Setup and installation of 'Nacos Microservice Manager Suite' on AWS

This section describes how to launch and connect to ‘Nacos Microservice Manager Suite’ VM on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

1. Open Nacos Microservice Manager Suite VM listing on AWS marketplace

2. Click on View purchase options.

• 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.medium instance type, 2 vCPUs and 4 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), 3389 (for RDP) and 80 (for HTTP) 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..

• Nacos Microservice Manager Suite will begin deploying.

3. A summary page displays. To see this instance on EC2 Console click on EC2 Console link.

4. On the EC2 Console page, instance is up and running. To connect to this instance through putty, copy the IPv4 Public IP Address

5. 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

6. Once connected, change the password for ubuntu user using below command

sudo passwd ubuntu

7. 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

8. 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

9. Now you are connected to the out of box Nacos Microservice Manager Suite VM’s desktop environment via Windows Machine.

10. 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.

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

12. 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

13. Now you are connected to out of box Nacos Microservice Manager Suite VM’s desktop environment via Linux machine.

14. To connect to Nacos UI, copy the Public IP of the VM from VM’s overview page and paste it in the browser in the format http://public_ip/nacos. Make sure to use HTTP and not HTTPS.

NOTE: Make sure to use /nacos afer the public_ip of the vm in the URL. If you access it without /nacos in the url, you will get 404 PAGE NOTE FOUND error as shown below.

So the correct URL is - http://public_ip/nacos.

The default username is nacos.

For the first login, please provide any password of your choice. A new password will be generated based on your input and you will see a “successful password generated” popup message.

NOTE: Once your password is generated successfully, the login page will get refreshed. Now again login with userid - nacos and the password you generated above.

15. Now you are connected to Nacos UI.

For more information, please visit Nacos Official Documentation