
A summary page displays. To see this instance on EC2 Console click on EC2 Console link.
On the EC2 Console page, instance is up and running. To connect to this instance through putty, copy the IPv4 Public IP Address
Open putty, paste the IP address and browse your private key you downloaded while deploying the VM, by going to **SSH->Auth->Credentials **, click on Open. Enter ubuntu as userid
Once connected, change the password for ubuntu user using below command
sudo passwd ubuntu
Now the password for ubuntu user is set, you can connect to the VM’s desktop environment from any local Windows Machine using RDP protocol or Linux Machine using Remmina.
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 above “Reset password” step to authenticate. Click OK
Now you are connected to the out of box Instant Kubernetes: K8 VM with Minikube, Kubectl & K8 Dashboard VM’s desktop 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, first Install 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 Kubernetes: K8 VM with Minikube, Kubectl & K8 Dashboard VM’s desktop environment via Linux machine.
To open the Kubernetes Dashboard, open the Firefox Browser from desktop.
Once the browser is opened, you can see the Kubernetes Dashboard on home page.
If you see 502 Bad Gateway or ServiceUnavailable error messagein the browser when accessing kubernetes dashboard url then please wait 5-10 minutes as it takes some time to start dashboard and other services for the first time.
Navigate to https://localhost in the browser to display all the APIs and other available URLs. After hitting the https://localhost URL in the browser, it will show you the SSL warning message. Accept the security warning by clicking Advanced and then Accept the risk and continue button.
The dashboard is accessible locally via RDP GUI interface. If you want to access the dashboard over internet , you need to open port 80 and 443 for the VM. This could be a security issue as the dashboard is not secured via userid/password and anyone with the VM IP address can access it. We highly recommended to access the dashboard locally via RDP GUI.
