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) and 3389 (for RDP) 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 Instant Kubernetes: K8 VM with Minikube, Kubectl & K8 Dashboard 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 Kubernetes: K8 VM with Minikube, Kubectl & K8 Dashboard 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.
