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Setup and installation of 'Rancher & kubectl for Unified Kubernetes Control' on AWS



This section describes how to launch and connect to ‘Rancher & kubectl for Unified Kubernetes Control’ VM on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

  1. Open Rancher & kubectl for Unified Kubernetes Control VM listing on AWS marketplace

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  1. Click on Continue to subscribe.
  • 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))

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  • Click on Continue to Launch Button.
  • Choose Action: You can launch it through EC2 or from Website.(Let’s choose Launch from website)

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  • 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.

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  • Select the Security Group. Be sure that whichever Security Group you specify have ports 22 (for ssh), 3389 (for RDP) and 443 (for HTTPS) 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.

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  • Be sure to download the key-pair which is available by default, or you can create the new key-pair and download it. /img/aws/minikube/key-pair.png

  • Click on Launch..

  • Rancher & kubectl for Unified Kubernetes Control will begin deploying.

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

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

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  1. 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

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  1. Once connected, change the password for ubuntu user using below command
sudo passwd ubuntu

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  1. 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

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  1. 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

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  1. Now you are connected to the out of box Rancher & kubectl for Unified Kubernetes Control VM’s desktop environment via Windows Machine.

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  1. 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.

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

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  1. 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

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  1. Now you are connected to out of box Rancher & kubectl for Unified Kubernetes Control VM’s desktop environment via Linux machine.

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  1. To connect to Rancher UI, copy the Public IP of the VM and paste it in your Browser as https://public_ip_of_vm and hit enter. Make sure to use https. Browser will show you the warning message. Click on advance, accept the risk and continue to login page.

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  1. To retrieve the initial password for Rancher UI login, Connect via terminal as shown above and run below commands.
sudo docker ps -a

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  • Above command will show you the docker running status. Copy the container-ID from the output of above command and replace it in below command.
sudo docker logs container-ID  2>&1 | grep "Bootstrap Password:"

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  1. Copy paste the password in Rancher UI and hit “Login with Local user” button.

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  1. It will take you to the Next configuration page. On this page you can provide the new password or generate a random password. Make sure to copy your new password. Do the other setup and hit Continue.

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  1. Now you are logged in to Rancher UI with default admin user.

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For more information, please visit Rancher Documentation Page

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